Friday, June 20, 2008
Busy, busy...
He has also decided as of yesterday that he actually wants to walk and he is starting to practice on his own. He got up to 7 steps.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
It got worse....
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Long weekend..
The bummer is that last night Mister Man came down with the stomach flu and has been sick all day and all night. Hopefully we have seen the worse of it.
Monday, May 19, 2008
First Steps...
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Help my Temple....
This is a plead for help.. Temple Emmanuel of Wakefield had a major oil spill in Nov 2007. We are now at the end of cleaning up from the spill. The break in our oil tank leak over 700 gallons of oil into the ground. We have had to have environmental cleans and the like to be able to use the Temple again. What this means is that we are now looking at a bill of over $200K ( we are a small temple of 60 families and do not have the means to pay this). This is where you can help. We have set up several ways to earn money for the Temple without people have to donate money. Here is what they are..
iGive
We are now registered at iGive.com. This is a very simple way for all of us to help earn money for the temple without a lot of work/financial commitment.
Here's how it works: when you go to buy something online, simply go to http://www.igive.com. You will have to register the first time with this website. Choose your charity ("Temple Emmanuel of Wakefield"). Next, check to see if the vendor you are planning to make the purchase from is available (there are ~700 vendors, including many popular online sites). Click on that link and continue to shop at the vendor's site as usual. If you make a purchase, the temple will get a percentage of the price. Some stores will give us as much as 10%, but 1-2% is pretty typical.
Every time you go to purchase something online go to igive first. If the store you're looking for is registered, this can be painless for you, and very helpful for the temple.
Amazon.com
Like iGive above, but even easier. Before you buy something from Amazon click on any black Amazon logos on the Temple web site.
Anything you buy while in that session (ie until you close your browser) gets the Temple a cut for between 4 and 10% of your purchase!
As with the stores through iGive, if you're planning to "shop there anyway", why not have them send a cut back to the Temple?
Now this one is the easiest one to earn money for us. It take a longer time but there is no
payout what so ever for you. Every time you search we earn 1 cent from the searches. What you need to do is go to Good Search, go to the who do you search for box and type Temple Emmanuel of Wakefield. This will become your default charity. Below it gives you the choice of putting Good Search as you search engine on your tool bar. Please do this and set it as your search engine. Every time you search using this tool box, we get one cent. Now isn't that easy?
Thank you to everyone for their help and support. Hopefully this will help us pay a huge bill.
Maxwell...
He also found a bag of bread on the coffee table left by darling Robyn, brought it over to me and said dis... I asked him if he wanted to eat it and he shook his head and said dis... He is growing so quickly.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
I have been very bad..
Robyn is a sweet, sweet girl even though she is quite the handful. Has come up with quite the interesting vocab and often tell me things with words to large for her age. Told me the other day when I said no candy that she would just organize it instead. Then funniest story with her the other day at the grocery store. We were out shopping during Passover.. OK it is still Passover but this was at the beginning of it. Every single thing that she picked up to eat was chametz (flour, corn syrup) filled goodies, I kept telling her no, you can't have this, this week. Next week. She finally broke down in the ice cream section crying. It isn't fair to us Jews making us eat all this stuff this week. We should be able to have what we want just like everyone else. I don't know why Jews have to be punished. It was the cutest thing ever. I felt awful for her, but she still couldn't have her goodies.