Whew! Party #10 Over

My daughter’s birthday party was today and I am soooo glad it is over.  I am exhausted!  Very, very exhausted. I just want to crawl in my bed and sleep for about 48 hours.  LOL  But everything went off without many hitches…thank goodness!  Each of our problems were able to be solved quickly (and before guests started arriving).  Food – great. Swimming, trampoline jumping, and making smores were considered great activities by all, cake turned out WONDERFUL, and Cam received some great gifts that she is still up loving (nothing embarrasing like lingerie). LOL Going to post a few more contests and then head to bed to sleep 48 6 hours!

Back from Vacation so Vacation Begins

I am officially back from our Disney vacation.  We did a night at All Star Movies and then headed to 5 wonderful days on the Disney Wonder!  It was great!  From there, we went to Pop Century (our home away from home) for 8 nights.  HEAVEN!  Got our favorite – Tie Dyed Cheesecake – and our Disney fix.  Both vacations were wonderful!

We are currently planning to try to alternate cruises and WDW every other year though as doing both was exhausting!

We came back from Disney to turn around and head to Corpus. Becka is now officially registered for classes at Texas A&M – Corpus Christi and all housing paperwork filed.

Now that I’m back from vacation, I’m happy to report some real summer vacation time now so I can do nothing for a while.  High on my summer plans – get the blogs back in gear.  I’m ready.  I’ve missed everyone.  I have some ideas for each site so look for some new postings and ideas around.

Oh nO! Oh MY! IT’s FriDAy tHe 13tH!!!!

Last week in Friday Night Live, we discussed this upcoming Friday and that it was Friday the 13th.  From there I got to thinking – where did all of this Friday the 13th stuff start?  I’ve heard about Friday the 13th all my life – my eight year old knows it’s a “bad luck” day, and we’ve never discussed it.  So I started searching, and after making it through all the movie stuff, you will find some Friday the 13th Facts below:

Theories of Where Bad Luck Friday Began:

• Biblical times – maybe the crusification was the 13th or Adam eating the Apple
• Christians have traditionally been wary of Fridays because Jesus was crucified on a Friday.
• Chaucer allusion in The Canterbury Tales
• 17th & 19th Century Western Literature
• Black Friday – fall of Wall Street

Where Did the #13 come from?

• The Last Supper – Judas was the 13th guest
• 18th Century Superstition that 13 people at a table meant one would soon die
• Later this 13 people group theory was extended to rooms, ships, etc.  
• By the 19th Century, room 13′s were eliminated in hotels, floor 13s in buildings
• Could have been considered pagan because there are 13 months in the pagan lunar calendar.

When did the two merge to Friday the 13th?

• Did not become bad luck until the 20th Century
• 1913 Notes & Queries first written reference to Friday the 13th
• In British tradition, Friday was the conventional day for public hangings, and there were supposedly 13 steps leading up to the noose.

Terms

• triskaidekaphobia -  fear of the number 13
• paraskevidekatriaphobia – fear of Friday the 13th

Sources:

• http://www.snopes.com/luck/friday13.asp
• http://people.howstuffworks.com/friday-thirteenth1.htm
• http://www.infoplease.com/spot/friday13th.html

Looking for something to do on this Friday the 13th? Join us over at MomDot for the MomDot Friday the 13th Party. You can turn your bad luck into good luck with all the amazing prizes that will be given away tonight.

Teaser Tuesdays

I’m trying to introduce a new set of meme’s this week (as you could see yesterday).  My Tuesday meme for the week is Teaser Tuesday by Should Be Reading.

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
• Please avoid spoilers!

I’m currently reading 6th Target by James Patterson.

“Dead girl. Dead end,” Conkin said, running his hands through his hair. “The kidnappers have no problem with murder. And that’s all we know.

Tuesday Toot

I’m not usually one to “toot” about myself, but this week I was so excited because I actually had something to write about.  Yep – I have something to toot about myself.  There’s not telling the hours, the weekends, I’ve spent away from home since school started with my debaters.  We’ve worked hard.  And last Thursday we went to our district competition.  It was a nerve wracking day.  I couldn’t eat, couldn’t sit still….while I waited on the teams to debate and hear results.  At that point, it was totally out of my hands, but thanks to the work put in by not only myself, but my debaters, we came home with the District Championship!!  Now all that work has paid off!!

–Want to know more about Tuesday Toot? head over to The Mommy Community for more info.