Fridays Letters

 

Dear Blog World,

I'm sorry that I have been MIA for a little while,

things have been crazy busy here.

We were dealing with a teething baby,

getting ready for someone's 1st bday next week,

getting ready for a houseful of visitors,

and dealing with some money issues.

I am hopefully back now.

Love Otter Wifey

Dear Husband,

Thank you for being so loving and supportive

and really just being so damn awesome.

You are the most amazing father to Nora,

and you have endless patience with both of us.

We are SO thankful for you.

Love your loving Wife.

Dear NoraBear,

You are almost one.

Holy shiznit.

Mommy is having trouble dealing with this lol.

I can't wait for your birthday next week.

And I hope that you realize how much we love you.

Love Mommy.

Dear Sister,

You arrive in less than a week now.

I'm so excited.

And I just can't hide it.

Quick - name that song!

Love your Baby Sister.

Dear Mom and Dad,

You get here in less than 6 hours and I cannot WAIT!!

I'm so excited for you to see and play with Nora,

and to spend time with you.

I love the adventures of the military, but

I definitely miss being close to you guys all the time.

Love your Baby Girl.

Dear Ontario Weather,

I am appreciative that it's no longer winter

but if we could ease up on the humidity - that would be great.

I love the sunshine though - so thanks!

 Love the sweaty girl whose face is breaking out like a 13 year old.

Dear God,

Thanks.  You're awesome.

 Love K. 

Controversial Topics

I try to stay away from controversial topics on my blog because I don't want to scare away followers or keep new people from reading my blog.  But today I had to write something about Bullying. 

I am scared for my daughter to attend public schools.  And private schools too.  Life seems like it's so much harder for kids now.  I never knew anyone in high school who committed suicide because of bullying.  And the thought that maybe my little girl could either be bullied that much or be a bully, scares the crap out of me.  I just watched a repeat of the Ellen show this morning where a family was on because their son was bullied and hung himself in his bedroom closet.  His father found him the next morning and it was too late.  

When did things get SO bad?  Why is this happening?  I know that I was bullied in high school, and I was a bully towards people too.  But I never EVER thought about ending things.  Where are people learning to be so rude and harsh??  Well guess what, the first place you learn things is at home.  And children learn horrible habits from their parents.  We have "friends" (you know the old saying, keep you friends close and your enemies closer... well yea, these are those people, unfortunately), who have a child who is a bully.  This child is in the age range of 2-4 years old (I'm trying to remain neutral in case they ever read my blog, but I don't know if they ever will).  And their child is a bully.  This kid pushes others around, takes toys and is just plain old mean.  And this kid learns all of this from the parents.  Because those parents are bullies.  That's why not many of our other mutual friends want to hang out with them, because they bully too.  Paul gets bullied at work by people he works with - they make fun of him for stupid things because they know it gets under his skin.  And that's where things are WRONG.  And they need to stop.  A student at RMC committed suicide earlier this year because he was bullied.  I'm so sick of people turning a blind eye when it happens.  

I know this post doesn't provide solutions, or really anything at all, but I needed to get it out of my system.  I'm so tired of hearing about children and even grown ups committing suicide because of being bullied.  It needs to stop.  And this is why I'm scared for my baby - I'm scared of this world that we brought her into.  And I can only hope that I can teach her that she is a wonderful person no matter what anyone else says, and I hope that I can teach her to never forget that, because she is wonderful and fabulous just the way she is.

Project 365 - Week 22

So in sad news - the lovely Laura at Between the Lines is no longer doing a Project 365 link up because there wasn't enough interest anymore, but I decided I'm still going to keep trying to do it myself (and yes, technically I'm a day late lol but still).  

And I'm still going to keep a little shout out to Laura at the top too because she has a pretty awesome blog :) 

 

Day 148 - Eating some dinner :)

 Day 149 - Hanging out at Daddy's baseball game :)

 Day 150 - Nora is 11 months old today and was VERY tired after playing in her crib lol

Day 151 - Sharing Cheerios with her bf Desmond.

 

 Day 152 - Eating waffles on the chair like a big girl - wearing her SUPER cute I Support Daddy Tshirt :)

Day 153 - Hanging out with Bella - her best friend.  Bella is so great with her, Nora pretty much mauls her on a regular basis and Bella just puts up with it, it's awesome :)

 

Day 154 - Nora went to her first dance recital ever today.  Dreams In Motion (the studio I taught at last year) had their year end recital, so I dressed Nora up in her tutu and ballerina legwarmers and brought her.  She did AWESOME!  She stayed awake during the whole show, danced along and only cried once and it was only because she dropped her water.  I'm VERY happy with this :)