Catch-Up

Well..After a busy week things are getting back to normal. We enjoyed a wonderful visit with Justin's parents all last week and then Friday joined them in Alpine Texas for a wonderful visit, and Jared's Baptism. It was a great time with family that we don't often get to enjoy!  AS an update, poor little Abby seems to be coping well with her broken arm. They brought her up on Friday to see the Pediatric Orthopaedist and he casted her and determined she did not need surgery. YAY!  

Aside from that, things have been fairly the same.  But i did get the greatest email yesterday...I have to preface this with the fact that it wasn't actually the content of the email, but the subject line. I will explain more later...

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Subject: Candy Warning - Confirmed by Snopes

Wishing you a happy (and safe!) Halloween...

 

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/coins.asp

 

There is a new warning put out by the Canadian Food Inspection
Agency....

Sherwood brand Pirate's Gold Milk Chocolate coins are being recalled due
to the fact that they contain Mel amine, the ingredient in milk product
that has caused many infant deaths in china.
These candies are sold at
Costco, as well as many bulk and dollar stores.
please make sure to
check your children's Halloween candy and DO NOT LET THEM EAT THE PIRATE
COINS (you know the ones wrapped in the shiny gold foil) and please let
other parents know about this! 

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Okay, so that is the end of the email...And yes it is great info to know...but really the reason that I thought it was the greatest email...They checked Snopes before they forwarded it to me!  I have this pet peeve about forwards. It seems that people have this thing about pity forwards. "Oh this child is sick and every time we forward this email the system is going to give them$1. So have a heart and forward it so that they can get money to pay for all the millions of medical costs" or some other various life threatening forward. So they forward these emails, and then the people they forward them too forward them and then I get 20 copies of the same email...All of which are completely inaccurate, because no one bothered to check Snopes or some other true facts site to verify that what they are sending on is really true. So...As a courtesy to those you are forwarding too...think about checking accuracy before forwarding emails!  

Anyway, that was my little rant...Sorry for that. Anyway, things really are good. After suffering from literally, the worst sore throat of my life last week, my throat is finally about back to normal. And I get to buy movie tickets for Twilight. 

Speaking of Twilight...We here in Lubbock need to figure out how we are all going to the movie without our kids, when we are all going and no one will be available to babysit...Or maybe that is just me since Justin is going to be going with me...Is this only my problem? Do others have access to babysitters that I am missing?  

Anyway, have a great day!