Life With Frenchie

Whatever will he do to supplement the lost income???

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I have decided I really want to go to

Australia. I went on Google Maps to plan out my trip and thought I’d share with you my itinerary. You all should be able to keep track of me fairly easily; however, please note that when I am at step 12 of my trip, I may not get all that great cell phone reception, so you may not hear from me for a while. Take a look at the map to follow my journey.

P.S. Just in case you haven’t learned already, please don’t take me too seriously.

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For Christmas, MM got a Nintendo DS and a couple of games. Our concern, when deciding which games to buy her, is the appropriateness of the games for her age. It turns out that she ends up getting the games that involve taking care of a pet of some kind. What I’ve come to realize is that those games are pretty much all the same, except for the animal. There really isn’t much challenge to them and MM doesn’t really seem to stay too interested in them for long.

When I heard about GoPets: Vacation Island, I really liked the concept. There seemed to be a lot more to it than the other pet games. As soon as we got it, MM opened up and stuck it in her DS. We were headed to Girl Scouts and she did not divert her attention away from the game for one second of the ride. It’s almost like the Webkinz because she gets to earn “money” for doing things and, in exchange, she can purchase stuff for her pet. She really likes that she’s able to communicate and find friends for her pet, and it’s all safe because they can only communicate using symbols.

So far, MM has given this game a solid “two thumbs up” and said she enjoys it much better than her other pet games! Keep the good stuff coming Nintendo!

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Today was the last day of school for MM and she had many things to show me when I got home today. Based on information that had been given to us previously, we weren’t expecting to get report cards until the middle of the month and we weren’t expecting the rest of her FCAT results until next week.

Before I get to those, I first saw the 3 awards she received this year: Perfect Attendance, Outstanding Achievement in Writing, and Exemplary Service to her school (I’m really not all too sure what that one is about…maybe she saved a teacher’s life? LOL) She also had received her final book report back. It was due last Friday and she reached for the stars on this one. She had started reading Little Women about a month ago and we decided she’d be finished in time to do her book report on it. She really enjoyed the book and got through all ~400 pages in time to report on it. She got it back and had received an A+ with a note about “Great Detail” from her teacher.

Okay, now to the really good stuff. She got straight As in all her subjects as well as Es for behavior and above grade level for her academics in Math and Reading. And for her FCAT, she only missed 3 questions in both her Reading and Math so she’s in the 97th percentile. Best of all, her teachers decided they didn’t want to see her again next year, so she got promoted to the next grade! (Grand Daddy didn’t appreciate that attempt at humor too much!) MM rocked this year! I’m so proud of her!

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