This week we have all the kids! (I have four stepsons in case you didn’t know) for a week of family fun.
Yesterday we had a very leisurely morning – not really stirring until around 9 or so (well, them — i myself did not get up until about 11!). We headed out to run a couple of errands (including vehicle registration, which if I had only known about the new online option last week I could have avoided).
[Kaleya & Miles at the county clerk office.]
Then, we decided to go to the TN State Museum, however, I failed to realize that the museum is not open on Mondays. Instead, we went to the public library for some time, then hit a local used bookstore to pick up some of our own books, went grocery shopping and came home.
[Walking downtown.]
Last night, the boys are watched the movie Pride about a black swim team that came out last year. It chronicles the story of Jim Ellis, a swim coach who started the first black swim team. The team was based out of a recreation center in Philadelphia. I watched this with Kalonji a couple of weeks ago and it is definitely worth watching.
This morning, we went to our local Regal Cinemas and were able to see Bee Movie for free due to a program they run in the summer for showing free movies. We had all seen it before, but it was fun to see it on the big screen again. The movie theater was packed to!
After having lunch at home, we then took the kids to the Tennessee State Museum. This was my first time going, despite all the years I’ve lived here and I was pleasantly surprised. There were a good number of exhibits — all of them well done. We asked the kids to take turns reading from the exhibits and discussing what was presented. I actually learned quite a bit about some of the history of early Tennessee and the cities here. Also, learned more about some of the lifestyle conditions of the people in Tennessee from the early frontier days to early 1900s.
[Kaleya next to a bench carved by Davy Crockett. ]
[everyone watches a short educational film]
Tomorrow we go to take them on a tour of Fisk. We got them started early as they had to read the plates that went along with each item in the collection.
[Miles reads about the Fisk Jubilee singers.]
Not sure what tomorrow necessarily brings after the tour – possibly visit BiCentennial Mall for a minute or Fort Negley, then I’d love to get some swimming in for them; we’ll see.
The Davidson County Clerk has re-done their website! Why does this make me so happy??? I don’tknow, I just love the new look and I just learned that vehicle registrations can be done online – whippee!!!!
In my last post I put up a video that demonstrates an application that goes with Microsoft Outlook and helps manage the email — it is called Xobni. I’ve been using it for about three days now and I love it.
Unfortunately, I’m not at work and I forgot to grab some screenshots, but I am finding it very helpful in keeping track of who has sent me what files and email. I highly recommend it.
In other news – we are going into our busy time of the year. We will have my stepsons for this coming week and then next week, Kalonji has a course to attend for a week. Then, after that, we are planning to go to Alabama. In addition to this, my sister is moving to Nashville and will be working at my library while she takes this year off to apply to grad school.
Will this application be my saving grace for using MS Outlook at work? I just downloaded it and will be giving it a trial over the next few days. I’ll report my opinion this weekend.
Kalonji is a college graduate! He just received an email from his school, Liberty University, that his degree has been conferred. We are so excited! Actually, the degree is quite unexpected as he was told that he had one more course to take before he could graduate, but he certainly had the requisite number of credits to graduate.
Yeah!! This degree has been many years in the making for him. What’s next? He plans to pursue his Masters of Arts in Teaching and Learning w/ Technology.
Look! A DigiScrap page! I haven’t done a scrapbook page in quite a while now. I had a separate blog for it, but decided to let that one go as I don’t do this often enough to justify a separate blog. I have plenty other blogs to keep me busy This is Kaleya over Memorial Day Weekend with her BFF.
I was inspired to do a page after one of the genealogy blogs I read posted about scrapbooking + genealogy. The guest poster listed a website that I was not familiar with and I just spent about two hours downloading freebies. Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy!
We took Kaleya to go see Kung Fu Panda last night. It was very cute and I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would! Kaleya is so funny; she runs around making hand movements like they do in the movie. Kalonji and I have considered putting her in karate for the past year so we are hoping this movie gets her motivated. The only problem is that most places don’t start kids until they are 5 years old. So, looks like we may have to wait a little while longer
Last month, Kelley apparently tagged me to post “6 unimportant things about yourself. ” I somehow missed the tag, so let me go ahead and play now.
1. i don’t like tomatoes, but i don’t mind tomato-based stuff, like spaghetti sauce
2. i like to multi-task
3. during the week, i only sleep about 6 hours a night on average. On the weekends, I average 10+
4. i hate sundays b/c monday is the next day
5. i love geishas
6. as i get older, i find myself attracted to bold and crazy colors/patterns in stuff just like my mother (for example, she used to have a yellow sofa w/ different colored fish pattern all over it and now it doesn’t seem so ludicrous to me)
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[Kaleya next to a bench carved by Davy Crockett. ]
[everyone watches a short educational film]
This is Kaleya over Memorial Day Weekend with her BFF.