Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school. These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup -- they all die. So do we. And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: look. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and sane living. Think what a better world it would be if we all -- the whole world -- had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together. ~ Robert Fulghum ~

Monday, July 21, 2008

The new member of our family... Coley!!!

Patrick and I went away for the night in June for 24 hours of rest and relaxation. We however found a way to make our lives a little more exciting and busy. We got a puppy for the children!!! It wasn't the kind of dog we were originally looking for but it turned out to be much better choice. Coley is a cutie patootie cockapoo who can be an inside dog, only gets about 20 pounds, and does not shed!! Patrick and I never saw ourselves as small dog people but I now can surely see some advantages. The kids had no idea we were getting a puppy. Anna has been asking a lottttttttt lately about when are we going to get a dog, "the cats aren't fun!" I knew it was time to get a dog when one day I found her setting up an obstacle course for Missy and she was going to try to train her. For those of you who know Missy, you get how that is going to turn out. Missy has not wanted to be an inside cat since the day we got her and her mind was made up when babies started toddling around. Needless to say when we brought the puppy in the house the kids went crazy with excitement, except Alec. Alec was not sure of the puppy and was a bit afraid of him, but after a couple days he started coming around. Coley has been a really good dog so far. We are in the midst of trying to house train because we are determined to have a house dog! He seems very smart and very loving!
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