Meeting Maddy

So, on Monday we were at Uncle Rich's house in Taunton. My original plan included meeting Maggie and Maddy on a Girls Shopping Trip to Wrentham on Tuesday, but that had fallen apart completely, with Anne's back troubles.

So, instead, Maggie came over to Uncle Rich's house so we could meet Maddy. What a cute baby! Phillip and Maggie played Wii, so Phillip enjoyed the visit. Teresa pushed Maddy in the stroller while Maggie, Maddy, Phillip, Teresa, and I went for a walk. Maggie and I ran out to pick up pizzas, leaving Grandma holding the baby. She didn't mind. :)


Teresa really enjoyed Maddy - she even got in a little babysitting practice.

Teresa changed Maddy,


Teresa fed Maddy her bottle,
and Teresa changed Maddy again before they left!

Vacation Fun!

These are a few pics of the fun we had visiting with Aunt Anne, Uncle Alan, and Abigail over February Vacation. This first pic is what you get when you ask what is in those sandwiches -- "Cheese!" of course! :)

Poor Teresa... on Wednesday evening we were talking, and she says "Please just tell me we aren't having tomato soup and grilled cheese for lunch tomorrow!" --
oops.... we showed her the menu on the fridge, where that was exactly what was planned!!! She'd had that at Grandma's on Tuesday, and at Aunt Paula's on Wednesday! So we did make BagelBites, too, so she could have something different.

Anne has been having back trouble, so our visit was primarily to keep her from lifting, bending, stretching, or getting herself into trouble by doing too much. Boy, is it hard to keep a good woman down! :) But she tried to let us help.

We had a nice time. Looking forward to visiting again when Anne is up for more adventure!

Facebook

My experiment with facebook... I signed in last fall, tried it, and deactivated my account - decided it wasn't worth it. But this month, I reactivated my account, after Teresa said something about Facebook. Figured I should check it out before the kids do! I've been using it for a couple of weeks, and my opinion is...

Mostly, a colossal waste of time!

I got tired of the silliness, sending things to friends, etc. Maybe I'm just cranky, but I just clicked on ignore all the time.

Many of the same people I chat with on Facebook are the same ones I already chat with on Yahoo IM or on GoogleTalk / GMail. I don't need yet another thing to check to be in touch with those people. (you know who you are LOL!)

There are other people I've connected with that I had lost touch with. It has been nice to catch up, I will miss bumping into these folks. I hope you will check out my blog occasionally, and drop me an email or an IM once in a while! I've got a LinkedIn account, I find that useful for connecting, too - and not the nonsense.

While it's not quite the reason I'm stopping FaceBook, I do have some privacy issues - I know you can limit stuff to just friends. I did that, but preferred to REMOVE data than to leave it there under Facebook privacy rules. Didn't mean to create a stir, but I guess when I removed the "married" status and changed it to blank, FB notified my friends that "Linda is not longer Married". Hmmmm created a stir. Just the sort of issue I don't need to deal with.

It's too public for me to post stuff like "I'm going to head out of town for a week"... but it is a little inane to post "I'm going sit down and read a book now".... If you want to know my current status, feel free to check out my YAHOO IM status (which tends to be pretty accurate, or at least used to be Before FB!). But it's transient, not left around forever, so if I put somethign stupid there, it's not left forever.

So, that's the logic. Mostly, I spend enough (too much!) time on the computer as it is... I enjoy doing this Blog, and haven't done so in too long... partially thanks to Facebook. So, now I AM BACK! And I will have some great pics to post eventually, too....

Brrrrr

Ok, I am officially sick of winter. Tired of it. Ready for warm!!!!!!!!!!

We were scheduled to get oil today anyway... However, my furnace didn't realize that and sucked the tank dry overnight... BRRRRRR!!!! When I woke up at 5:30, it was 47 degrees in the kitchen, 56 in the living room. It was a little warmer upstairs! I crawled back under my covers until nearly 6, then called the oil company to ask to be FIRST on the list.

Kids had breakfast upstairs in the sitting room, with a heater on, got on the bus at 7 AM. Bob and I also had breakfast upstairs, then the oil truck came about 7:45. Jason came in and started the furnace, now Bob knows how, as well. At least oil was $2.429, not $5!!!!! Gotta be thankful for that!!!

I think it's supposed to warm up soon. I hope so.