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Here  is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about New   Englanders…

“Forget  Rednecks …….”

If someone in a Home Depot store offers you  assistance
and they don’t work there, you live in New  England .
           
If  you’ve worn shorts and a parka at the same time,
you live in New  England .

If you’ve  had a lengthy telephone conversation with
someone who dialed a wrong  number,
you live in New  England .
             
If  ‘Vacation’ means going anywhere south of New York City
for the  weekend, you live in New England .

If you  measure distance in hours,
you live in New  England .
           
If  you know several people who have hit a deer more
than once, you live  in New  England .
            
If  you have switched from ‘heat’ to ‘A/C’ in the
same day and back  again, you live in New England .
            
If  you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a

raging blizzard  without flinching, you live in New England .
            
If  you install security lights on your house and garage,
but leave both  unlocked, you live in New England .
             
If  you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how
to use them,  you live in New England .
            
If  you design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a
snowsuit, you  live in New  England .
             
If  the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph you’re going 80 and
everybody  is
passing you, you live in New England .
            
If  driving is better in the winter because the potholes
are filled with  snow,you live in New England .
            
If  you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still
winter and road  construction, you live in New England .

If you have more miles on  your snow blower than your car,
you live in New England .
           
If  you find 10 degrees ‘a little chilly’, you live in New England .
             
If  there’s a Dunkin Donuts on every corner, you live in New England .

If you  think everyone else has a funny accent, you live in New England .

 

Good bye 2010 and hello 2011.  In review of the past year there have been many ups but unfortunately just as many downs.  We all have the best of intentions with our resolutions from New Years.  Let’s see how many of us can keep them or even remember what they were at the end of the year. 

We all have that aha moments.  They may be big or they may be small.  Regardless of their size here is one I have vowed to uphold.  Life is too short to keep friends that just bring you down.  Yup – cleaning the house of friends is on the agenda.  The process has already started.  In hindsight friends that don’t treat you with respect aren’t worth your time.  They are not honest with you and only drain you of your self respect.  Yup I am done with this particular person.  Keep in mind I have been friends with this person for about 30 years.  A few friends have been given the details of what happened and are horrified of what this person did.  Whether they are friends or family they are not given a free license to treat you any way they want.  This particular person kept saying that I needed to listen to her so we could get past this.  Apparently I was the one that just needed to sit there and listen to her attack my integrity.  I decided after the call got dropped that my time could be better well spent. 

So 2011 will be better for many reasons.  I hope everyone has health and happiness.  Better days are on the horizon.

Last year Walker had spelling test every week.  Throughout the entire year he only got two words wrong.  He was quite proud of his achievements and so were we. 

Walker is lucky enough to have a fabulous teacher again this year.  She is full of energy, smiles and laughter.  Walker came home the first day and said, “My class rocks”!  Having a sense of humor is par for the course of being a elementary teacher for this age group.

Walker is now having spelling test each and every week.  He was doing a fabulous job until the other week when he came home and said he got one work wrong.  I go though the list thinking it was one of the more difficult words.  To my bewilderment it was… get this… the work… “Fine”.

The conversation:

Me:  Walker… are you kidding me?  How could you get the easiest word on the list wrong.

Walker (profound answer): I don’t know.

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I went to class last week to assist in the computer lab for Walker’s class.  I mentioned to the teacher that I couldn’t believe he got the easiest word on the list wrong.  So here was the conversation that I missed that occurred at school.

Teacher: Yes Walker?

Walker (pitiful puppy dog look in his eyes): Mrs. Venzie… I heard the word “Fin” not “Fine”?

Teacher (while keeping her laughter to a minimum) replied: Really Walker?  Well… I would believe that if everyone else in the class spelled it the same way.

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I guess you can’t blame a kid for trying.  I think he gets an A for effort on that one don’t you?