Mommathon

1) Go to Wikipedia

2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year.

3) List three events that happened on your birthday

4) List two important birthdays and one death

5) One holiday or observance (if any)


Here is my info:
3 Events:

1)1864- President Abraham Lincoln establishes the Secret Service to combat counterfeiting

2)1946- The bikini was introduced

3)1989-Seinfeld is aired for the first time


2 Important Birthdays
1) 1675 - Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials
2) 1996 Dolly the Sheep

1 Death:
1) 2002 Ted Williams, baseball player

1 Holiday or Observance: Independence Day in Venezuela

We started out the day at Maria's house where she always sets a beautiful table.

We didn't get to eat there though, we just hung out and socialized and the boys played.

We then went home so the boys could get a nap and then went to my mom and Jim's house. There we had turkey, stuffing, green beans, pumpkin pie, apple pie, apple salad, quiche and sweet potatoes.

After dinner the boys put puzzles together and roughhoused with Grandad.

Liam spent part of his afternoon reading to Butch. He read The Hat by Jan Brett, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat and To Market To Market, among others. The cat tolerated it.

Liam's school had their Thanksgiving lunch today and we got to sit with Chloe and her mom and brother. I am so glad that Liam and Chloe are such good friends since they are classmates and neighbors. (I think Colm has a little crush on Chloe as well.) :) We were also lucky that Nanny was able to eat with us, too. Liam's class made some very creative placemats for our dinner that had fall leaves on them and on each leaf was something they were thankful for. Liam was thankful for: Uncle Patrick and Aunt Kate, Claire, Erin, Mommy, Daddy, Colm, Nanny, when I take him to the park, stuffed animals and daddy's piggyback rides.

Every morning Colm has a waffle with honey or syrup and butter. The problem is that he wants to be able to visibly see that there is butter on every bite of his waffle, but the butter keeps melting. So I have to put butter on this waffle and then about two minutes later I have to reapply the butter on each individual bite. (He will let you know if you missed a spot.) Needless to say, we are running out of butter and quick!

I am not ready to let Liam start seeing PG movies quite yet, especially when I don't know why they are PG. He has seen one PG movie(Madagascar), but Happy Feet came out this week and he wants to see it. Well, I don't have time to go see it first and then decide if I think he should see it, but if you go to http://www.kids-in-mind.com/ they pick apart movies and tell you things that are in the movie that you would want to know about as a parent. A great timesaver!

I have strep-again! How is that possible!?! Sean says I am the only person he knows who can give themselves strep. I went to the doctor on Friday to get another strep test because my throat was hurting. The test came back negative which really made me mad because that means they aren't going to give me any meds. So, I took quite a few Tylenol this weekend for the pain and by today I was feeling pretty good. My throat hurts a little, but not too much. Then after dinner tonight I get a call from the dr's office saying they cultured my strep test and I DO have strep! I knew it! So now I have to go to the pharmacy tomorrow to pick up the meds that I really needed three days ago.