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jflewis I'm a certified elementary and middle school teacher, the wife of new author J.F. Lewis, and the mother of two adorable boys with severe nut allergies. My hobbies include web design, reading, writing, scrapbooking, needlepoint, and playing violin (badly). |
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7:44am, Mar 16, 2008
Okay, so maybe that wasn't the best title for this blog. OmegaCon has been great- really fantastic for a first-year convention, and though there were a few bumps on Friday, it's chugging right along. I don't feel sold out as a fan, as a parent, Read more...
5:28pm, Mar 2, 2008
For everyone out there who's tired of angst-ridden vampires who mope about wallowing in their undeath, my dh has written an awesome urban fantasy entitled STAKED. Here's the SFWA Press release: www.sfwa.org/pressbook/08/0302a-Lewis-Staked.html. Read more...
3:34pm, Feb 26, 2008
My grandma recently gave my little ones each $2 for their piggy banks. My six year old accepted happily, but my four year old frowned. "My piggy doesn't eat paper," he said, "my piggy only eats metal monies." So she swapped Read more...
3:14pm, Feb 25, 2008
I'm borrowing a laptop from my four year old. Need I say more? (I could borrow one from my six year old, but he just has to feed his Webkinz.) Sometimes I wonder how our tech-savvy kids will turn out. They're part of the first generation to Read more...
3:14pm, Feb 25, 2008
My laptop is dead. :( The power-in port no longer accepts power, and it's not the cable, either. And for the cost of fixing that on a four year old laptop... it's a better investment to get a new one. I got online today and did a bunch of Read more...
Comment From:
jflewis
on 10:16am, Feb 28, 2008
Oh, me too! My new laptop is supposed to come today, so I am sitting home waiting on UPS. Being able to swap out the batteries in the old one was a lifesaver... I'd never have been able to do my web updates without it!
10:18am, Feb 13, 2008
Well, we finally found out last Thursday what had been plaguing my four year old for most of a month. He'd run a 102 degree fever, be sick for a couple of days, seem to get well, go back to school, and a couple of days later it'd start all Read more...
Comment From:
mclairch
on 5:43pm, Feb 14, 2008
Ug, insurance companies. I'm nervous 'cause we just switched plans where we have to pay totally out of pocket until that nasty deductible is reached as well. So far we've yet to see any of the bills. They're like time bombs out there waiting to be dropped on my front porch!
Comment From:
ChristinaBZUNY
on 11:02am, Feb 20, 2008
WOW ... you just diagnosed my son! Seriously ... we have been dealing with this for 3 weeks now. He just finished with something that truly resembled the flu (vomitting and diarrhea) and passed it onto the whole family. But he has had the runny nose, nothing else ... high fevers (103.8, could only get it down to 101.5 with medication), followed by good days, then something new would pop up. I thought I was going insane. Luckily, we have this week off from school and we are staying out of the mainstream. I have disinfected my hosue to extremes and he seems to be doing GREAT (2nd day in a row ... I am hoping by Monday, he will have had lots of time to build back up that white cell count). If not ... we will be following your footsteps to the doctor. :)
Comment From:
jflewis
on 3:41pm, Feb 26, 2008
My kids have finally gotten over it, and so have I, as far as I can tell. (Now if I can just prevent relapses...) Christina, I hope your little one is better as well! Mclairch, you're one up on us; we have to pay before we can even leave the doctor's office... I never appreciated how much insurance helped with the cost of health care until I had to cut that first $200+ check!
8:02am, Feb 7, 2008
Dh has logged onto my blog and has been reminded that I don't want cut flowers... and so I get to pick out an heirloom shrub, tree, or bush again this year. The question is: what kind should I get? I've got a flowerbed full of rosebushes Read more...
Comment From:
hesken
on 9:36pm, Feb 7, 2008
Sorry, I have no suggestions but am amazed by your collection of flowers. And the fact you ask for plants instead of cut flowers is a great idea ... a great "green" gift. (didn't mean to insert the pun.)
Comment From:
ToniGRBZ
on 9:55pm, Feb 7, 2008
Hmmmm... so many options! Do you have a place for Wisteria there? I just love the scent of that in bloom. One of these days, I hope to have a Wisteria vine... (and a place to put it!)
Comment From:
AuntMaryAnn
on 11:01am, Feb 8, 2008
Wisteria is gorgeous, but has to be pruned regularly or it will take over. My mom called it kudzu with flowers. Forsythia. Get a forsythia.
7:56am, Feb 7, 2008
I don't know about the rest of you, but I can't wait to file my taxes! I've been looking forward to a modest refund since mid-November, almost guaranteed because we have them take out a bit extra throughout the year. And now it's February and Read more...
Comment From:
jbmfour
on 3:37pm, Feb 8, 2008
go for the accountant! we live out of state so can't help you but it really is a good idea, in my opinion.
Comment From:
jflewis
on 10:01am, Feb 13, 2008
Whew... the form I needed finally came and I got all our taxes done. I used TaxAct online, which I highly recommend- it's cheap, it's user-friendly, and it has a question and answer format that I can manage even with all our form 1099s. With e-file, it's ten days to rebate time!
9:32pm, Feb 2, 2008
Snip! We just cut more than ten inches off my hair- enough to send to Locks of Love. (Yes, I still have "long" hair by today's standards.... if you click "read more" you can see my before/after photos.) Dh has always liked Read more...
Comment From:
coenwulfe
on 12:13am, Feb 3, 2008
Oh no! While an extremely worth cause, who will we get to play the part of Galadriel now?! *grin* Can't wait to see it in person. :)
Comment From:
red02
on 7:00pm, Feb 3, 2008
OH! I think that is awesome!! I wished before I had cut my hair when it was below my waistline that I could have given it to the locks of love. Back, then though I did not know about it.. Your hair is still very long and beautiful.. Congrats...Cant wait to see it in person!!!
8:37am, Feb 1, 2008
Well, it's Friday. Spelling test day for my first grader. We've been working on his words all week, literally drilling them in every spare second... and he still hasn't got them all. Maybe he's not a visual type person, but that completely Read more...
Comment From:
Uncle-Orb
on 9:45am, Feb 8, 2008
Don't know that I have a workable suggestion other than what you're doing. I was always an abnormally above my supposed 'level' reader once I started, so the words came easily to me. My suggestion is to see if you can find something he *wants* to read, and see if you can expand his interests outward. Nothing works, IMHO, as well to increase vocabulary as simply reading.
Comment From:
jflewis
on 10:04am, Feb 13, 2008
You know, his reading has really picked up over the last few months- I think he'll be able to manage Encyclopedia Brown soon- but his spelling just isn't keeping pace with his reading. He can read his spelling words just fine, but when he goes to write them, there are extra letters in there that only make sense to him, KWIM?
my piggy likes exactly what your piggy likes - send those checks MY WAY!
LOL! A truer description of how banks (piggy or otherwise) work I have never seen!
It is so cute how little kids' minds work. Sounds rational to me!