Live in the Moment. This came to me driving up Highway 45 in Mississippi on the way to Memphis. Time stands still in little towns with names like Chunchula, Buckatoona, Tupelo and Citronelle. I actually saw two old guys sitting in a breakfast place just passing the time. Along the back country roads there were signs for yard sales and homemade purses. Pine forests, country churches. There were wood crafts, bird houses and red dirt roads. I'm thinkin some of those people had lived there all their lives and never ventured to far away.
At any rate. I am trying to hold myself to living in the moment.
We are in Memphis until Monday when we board the night train for CHI town.
This morning we watched 4 yr old Ethan play soccer, his daddy is the coach. We went to visit their house in the country. Then we went to lunch at Arlington Barbeque in Arlington Tenn. Yum. Gregory and Cristi have a beautiful house and two really cute children.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Crummy Art Supplies
My talented niece posted a blog entry about "Mr. Sketch" markers. That got me thinking about one of my pet peeves. The lousy art supplies marketed to unsuspecting parents by our favorite importer of chinese products "Wallmart". (on a side note, I only go in Wallmart when I absolutely have no other choice).
Every school year bins full of dried up practically worthless rose art markers, elmers glue sticks and crummy no name colored pencils are pedaled as school supplies. This stuff is practially worthless, low quality and pitiful. One can purchase a good quality glue stick at Michaels for around $1.00, it will last the entire school year. Crayola makes some good quality markers that will outlast those cheap rose art things. Use your Michaels 40% off coupon to purchase some artist quality prisma color pencils. They are blendable and will last all school year and beyond.
Recently I took Jack to the Art Museum in Mobile. This museum has a children's section on the first floor. It was a Saturday and as usual we were the ONLY people in the children's section. There are a lot of hands on projects for kids, giant Lego's and plenty of art projects for children to start. There are also hundreds of dried out, spent, ruined markers. Empty pads of paper. Broken equipment, It was pitiful. I emailed the Director of the Museum of the pitiful shape of his children's section and he said he would inform the education director. The Art Museum in Montgomery is hands down 100 times better and there is NO fee!!!!!!!!
Every school year bins full of dried up practically worthless rose art markers, elmers glue sticks and crummy no name colored pencils are pedaled as school supplies. This stuff is practially worthless, low quality and pitiful. One can purchase a good quality glue stick at Michaels for around $1.00, it will last the entire school year. Crayola makes some good quality markers that will outlast those cheap rose art things. Use your Michaels 40% off coupon to purchase some artist quality prisma color pencils. They are blendable and will last all school year and beyond.
Recently I took Jack to the Art Museum in Mobile. This museum has a children's section on the first floor. It was a Saturday and as usual we were the ONLY people in the children's section. There are a lot of hands on projects for kids, giant Lego's and plenty of art projects for children to start. There are also hundreds of dried out, spent, ruined markers. Empty pads of paper. Broken equipment, It was pitiful. I emailed the Director of the Museum of the pitiful shape of his children's section and he said he would inform the education director. The Art Museum in Montgomery is hands down 100 times better and there is NO fee!!!!!!!!
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