Emma Weylin

Archive for March, 2010

We took the girls to see the 3D IMAX version of How to Train Your Dragon tonight. It was a wonderfully fun movie for the whole family to see. It was a delightfully cute tale about a boy and his dragon. It had the usual fantasy fare and the plot was mildly predictable, but, I find that acceptable in a child’s film. It had enough deviation that it didn’t get boring and the adult humor was funny, well placed AND mild enough that if a child repeated it in public, it wouldn’t embarrass the parent.

The points I liked best about the movie was A) They let the Vikings be Vikings without taking it away from them at the end. B) The ending was a shock. It was totally unexpected, but totally fit plot line, and, I think it added even more meaning to the movie in the end.

It was fun for the whole family. I know I am sounding like a tag line, but it’s true. The girls were completely enthralled, the husband had a few good chuckles throughout, and of course I adored it. It wasn’t a bad rendition of Eragon. Ahem, sorry to anyone who liked the movie.

Anyway, if you have kids or your just love dragons, this is a must see movie.

This is going to be a short post. I have a bazillion things to do, and never seem to have enough time to get done thing I want because of the “have to’s”.
Let’s see, today’s complaint is going to be about how adults interact with children.

Personally, I find most of the interactions appalling. The first question asked is “Why are kids so rude these days?” Well, because no one takes the time to properly teach them how to behave! Instead of making them feel bad by telling them how crummy they are, why not take the time to help them learn how to be praised for good behavior so they can EARN a good feeling about themselves?

Daycare and babysitters are the normal way the kiddies are taken care of while both parents go out to earn a living in this modern era. (Aren’t we women glad we fought for the right to work like a man? Isn’t it just wonderful what not having a parent home has done to our children?)

Yes, this is a soap box issue for me. I am all for women having time to fulfill themselves and all that other stuff. I am a writer and I take out time for myself and my goals and dreams daily, but I am at home, with my children all day, every day. My husband and I have decided that the well-being, safety and education of our children are more important than material goods.

That’s right folks, we only have 1 vehicle and that vehicle is used for everything we do, including business. If the husband has to work, I am stuck at home with the girls. We have to get creative on scheduling things during his busy times of the year because I can go upwards of three weeks without a way to get to the grocery story that isn’t at 1AM in the morning. We don’t have the latest and greatest of anything because we can’t afford it, BUT my girls are getting a quality education (With the help of cyber school to make sure all state requirements are met) they have me at home with them at all times. If they misbehave it’s MY fault. When they are wonderful (Which is most of time-at least while in public) then that is also MY doing. I can’t blame it on anyone else because I am the one who has taken responsibility for their care. I birthed them, and so, they are my responsibility to rise into happy, productive adults. The husband fathered them, and so, it is his responsibility to help me raise them and provide for them while I care for them at home. SO what if we can’t afford to do all the cool things everyone else does. We can afford enough that they aren’t being deprived of happy childhood, but have to watch money closely, so they aren’t spoiled until they are absolutely rotten little beggars.

I understand that SOME people just aren’t good with kids. Great, perfect, wonderful. They are still people. SOME people don’t like to deal with old crabby assholes either, but somehow, we are forced to deal with them more than SOME people are forced to deal with kids.

OK. I think I am going to shut up now before I get carried away and this gets longer than the time I have allotted for blog writing.

Keep smiling and have fun and remember; They ARE kids! Let them be little, but still teach them in the way you want them grow.

So….

Won an award on a game.

Way cool, right? You bet! Even got this uber awesome gold trophy to go with it. I have it put on display in my little home in this game.

So, 49 other people get the silver award for being among the first 50. Well, the developers of the game had a little oops and gave everyone the gold!

Of course I know these things happen and will be sorted out sometime next week, no big deal.

Being an online game, it has a forum where people can go to get help, ask questions, argue, and the like. Well, someone started a tread about being very concerned they got an award they did not earn. (Wonderful person — bless them) To which I replied in what I hope was in a humors ways, because, well, I knew it would be fixed “soon” so it really isn’t a big deal (As long as those other gold trophies become silver like they are supposed to:P)

More like this one.

Anyway, in response to my joke someone posted:

LOL are you saying they are in Wolfs clothing? LOL that is cute [smiley face was here] i am sure it will get fixed. after all you were the first you should have gold.

Apparently my ability to catch a joke that day just wasn’t there. I totally didn’t get it. Now that it’s come back to smack me in the back of the head. It is wonderfully funny.

For those as slow as I was, I will explain it.

One of my names in game is ElenoraWolf, from two of my characters.

She meant was I asking if they were all pretending to be me! HA! Now I should get the idiot award for not getting it until today.