{"id":175,"date":"2007-02-19T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T17:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/19\/thanks-grandma-and-grandad\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:10:12","slug":"thanks-grandma-and-grandad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/19\/thanks-grandma-and-grandad\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks Grandma and Grandad!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost time to take the in-laws to the airport.\u00a0 I hope they enjoyed their time in the snow.<\/p>\n<p>Grandad taught Blake how to play a couple songs on his guitar and Blake is thrilled.\u00a0 I hear him in there playing now and singing, &#8220;all the girls in France do a little jiggly dance.&#8221;\u00a0 Hmmmmm.<\/p>\n<p>Guess it&#8217;s not much worse than Cole running around singing, &#8220;I want to be an American Idiot.&#8221;\u00a0 I keep telling him that that&#8217;s not what they are saying- they DON&#8221;T want to be an American Idiot.\u00a0 But he&#8217;s three, and always right.\u00a0 In his own mind anyway.<\/p>\n<p>And a business note- Sometimes people send me emails asking about the status of their bags.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t mind this at all, and I will always respond to everyone.\u00a0 However, sometimes your mail boxes are full and the emails bounce back to me. Then I get a follow up email that implies that I am ignoring you.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not.\u00a0 There is nothing I can do on this end if my replies bounce back.\u00a0 It has only happened a couple of times (once recently) and it is so frustrating to get emails from people thinking that I am ignoring them.\u00a0 Ok, had to get that off my chest.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I am off to get a root canal.\u00a0 And I am actually happy about it.\u00a0 I have been living with tooth pain from this crown for the last few months.\u00a0 Well it has turned into an infection and I just can&#8217;t wait to put an end to it.\u00a0 Bring on the drill.<\/p>\n<p>And a funny note since it is Presidents Day (and why I could never homeschool my kids).\u00a0\u00a0 My 7 year old claims his favorite president is George Jefferson.\u00a0 I think it is so funny that I don&#8217;t dare tell him that George Jefferson was not actually a president but a tv show.\u00a0 It all started after a school project where he had to name the presidents on currency.\u00a0 George Jefferson- the best president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost time to take the in-laws to the airport.\u00a0 I hope they enjoyed their time in the snow. Grandad taught Blake how to play a couple songs on his guitar and Blake is thrilled.\u00a0 I hear him in there playing now and singing, &#8220;all the girls in France do a little jiggly dance.&#8221;\u00a0 Hmmmmm. Guess it&#8217;s not much worse than Cole running around singing, &#8220;I want to be an American Idiot.&#8221;\u00a0 I keep telling him that that&#8217;s not what they are saying- they DON&#8221;T want to be an American Idiot.\u00a0 But he&#8217;s three, and always right.\u00a0 In his own mind anyway. And a business note- Sometimes people send me emails asking about the status of their bags.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t mind this at all, and I will always respond to everyone.\u00a0 However, sometimes your mail boxes are full and the emails bounce back to me. Then I get a follow up email that implies that I am ignoring you.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not.\u00a0 There is nothing I can do on this end if my replies bounce back.\u00a0 It has only happened a couple of times (once recently) and it is so frustrating to get emails from people thinking that I am ignoring them.\u00a0 Ok, had to get that off my chest. Tomorrow I am off to get a root canal.\u00a0 And I am actually happy about it.\u00a0 I have been living with tooth pain from this crown for the last few months.\u00a0 Well it has turned into an infection and I just can&#8217;t wait to put an end to it.\u00a0 Bring on the drill. 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