My Facebook.com Experience

I, as you will soon tell, don't surf the web very much. I go to my familiar sites and that's about it. I have never even checked out the My Space stuff b/c I was told by news that it was full of wacky stuff and apparently some messed up people. But over Christmas, my friend Gretchen mentioned finding another High School friend through Facebook. I hadn't heard of that site so I decided to check it out. I just wanted to see who and how you found people.

I wasn't on the site 2 minutes before I made my first mistake. I created a profile. I originally thought that I had to have a profile to search for someone. So, I did. Very short... the basics. Having no choice but to use my email address in my profile, Facebook immediately brought up my Hotmail contacts list and told me everyone in my address book who had a Facebook page. I thought "Coolbeans, that was easy!" I was able to check on about 15 friends no problemo! That was mistake number 2. I just didn't know it yet.

The next day, when I checked my email, I had about 15 facebook messages. They all said that "so-so has confirmed you as one of their friends". I was shocked then embarrassed! I had no idea that who I checked on would know that I checked on them. I thought I had checked those pages anonymously. Thankfully, they were all friends. But I never once clicked anything asking Facebook to send them a message. At the time, I didn't intend to ever go back to that site. It was going to be a one time search, but Facebook had other plans.

I have gone back and even joined a group (someone from church made a class group). I still don't really know what I am doing, but it is fun to have something else to check.

So if you go to Facebook, just to check it out, DO NOT make a profile unless you want to be found!

Well, I decided it was time to post at least one picture from Christmas. I am posting a family one from Brad's parent's house. While I do like this picture, there is reason I am posting this particular one. Brad and I both made a resolution to get and REMAIN fit this year. So, I am posting this as a BEFORE picture. At Easter, I will post another family shot, and you will see less of us. We have both started our plans and are both doing great! Lincoln is such an encourager too. He will watch me do my workout DVDs and say "Mommy, you are doing so good!" or (this one makes me laugh) "Mommy, your arms are getting so big!" as I do the arm repetitions. Funny or not, I appreciate the encouragement.

Coming soon on Laura's Musings: Coleman Walking!

Merry Christmas from our house to your's.

(Editor's Note: This video was taken on a whim. There were no rehearsals.)

Lincoln Looses a Tooth

The Tuesday before Thanksgiving (11-20-2007), Lincoln was eating an apple. Afterwards, he mentioned that it made his tooth hurt. I assumed the peel had poked his gums causing them to hurt. Then after Thanksgiving, Friday or Saturday, he mentioned it hurting again. When I went to investigate, I realized it was loose.

On Thursday, November 29, while at MDO, Lincoln really played with his tooth. Especially at nap time, Lincoln said. By that afternoon, it was ready to come out. I told Lincoln that if he pulled on it, it would come out. I handed him a small, torn-off piece of paper towel and instructed him on how to grasp the tooth and pull. Lincoln pulled a good 5 times, but it didn’t come out. It was much looser, though.

I asked Lincoln to come to me, and in one motion I pulled the tooth. I immediately put my hand behind my back. Lincoln just looked at me like “what?” until he put his finger and tongue where his tooth used to be. His eyebrows went up and we both just smiled at each other. Then we gave High-5. It bled just a little, and once that stopped, we gave each other a big hug. We were both excited. We took a picture on my cell phone and sent it to Gmommy and Daddy, who called us back from work immediatley. We surprised Gran and Papa that evening by going to their house. Lincoln just smiled real big at them. They gasped with surprise- it came out so quick. Lincoln did tell Karen that the tooth fairy would bring him 120 coins. We later explained that his coin (a golden dollar coin) was equal to 100 coins.