I love watching commercials. Especially with Ryan. He wants to go into marketing as a career so it’s always fun to critique commercials with him. But last night, Ryan wasn’t with me while I had tuned in the Olympics so John got to hear me get annoyed at the t.v. instead. It was a Tide commercial and a young girl, about 12 years old, came on and started complaining about not being able to get the $100 pair of jeans she wanted because…
We were driving home from Nathan and Ryan’s basketball game yesterday when I asked Nathan what he planned on giving his girlfriend, Shea, for Valentine’s Day. “I bought her a rose,” he said. “My math teacher did an equation in class the other day where he proved girls were evil,” said Ryan. Ryan often throws out what I think are non sequiturs, but which actually turn out to fit in with the conversation. It just takes a few additional questions…
I was in a third grade classroom today doing a lesson on saving and spending wisely. It’s a fun lesson because kids get to “buy” things with $25 that I “give” them. With third graders, it’s important to let them know that the money isn’t real, nor are the items they buy. I learned this the hard way last year. Part way through the lesson I allow the kids to choose to save their money, spend it on another item,…
I took Ryan with me to hot yoga yesterday. Nathan had gone a while back with my friend Rebecca and came back with stories about how he’d never sweat so much in all his life. Then I started going and found out that he was right. The heat, plus the difficulty of the poses made for a very intense 90 minutes. Ryan likes a good challenge and asked if he could give it a go. So yesterday we went. In…
I recently wrote about how Nathan was given the opportunity to sign up for some sort of membership on Amazon in order to save shipping costs on an item he had ordered. After I gave him permission I then showed him how to make sure he canceled the membership within the alloted time so that he would not get charged. (See blog entry: Keeping Good Records) What I missed in all of this was Ryan. Turns out, when going through my credit card…