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April Fool’s Day remembered

Posted on April 2, 2009 11:17 pm by TheAngelForever

When I was teaching I would always cringe on April Fool’s Day. I never knew what to expect from my older students and was aware that it could be very bad. Of course, there was also the year that we had a full day field trip (6am to 11pm) on April Fool’s Day. Talk about rules before hand. We had to make sure the kids knew that pranks on the bus, at the museum and on the boat tour would not be accepted.

I am not sure why, but I have never really been into pranks for April Fool’s Day. We did not really talked about it when I was in school. It shocked me when my kindergarten kid actually came home referencing it. Every other word out of NHL’s mouth on Wednesday was something about April Fool’s Day. *sigh*   Man they learn young.

My webmaster husband (aka TechyDad) decided it would be fun to do something to our readers. We briefly talked about it Tuesday evening, but never said much after that. Suddenly TechyDad started to Tweet me strange messages on Wednesday. Without going to my blog, I just knew what he had done. JL had switched the templates of our blogs. So if you came here to TheAngelForever it looked like you were at TechyDad, just with my content.

So my question for you:

Did you do anything for April Fool’s Day this year or were you the recipient of anything? If not and you have something fun from the past please share that as well.

TheAngelForever

BTW – Don’t forget to enter my giveaways for the Exergen Temporal Scanner and DaBib bib of your choice.

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Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the Mr. Linky there if you are participating.

 Aloha Friday by Kailani at An Island Life

Aloha #42

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Ready or not, here comes Passover

Posted on April 2, 2009 8:41 am by TheAngelForever

No matter how much I am in denial, the reality is there.  Next Wednesday night is the first Passover Seder.

Over the last month or so we have been slowly gathering more healthy recipes to use for Passover.  Of course also with that we have been going into debt buying Passover items before the stores run out. This year JL and I promised each other that we would not buy as much of the prepackaged Passover foods, mixes and things. We have our own baking pans for Passover and bought ingredients that can be used to bake the boys some goodies. Of course we did buy some Rainbow and Bon Bon cookies because those are quite difficult to replicate.

Here is the cabinet in our kitchen completely filled with all of our non-perishable Passover food/baking/spice items.

Passover non-perishable items (goes WAY back and under)

My biggest dilemma with Passover is breakfast. Most morning I eat instant oatmeal. It is filling, low points and keeps me energized for the morning. Sadly there is no really good option with this for Passover. The boys will likely be eating a LOT of matzah and cream cheese. Yummy indeed,  but it is not really an option while being good. I seriously do not want to undo the weight loss that I have done, especially given the commitment to work outs that I have been doing. Since Sunday, I have already done 16.5 miles of work out with Leslie Sansone (not including today).

One option is trying this:

New to us this Passover

According to JL, it can be used as a hot breakfast cereal of sorts. Has anyone tried this and have any suggestions? Trying to come up with some more options for Passover. We have yogurt, although not one that I really like since it is Kosher for Passover. There will also be egg whites, which are great if I have time to cook them. And of couse I could also do cottage cheese and fruit.

If you have any other suggestions for healthy Passover meals, especially breakfast and even lunch, I would love to hear them.

TheAngelForever

There are a lot of past postings where I talk about Passover. Just do a keyword search for Passover. Here are my posts from the Seders last year: Happy Passover 2008 – Seder 1   and     Seder Part Deux – 2008.

 

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A Unique Birthday Gift

Posted on April 1, 2009 12:00 am by TheAngelForever

There have been many times that I wonder what to get someone for their birthday. Whether a family member, or a special friend I am often stumped. Many times, I give people photos of special memories, but would love to do more.

LifeOnRecord

Thanks to Family Review Network, I recently had the opportunity to find out about a great new online gift option called LifeOnRecord.

Imagine making a unique birthday gift for someone in your life. The gift would be a CD with familiar voices of family and friends leaving birthday wishes or recalling a humorous story from the past. Thanks to LifeOnRecord, making this CD is now possible all within one convenient website.

I am currently in the process of using LifeOnRecord to make a special birthday gift for someone in my life. Detailed directions, along with fabulous suggestions, for using my account were sent to me.  A toll-free number has been set up for people to call in their messages. Upon calling in, everyone will hear a greeting from me asking them to leave a favorite story, memory, or wish. When the caller is finished, they also have an option to review what they recorded and re-record if they wish. As the coordinator of this memorable gift, I am able to sign into my account on LifeOnRecord to listen to all of the messages as they come in. Then I can toggle the order of the messages and how to put them on the final CD gift.

LifeOnRecord CD

Using LifeOnRecord is easy to do. Once you set everything up, you simply tell people what they need to do. Anyone can call the toll-free number when they have a free moment to record their message. The best part is the voices of friends and loved ones will convey their personality within a special CD gift.

Facts about LifeOnRecord:

  • Guests simply dial a toll-free number and leave a message.
  • Fast and convenient to use, compared to writing a memory for a person.
  • Callers can call in at their convenience and are not limited by their lphysical ocation.
  • Surprise gifts are easy to collaborate without the birthday person suspecting anything.
  • Flexible for coordinator to organize and play the stories and well-wishes over the internet, through iTunes, or download them to their MP3 player.
  • Present from the heart allows people to express emotion, thoughts, and feelings that are often not shared in other gifts.

I look forward to receiving recordings from people soon. We are still working on rounding everyone up to participate in the gift and explaining what they need to do.  I am sure that the recipient of this will cherish this memorable gift for years to come.

TheAngelForever

 

 

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