Happy Birthday Rebekah

Today is Rebekah's 8th birthday and I thought I would take a trip down memory lane to the year she was born.

Rebekah is my only summer baby.... and boy am I glad I didn't do that again! I was miserable to say the least. We didn't have A/C in our house at the time and knew I didn't want to be so hot all summer, so we got a window unit. It worked well, but I found that we all slept better in the living room in front of the unit.

Well, the doctor decided that I looked uncomfortable and suggested induction. I had had Rachel on her own time and she was a few days late. I jumped at the idea and the date was set. We arrived at the hospital and got all set up. We didn't know it until hours later, but our anesthesiologist was going to make a mistake that would keep me in the hospital for days. But I am jumping ahead of myself. Labor went very smoothly and I enjoyed not feeling any pain.... in fact I couldn't feel anything really below my waist. You would think that would be a good thing... didn't help when it came to pushing though as my legs were so medicated I couldn't move them at all. With my sister and hubby's help (and of course the doctors and nurses) I pushed and she arrived. She was smaller than Rachel. 8lb 6oz. 20 in. long

Then mistake that the anesthesiologist had made would catch up to me many hours later. She had placed the needle in too far and I ended up with a spinal headache that lasted for many days and kept me in the hospital for 5 days instead of 3. I did finally go home and my body did heal. 

Now today we get to celebrate my little headache....just kidding...my little blessing, Rebekah! Happy Birthday Rebekah!!

Here are some pictures of Rebekah through the years.......

 

Too Cute!!

Maggie had a cough and I asked her a question. The tale that unfolded was cute and I thought I had to share. :)

Me: My that was a big cough. Where did that come from?

Maggie: From Africa.

Me: From Africa? Why was it in Africa?

Maggie: It was bad.

Me: Why was it bad?

Maggie: It said a bad word.

Me: It said a bad word? What did it say?

Maggie: It said shut-up.

Me: Oh we don't say words like that do we.

Maggie: No.

Mikayla: You don't talk like that.

Maggie: It was my cough that said it.

TerraCycle by Rachel

Last night Rachel put out her display at her school and told others about TerraCycle. This coming Tuesday her article on TerraCycle will be posted in the edition of the Acorn, her school newspaper. I wanted to share Rachel's article with everyone.

Enjoy!!!


A New Way to Recycle: TerraCycle
By: Rachel Lindahl

Most people know about recycling. You can collect plastic, paper, tin and aluminum to take it to a recycling company to be reused. TerraCycle is different from regular recycling. With TerraCycle, you can collect a variety of items and send them to Trenton, New Jersey, where TerraCycle will turn the trash you collected into a brand new product.
The items you can collect are drink pouches, yogurt containers, candy wrappers, cookie wrappers, chip bags, pens, Sharpies, Elmer’s glue bottles and sticks, Lunch-able lunch kits, and many more. TerraCycle’s program uses their recycling program to benefit schools and other not-for-profit organizations. Their motto is Collect Trash, Earn Cash, Save the Planet. All a school or group needs to do is sign-up and start collecting trash. Each item you collect is gives your school or group two cents to use anyway that the school or group wishes.
There are two ways to send the products into TerraCycle. The first is to request a shipping label to be sent to you. Second is to print your own label to put on a box to send in. When you have enough to fill a box, seal the box and attach the label. Then you take it to UPS to ship for FREE!! The school that my mom works at, Pleasant Valley, has earned $40.90 from recycling just juice pouches. That is 2,045 juice pouches that are not in a landfill.
The reason I wanted to write about this is because I would like our school to sign-up. If Charter Oak began to use TerraCycle, then the school could provide more field trips for all classrooms using the money earned.



For more information on TerraCycle: www.terracycle.net