The social butterfly is what I affectionately call my daughter.  All her life, she has enjoyed interacting with people and getting involved in different activities.  Well this year is no different and she has so much on her plate that she has enrolled in and other things that she wants to enroll in, that I am constantly wondering how she is going to fit homework in her busy schedule.  So far this year she has signed up for drama club, running club, track and field, choir, and violin.  Today she will be trying out for honor choir and she has been bugging me to enroll her in piano lessons.  I always knew that she would be the type to try to get involved with everything, but this year I think she has gone a little overboard.  Oh well, your only 9 once right??

I bet you can all tell what this post is going to be about.  Yes, only three months left until Christmas day!!  Have you started shopping yet?  I haven’t and this is the reason for this post.  I am starting to get a little anxious.  I do this to myself every year.  You would think that I would have learned my lesson of not putting this off.  But I haven’t.  I have visions of seeing myself standing in huge line ups on December 24.  I know the shopping will all get done.  It always does.  I just hate the feeling of knowing it’s looming ahead of me and knowing that I have no interest in even starting Christmas shopping.  Are there any other Grinch’s out there like me?

Ever since I have began my home crafting business, I have been checking out other sites that are quite similar to mine. A few of them I have noticed have a shopping cart placed on their site. I think with this type of ecommerce software prominently displayed on their site, they would have a greater advantage of attracting sales then someone without this type of software. So, when I have more crafts to display on a website, I will definitely be adding some type of Shopping cart software to enhance my business sales.

What this type of software does for any company is it gives any potential customer the option of ordering your product or service directly off your site. The great thing about this is that if you make your ordering practices easy for your customers they are more apt to purchase from your site than if they had to look around for your ordering policies. This gives any website the advantage over one that doesn’t have any, as any online customer prefers to have easy access to ordering a desired product.

Yesterday she explained to her teacher that she is left handed and asked her if that would be a problem for her to learn to play the violin.  The teacher informed her that although they don’t have any left handed violins in the school, she didn’t see this as a problem as she has taught many left handed students over the years.  This made Kara so happy.  The teacher told her that all she had to do was tweak some of the strings to compensate for this.  So…. I guess my daughter’s wish will come true this year and she will be able to join something that she has been wanted to do for the past two years.

For the past couple of weeks, I have been trying to figure out why my son is getting so many holes in his socks.  Seriously folks he is ruining every pair of socks that I give him to put on his feet.  I figured it out!  When he goes to the playground, he is kicking off his shoes and playing in his sock feet.  So, all the rocks are getting into the fibers and eating away at his socks.  Going barefoot is OK in the summer, but now that it’s fall I think I’m going to have to break him of this habit.  This is starting to cost me some cash.  Although I do have an older son, I have never gone through some of the stuff that I go through with this little guy.  You know the saying boys will be boys?  Well in this case, he is the definition of BOY!  Good luck to all you mother’s out there of “Boys”.

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My daughter really wants to join the violin and ukulele clubs.  But, there could be a problem that we all kind of forgot about.  She is left handed.  And all of the musical instruments that they have in their school are made for right handed students.  Last week she began ukulele in her music class and what the teacher did was get her to flip the instrument.  This is fine for in class lessons, but I’m not sure how she will make out when trying to play it professionally.  With the violin there isn’t this option.  So, I have told her to discuss it with her teacher and we will see what she says.  The shame of this all is that my daughter has been talking about the violin for the past couple of years and I know she will be really disappointed if she is unable to participate.  But, hopefully the school or we can do something that will enable her to play.

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On Tuesday my husband’s father went out and got himself a dog.  The kids were so excited about this and wanted to go up right away to meet “Ruffles”.  So we went up Wednesday evening to meet this dog.  Unfortunately for the kids, they did not have a very good visit.  “Ruffles” had been abused by kids and when he seen my kids, to put it mildly, he was not happy to see them.  I felt so bad about this.  My father-in-law talked to his vet about this problem to see if there is anything he can do with the dog to get him to like the kids better.  The vet gave him some ideas and we will be going back up later today to see if the kids can bond with this dog.  I know it will take some time, but hopefully soon Ruffles will realize that it wasn’t these two kids that hurt him and that these two won’t hurt him.  So hopefully the dog and the kids will be able to bond.

I can’t completely understand why it costs so darn much to put your kids through school.  Not only do you need to purchase new school clothes and books at the beginning of the year, but there are tons of expenses that come up during the school year.  It’s bad enough that you have to pay this all out for one child, but if you have two or three in the school system, you could end up broke.  The kids have only been in school for less than three weeks and it’s starting to cost us a fortune.  First of all you need to purchase the books, supplies and clothes.  Next you have student fees and agendas.  If that isn’t enough then comes out requests for money for trips, school lunches and school books.  Sometimes we have a difficult time dishing out all this money, so I can just imagine what it’s like for someone who doesn’t have a whole lot of spare cash, or for someone who has three or four kids in the school system.