The Facebook Face off

Everyone is getting involved in facebook which is a fun way to reconnect with old friends. With Ben's ten year high school reunion he started a facebook account and has been able to check up on some friends. These are people that we haven't seen since high school. It has been fun and interesting. We've enjoyed looking at the pictures. However, Ben wants me to get my own account and I just don't want to. I feel like I don't need facebook because I do blogging and I just don't want to have ANOTHER thing that I have to check and make comments on. I don't even really comment on blogs even though I look at them so I don't want another thing to become involved in. Plus, I feel like I should cut back the time I spend looking at blogs so why add something else that takes me away from my duties?? I am the same way about TV shows. I can only have so many. It's not that I don't like the other shows but I already spend too much of my time watching the shows I do watch. I have come to a point in my life were if I pick up a new show then I make myself give up an old one. (For example, this year I started watching Lost so I quit watching American Idol.) If I started facebook then I would have to give up blogging and I don't want to give up blogging.

Anyway, Ben is determined to make me have a facebook account. He has now told me I am no longer allowed to look at his account. That really isn't a problem because I don't look. However I saw that my brother, Sam, had one and I wanted to see it. Ben wouldn't let me. He even changed his password so that I couldn't look at it!! Well then I was mad.

Later that night I went into the computer room and closed the door. I got into Ben's fantasy baseball and changed his password!! I was pretty proud of myself because he is in the playoffs and he would be ticked if he couldn't put in pitchers and what not. I thought I was pretty darn sneaky! This was just the leverage I needed for him to change his password back.

As the night progressed Ben didn't say anything which I thought was funny. He checks his fantasy stuff every ten minutes! I decided to take action and sign him completely out of Yahoo so that he would have to sign in and see that I had the upperhand in this fight. I went to sign myself in, typed in my name (schtaylor), and then typed my password. Lo and behold my password was INVALID!!! Ben had gotten into my account and changed my password! Man, I felt like a loser. I should have seen that coming but I was so caught up in my own craftiness that I didn't even remember that Ben knows all my passwords. Needless to say, I had to fix Ben's account so he would fix mine and he still wouldn't tell me his facebook password. (Ben says that he is Jason Bourne...yeah right!) This face off has only strengthened my resolve to never get a facebook account. I may have given in before but not now!!

Homeschooling

Due to Heidi's birthday she will be unable to attend Kindergarten until a year from now. I think that is too long before she starts and have decided that I will just home school her and do it myself. I figure I am smart and competent enough that I can handle teaching what a five year old needs to know. I have also been reading a book about homeschooling and like how unstructured it can be. I like that we can learn what she is interested in instead of following a strict curriculum.

We have started with writing and reading. She can write all of her letters but they usually take up the entire page for one letter. Thanks to the dollar store she now has a manuscript pad of paper that she writes on each day. She picks a few letters, chooses a word or two, and then she gets a sticker after she fills up the whole page. We also got some workbooks from the Dollar Store that have math, reading and writing to work on. It has been fun so far. She is getting the hang of it and I feel like she gets a good balance of learning and playing. I am hoping that she will be able to read before she is actually ready to enter Kindergarten. I like having my girls home. I don't want to send them away from 9-4 when they are only 5! I am excited to home school!

I'm on the McCain Train

I am a Republican by birth. Should I ever reject that heritage to turn Democrat I am fairly sure that I would be disowned by my dad. However, this election was a hard one. I am not a huge McCain fan-I hate him. I didn't like how he and Huckabee tag-teamed against Romney. It wasn't a fair fight, but then again, that how politics work. After knowing it would be McCain vs. Obama Bin Laden I seriously considered NOT voting. I didn't want to be responsible for either of them getting into the White House. (My biggest complaint about Obama is his lack of patriotism...that is the last thing this country needs!) However, after watching Sara Palin last night I know where my vote will go! She was a smart pick and I think that she will balance out the parts about McCain that I don't like. I just really liked her. Normally the VP doesn't have much of a role in the White House but I could see where she changes that. So I need to find out where I can get a McCain/Palin sign to put in my front yard now.

A side note: Did anyone else find her kid's names interesting? They were totally different, borderline weird, but I loved them! Don't worry, I am not going to name my next kids Willow but maybe Erica could do Piper or Trigg. I just loved the names! And Track?? Where did she even get that? But still, loved it.

Daisy weighs 13.4 oz!

And I think we can say that Kaylee is officially potty trained! I don't want to jinx it but we have been accident free for over a week. I no longer have to ask her if she needs to go because she just tells me. Oh man, do I love having a potty trained kid!

Ben was Tagged

Ben's Mom tagged him and I know he won't do it himself so I am going to fill it out for him.

3 Joys
1. His wonderful wife
2. His crazy/loud/funny/cute kids
3. The feeling of relief after going #2 (he is going to kill me when he sees this, but hey, he had his chance to do it himself!)

3 Fears
1. That the birth control won't work.
2. Anything that has to do with communicating/seeing spirits or dead people. Things like weegee boards freak him out (did I spell that right?) His Aunt has a story about weird things happening when she used a weegee board and it is things like that that he doesn't like.
3. Going into the attic of our rental house.

3 Current Goals
1. Win a 5k.
2. Get a 3.5 GPA this next semester (that will require a lot of work).
3. To win in any one of his fantasy leagues (that will require even more work than school because he stinks at all fantasy sports!)

3 Current Obsessions
1. Getting into shape.
2. Having the highest score on all our Wii games
3. Facebook

3 Random Facts
1. He received the All-League award his Senior year for playing soccer. The LP team went to the playoffs that year.
2. Our first months of flirting involved a clothespin, gingerbread cookie dough and a car safety flier.
3. He still sleeps with his baby blanket every night.

He will not tag anyone because he doesn't care but it would be interesting to read what the other husbands would put. (Or what the other wives would put about their husbands)