This is a photo of my father's gift to my mother. Isn't it heartwarming? This is nothing new. When I was a kid he got me a gift (I even remember what it was - a dark red travel bag) and put it in a brown paper bag, stapled it shut, and wrote "TINA" on it in black marker. So I just thought I would share that special magic of the holidays that only Jack Langan can give.
Before and After:
Good morning! I had big plans of getting up early and all that, but turns out I was exhausted. Who knew? So Elaina woke us up. The kids were thrilled with their gifts. The big hits were Elaina's Cinderella outfit (as expected) and Andrew's Bumblebee Transformer (also as expected). Liam was content to eat wrapping paper, though Santa did bring him a few little things. After the frenzy died down, we had french toast, scrambled eggs, cinnamon rolls, coffee and orange juice. Yummo.
Childrens author Sean Taylor has refused money from winning the Nestle Childrens Book Prize 2007, because of their marketing practices.
Read the article here http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/news/author/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003685452
Why is there a boycott against Nestle? Because in order to sell more of its infant formula in third world countries, Nestle would hire women with no special training and dress them up as nurses to give out free samples of Nestle formula. The free samples lasted long enough for the mother's breast milk to dry up from lack of use. Then mothers would be forced to purchase the formula but, being poor, they would often mix the formula with unsanitary water or 'stretch' the amount of formula by diluting it with more water than recommended. The result was that babies starved all over the Third World while Nestle made huge profits from this predatory marketing strategy.This was in the 70's and this is when the boycott begain. Nestle is still the biggest violator of the WHO code.
For more information on the boycott against Nestle, read here http://www.babymilkaction.org/resources/boycott/nestlefree.html
I cant believe it. Yesterday was the Peace Preschool Christmas show. I just love it. The kids are so adorable. The 4 year olds (Andrew's class) did 4 songs. Eventually I will figure out how to get video from the camcorder onto the computer and I will put one of them up.
Tomorrow my mom and I are taking Andrew & Elaina to see the Nutcracker with the Orlando Ballet. I hope they enjoy it, and sit through it. I think they will because we have it on DVD and they like it. Elaina loves to dance while she watches it.
Sunday is our Moms Club Christmas party. That will be fun and its supposed to cool off, which would be nice.
I am all done Christmas shopping with a few exceptions. I still have to pick up the gift cards for the teachers gifts, which is easy enough. A few stocking stuffers and thats it.
Babys crying, gotta go.
