Its a Feis-tival
Yesterday, Hannah had her first Feis (pronounced fesh), an Irish Dance competition. We were up at 5 a.m. to brave the traffic and crowds we knew would be lining up at the Queen City Feis in Cincinnati. We got there in plenty of time (6:30a.m.) for our 7:00 registration. We managed to push our way […]
English is hard….
Hannah was telling me about the list of items the teacher requested for a granola recipe. “It says shelled sunflower seeds but I think she means unshelled.” “Oh, so she wants the shells on?” I asked. “No, shells off.” she replied. “Shelled, means shells off sweetie.” “Oh” she said, but she had that look on […]
I think this is better…
We started the day by giving Hannah her birthday present from us and then we did the regular Saturday morning drill, guitar lessons, dance lessons and errands. In between all that we bought Hannah a present from Noah and then just tried to make our errands fun while killing time till her party. So what […]
Parenting Reverse Psychology
My daughter is about to celebrate her 9th birthday and I know this is going to cause some issues with the 12 year old son who thinks she gets too much attention already. (They get equal attention but you know how kids are). So, this morning I attempted a preemptive strike with individual discussions with […]
Our President Controls Oil Prices!
I was listening to Bob and Tom this morning and they were able to interview Senator Hillary Clinton. I have to say it was informative because she let the entire listening audience know that when George Bush was elected, oil was $20 a barrel and now it’s $120 a barrel. I am sure he (George […]
You gotta love the Irish!
From a recent email: We in Ireland cannot figure out why you are even bothering to hold an election. On one side, you have a bitch who is a lawyer, married to a lawyer, … and a lawyer who is married to a bitch who is a lawyer. On the other side, you have a […]
Happy SPD!
It is my custom to fly the flag of Ireland and the Green and Red of Mayo (the county of my Mum’s birth) today but since moving into the new house, I have not had the chance to put up any type of flag flying device. This year I will just have to fly them […]
1 week, 6 days, 17 hours, and 17 minutes
In case you were wondering, that is the amount of time it takes to accumulate 5000 SPAM email messages in your spam folder. Well, thats how long it took me. Would love to hear how long it takes somebody else.
A great email in broken English….
If any of you have gone through the public photos on my site, you may have stumbled across the pictures of the World’s Best Chicken, a little roasted chicken place in Castelvolturno, Italy (near Naples). Well today, I got an email from Giuseppe (Peppe) who owns the restaurant that had just a few words in […]
Only the French…
I don’t write this stuff. I found this one on Reuters. Cemetery full, mayor tells locals not to die “BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) – The mayor of a village in southwest France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them. It added: […]
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