Wha...? Those help instructions are old!!

It took me a while this evening to realize that I already have the following function from Google Friends installed. I kept reading the help instructions on Google and and saw no "Layout" tab on my Blogspot page.

There always seems to be an issue with documentation and communication between techs and users. I would wonder more about why that problem exists, but I have a 30 year old son who is a tech and I have had to make him communicate adequately with me. He often gets so exasperated in the process that he has a meltdown.

Stephen will soon be 31 (July 21) and we are still wondering about any interest in getting married. It doesn't seem to be there and it really doesn't matter that much in his case. Stephen is Stephen!! As one of my young IBI (Intensive Behavioral Intervention) clients recently observed to me, "You're not me" is not an unusual response when someone is attempting to assist you with life's challenges.

Well, I am not Stephen. I am me. We can never be the same!! That is so wonderful!! We are all different from every other person on this planet!! If only more of us could realize this and be more sensitive to others needs and unique personal characteristics. We all seem to want to be regarded as not being like anyone else. This is often to our own detriment, for when some of us think this way about ourselves we leave others and their possibly very valuable viewpoints out of our lives. The truth is that regardless of our own assertions of being independent and totally different from anyone else we each actually need the ideas of others in our lives. We need that enriching power--very often the power to change...the power to become....

When will I really learn that? When will any of us really learn that?

Have a great weekend!!!

Some of You Should be Getting This in Your Email

Just a note that I have finally taken time to explore my blog settings enough to put a bit of each blog post into some of your emails. If you don't want that you will let me know. If you do and you are not getting the emails, please tell me. I can only send emails to 10 people.

I have also given a few of you invitations to become authors of my blog spot. That should make it easier for my family members to blog here.

Have a great day!!!

To My Two Followers

I am finally settling into my summer schedule. Albeit my schedule is still in development. I will meet for the first time with one of my clients today. I am thankful I have a job and I just have to move my stuff from my counselor's office to my 5th grade classroom in the modular (air conditioning--Yay!! no water or restrooms--Boo!!). That will happen after June 30th, when Title I summer school is out.

Next I need to brush up on a few things and get my classroom and plans ready for the next school year. I have not yet seen my class roster, so I am anxious to see who I have. I probably know a lot of the students already. Hopefully my resigning principal, Ben Lemons, has the rosters up soon.

I don't know who will be the new principal, but come what may, I will, indeed be the best I can be for those kids and their parents.

Stephen is home and has put all our computers on the LAN, so now Samuel and Carolyn have their own internet access, as do Stephen, Claudia, and myself. We have added two more computers to our network now to create a total of 5 machines online.

Sam has not found a job yet. He still keeps his long bushy beard and mustache combo, looking like an Hasidic Jew or someone straight from the 19th century. We just hope that gets overlooked in the hiring process.

Carolyn is pregnant with her first child!!! In about November or December Claudia and I are expecting to be first-time grandparents!!!

Gabriel finished his first-ever year of preschool yesterday and brought home a Fathers Day card for me, which you can see above. He will repeat preschool next school year. That will give us some time to get more attachment issues under control and hopefully get him potty-trained. He will be 5 on July 21 (Stephen's 31st birthday).

I have a lot to say and more than one place to say it. I will keep you posted as much as possible as the summer progresses. I will be very busy working and earning as much money as possible to try to keep us afloat and pay off some loans. Next school year everyone in our district will suffer a pay cut. Mine is $4000!!! Unless the economy turns around in time for state revenue receipts to increase adequately enough to restore some of our pay.

Our district continues to hire employees but has laid off some as well. We will see what is happening as time goes on.

One thing is for certain--I am not getting any younger. Another thing is for certain--I am losing weight no matter what I have to do to accomplish that. My goal is about 160 lbs. Currently I weigh between 230 and 235.

Years ago Carolyn, as a little girl, asked me if I came across the plains with the pioneers!!! Of course she was too young to understand large time concepts. We think she has now gone full-circle on that. She now refers back to the ancients and 19th century church leaders to argue we need to retrench and be polygamists. Sam and his father and brother are also headed that way. It was Sam who introduced Carolyn to the Parowan Prophet. Last evening Sam was heard to tell a guest of ours that when his father gets his social security he will buy some property in southern Utah and they will set up their own colony there!! Unfortunately the guest was thinking on similar lines regarding polygamy, though not interested in their offer, and has read many of the same questionable materials Sam and his father and younger brother have read. Our guest is also very easily misled.

Claudia and I and Stephen are not even interested in the options they have been selecting for themselves. We have testimonies of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ, as taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons). We are members and have been for years, as have Carolyn and Sam and his family.

We are still in some shock regarding their unusual choices, to say the least, after several years of these goings- on. It is amazing that Sam and Carolyn are still members of the LDS church. The LDS church does not countenance polygamy in any form. That practice was abandoned during the 19th century. However, some former church members continue to practice polygamy, believing the LDS church has apostatized.

Well, when life gives you a lemon, make lemonade!!! Only people who work hard make mistakes in their work and in their lives!!!

All my best to you and anyone who has read my post. Please feel free to tell others about my blog.