Ahhhh Man!

Ahhhh man! That's what I heard from Zachary this week when the weather changed from 75-80 degrees to 20-30 degrees and snow flurries. All 200 tulips had sprung forth this week only to be laying their beautiful heads on the ground in agony of the nightly deep freezes. I think we are all groaning with them since I had to turn the heater back on.

We have some really cute Easter clothes for both kids, but now considering the high on Sunday is supposed to be maybe 50 - I'm wondering if I shouldn't put them in their Christmas outfits so they don't freeze! Maybe their Easter outfits will become their Mother's Day outfits! Zachary's school did an Easter egg hunt yesterday.............in their classroom since it was too cold and snowy to go outside. Wow! How much I have forgotten since I was a little kid in Buffalo, NY and what sacrifices my parents had to make to deal with 4 kids and the ever-changing weather.

Last night the Bravo channel had a special performance by Whoopi Goldberg - I think it was called "According to Whoopi" or something along those lines. My opinion of Whoopi over the years has pretty much been the same - she's another wacked-out actor trying to do weird, outlandish things to get attention. Since there was nothing else worth viewing on TV (and why am I paying so much money for worthless programming) I decided to watch. I have to say that her show last night was just as entertaining as watching the HBO special "Bill Cosby - Himself" where he talks about him and his family. I was laughing so hard at points I was crying while trying not to wake up the house. Among the many things she spoke on, she talked about how she was raised to say "Please, Thank You, May I, etc.". She said she reached "adulthood" during the 60's and "free love" days and she wasn't going to put any of those "restrictions" on her children. So she raised her daughter without having to do any of those generational courtesies. Now, she says she has a grandchild, she's in her 50's and menopausal and has come to a definite conclusion. By not teaching her child etiquette, it perpetuated her daughter not teaching her children etiquette, and now we just have a bunch of mannerless barbarians running around the world. It really echoed our experience the other night at a local restaurant where a child was standing up in a booth while both parents complained, but did nothing. The child was holding her glass while turning and ended up tripping and spilling her drink down the back of the person in the booth behind her. How nice. Anyway, if the special comes back on, you should watch it - it is well worth watching and very funny. Hopefully, since we are requiring common courtesies from our kids they won't be in that "barbarian" class - maybe just the "brat" class!