My Small Corner

Christmas Tree 2011

Christmas Lights

We have a tradition of driving around and looking at Christmas lights a few days before the actual holiday.  This year I had picked up a few address off the internet, plus a few that either traditionally are worth seeing or ones I had noted in my travels. 

Christmas Snapshots

In church crying my eyes out, watching a little boy sidle up to his estranged mother, getting closer and closer and then crawling up her like a tree until she's carrying him and he's wrapped up around her as if he could never let go - that she'd vanish forever if he did.

A Tale of 2 Peds

The other day I opened and closed my shift with a pediatric respiratory distress.  Pediatric emergencies always get the heart going and us moving.  I've heard it said that EMT's only run when someone is on fire.  We also run when it's a pediatric.

Conversations in Our Family

"EC is going over to the dark side!"

"EC doesn't 'go" to the dark side, he IS the dark side."

Random Things That Make Me Laugh

Reading

Cutting across a parking lot on my way to the library when I was stopped by a friend.  They wanted to know where I was going and I explained how I was working my way through an eighteen book series, showing her the one I was going to trade in.

Full Moon

I was chatting with a medic last night about the difference in calls when there is a full moon.  Generally I have found that it really isn't that bad, but yes, there is a certain amount of weird.

Politically Incorrect

But funny!

The Entrepreneur

Eldest Child has taught himself how to make an origami Yoda finger puppet.  He is now making them out of post-it notes for all his friends at school and he's been charging them 5 cents for one. 

I'm pretty impressed with that so I took him to the craft store today and we bought actual origami paper to make them with.  I also bought him some special black paper and he is working on learning how to make Darth Vader.  I suggested he charge 25 cents for those.

It's great that he's learning to work and earn money.  There will be plenty of time to teach him about overhead and expenses but for now I am so pleased with his effort and ingenuity that I am content being a silent backer.