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loved watching them win i loved watching them do the thing donald wood and many others said was not unlikely but impossible because of social media it was also spectacular to be completely connected to the action as well as the emotion and reverie of all my friends and family at home and around the us who were experiencing the same elation i was i want to experience greatness as every one does but i am also thrilled to witness greatness and cheer it on in whatever form and discipline it comes in in this case pigskin style delivered via seattle how does it feel to win proud of the team who found out during the super bowl and all the 12th man friends along the way share posted by jennymac 5 witty and spry comments tuesday december 31 2013 this little light of mine i read a question recently i found quite compelling if you woke up tomorrow with only what you were thankful for today what would your life look like as we wrap up the year i am thankful for many things perhaps one of the greatest aspects of this year happened during this month of december with our son he is lucky he is surrounded by love opportunity options we also strive to surround him with leadership discipline choices creativity and the ability to use his voice and weigh in on some decisions every year since he was two we do some kind of service project they grow every year and because he is 6 now this year could introduce a broader level of interactive service projects we want him to understand how fortunate he is and the importance of giving back doing something having empathy and being involved he embraced it quite well this year believe me at age 2 it was a little more of a struggle me hey lets buy a bunch of toys and give them away to kids in need him lets buy toys and keep them as he has gotten older i have added one or two additional projects this year he helped me make the list and we are two away from full completion which we will do today in all of the activities he took a big role in communicating the message of sharing with others my absolute favorite part is the day he took his acoustic guitar in to a senior center assisted living facility he played rock and roll acoustic versions of christmas songs to a crowd of seniors he was happy they were happy and we were tremendously happy who can predict what our son will remember from his childhood when he is an adult maybe it will be his teams his trips or birthday parties with friends i do hope it will include my awesome ability to make pancakes into numerous different shapes and faces more importantly hopefully he remembers all of these actions and activities he did every year to reiterate the importance of giving we look forward to a new list next year and hopefully it becomes instilled in his own pace and plan on how to build his life for that i will be truly thankful too happiest of new years to you all jennymac a few pics from our kindness projects share posted by jennymac 6 witty and spry comments tuesday december 17 2013 time to cry my favorite dog nixon got a bee stung once after the bee stung her it continued to zoom around her poor ever increasing in size face as i pulled out my kung fu moves and yelled at that sob like i was a prison guard nixon s face was so distorted she looked like a float in the macy s parade the road to recovery was well paved with baby benadryl for her and a long sip of cabernet for me this slight injury had me sick to the gills because my job was to keep her out of harms way the time she ate her own ____ well that s all on her and another story for another day i loved her beyond what i ever thought capable for a human to love something covered in fur dog stories of all kinds impact me but this perhaps holds the gold star a few minutes that will make you laugh and cry well mostly cry but crying releases toxins so don t be afraid why does it matter annually over 100 000 animals in the us are abused approximately every 11 seconds an animal is put down in a us animal shelter a puppy is not a christmas present to be loved in december and ignored in july it takes a special kind of person to advocate for the furry population and it takes a heart of gold and steel to participate in animal rescue could anyone yes but i would cry so much and so often my actual help would be watered down and fall onto the shoulders of others this holiday season if you are looking for ways to help you can donate to hope for paws the group behind this rescue and rehab if you want an additional location to donate a friend from college works with this organization in wisconsin northstar wi dog rescue and advocacy you can also save a dog from a puppy mill at milldog rescue minimac and i are going tomorrow night to take dog toys to a local shelter in atlanta you can call a shelter nearby and ask for specifics and if you can also donate food treats etc santa s sleigh might be pulled by eight reindeer but nixon looked like a deer had the energy of eight toddlers and could pull that sleigh alone on behalf of my favorite dog in the world and i had other boxers but yes she was my favorite do something to help another dog in the world santa will like you more here is a photo from when she was a puppy if you dr doolittle the dog whisperer or otherwise versed in what is that dog trying to tell me let me help see this picture her expression isn t really saying how much longer til santa it is actually asking what in the f is the matter with you mom seriously fake pose picture deer toy with bells on it i am scolded for trying to eat really someone help me share posted by jennymac 9 witty and spry comments tuesday december 3 2013 the price of doing goodness last year we spent one full day in december with minimac doing acts of service and kindness we filled the backseat of my car with toys for a shelter all of which were toys he picked out we bought gift cards at starbucks and passed them out to people in line we took dozens of cookies to fire stations banks and a christmas tree farm we even stopped by to visit some workers at a hand carwash to have one of them talk to my son about crunk we might skip that stop this year i have a long list of wishes for our son one of them is that when he is an adult he will remember the constant iteration that being philanthropic and charitable is not only easy it is a necessity we started december 1 with a reminder that acts of service and kindness are easy my mom is in town for the thanksgiving holiday and we went to starbucks on saturday after our purchase i give my credit card to minimac and tell him to pay for the beverage of the person at the front of the order line as a way of saying happy holidays he went to her told her he would like to pay for her coffee and she gave him the biggest smile he then handed her my credit card and turned and walked back to me and grammy whoops we need to clarify the logistics but the positive take away was him smiling her smiling and the guy behind the counter smiling the price of doing goodness 3 19 when we exited i asked mini if he remembered why we do nice things for strangers answer i was hoping for so they in turn will do something nice for someone else his answer so they will do something nice right back to me well good option but we can expand on that a bit we are currently working on our list for acts of service for the remainder of the month for the past several years i have posted a blog at the beginning of every december called 31 days of goodness which are compilations of opportunities to give time money or heart to worthwhile organizations for a great overview you can find each list 31 days of goodness december 2009 31 days of goodness december 2010 31 days of goodness december 2011 31 days of goodness december 2012 this year i am going to highlight a few at a time for my mom and all others that love horses save a forgotten equine safe this group vows to make a difference in the lives of at risk equines i didn t realize the number of equines at risk until the blizzard in south dakota earlier this year as a horse owner this is a critical issue to my mom and i am happy to pass it along as i have shared on memorial day and veteran s day there are many willing to go and do what i am not willing to go and do to protect our country and all of our freedoms for those who come home altered and broken there is an organization called wounded warrior whose vision is to foster the most successful well adjusted generation of wounded service members in our nation s history in disney a few weeks ago mini and i briefly spoke to a make a wish child nothing will snap your perspective back in to shape more quickly than seeing a family filled with true wonder and amazement as their terminally ill child embraces all of the magical aspects of disney what i did not realize is there is an adult version of this program granting wishes to terminally ill adults called the dream foundation one of the teachers at sandy hook elementary kaitlin roig debellis who saved her class from the tragic events last december started an organization teaching children compassion through the classroom classes4classes engages teachers and students to pay it forward by supporting classes in need when a class receives a gift they find a classroom to donate to going forward december is only made better by sharing it with a 6 year old it is a wonderful time of year to see things differently but also realize that with every impression we make on our son about charity empathy service and honor we are shaping his life and his potential as a future leader it is hard work but so incredibly worth it share posted by jennymac 2 witty and spry comments tuesday november 19 2013 lessons from high school please wash your hands immediately after i came across the name of one of my high school teachers last week although my parents are still in seattle i have resided elsewhere since i moved away to college i thought of this teacher years ago while writing a blog post about an incident i appreciated more in the retelling vs actually living through at the time recently i kept seeing his name popping up on fb and curiosity led to the discovery he has been diagnosed with cancer my first thought was cancer really isn t he only 30 years old not that cancer checks id or cares about age well this is an example of practicing what i call hometown math hometown math is when you remember a person at the last age you saw them or when they were most prominent in your mind and you simply don t add any additional years to their life so in the same way i was surprised when i saw an old friend this summer and her daughter was leaving for college i thought isn t your daughter only ten i remember this teacher as he was back in the day strong larger than life and 30 it also made me realize as children we give our teachers very limited dimension who is mrs chambers she is the reading teacher who is mr black he is the math teacher who is mr g he likes us government we don t think mrs chambers mr black and mr g have entire lives outside of school we don t see them this way so we don t realize the layers that create them maybe they go boating or fishing on the weekends maybe they listen to creedence clearwater or steve miller and drink manhattans or red wine maybe they meet their college buddies once a year for a long weekend when they reminisce about college girlfriends and the time they were front row at the supertramp concert as children we often don t realize or fully comprehend the primary reason these people became teachers was to enhance the lives of kids their entire career choice was one of impact and dedication teachers were graded on our own internal scale of easy to hard to impossible mountains of homework they were narrowed down to a tiny scope of either cool or sucks and believe me we with our abilities to recite facts about wwii spelling skills and a firm handhold on how to solve algebra problems with grouping symbols felt totally capable of deciding what qualified whether a teacher made it into the cool or sucks categories with our limited views of the world we weren t really capable of fairly making these distinctions but it didn t stop us we also fail to realize these teachers might also discuss us and as a result hold strong opinions of who we are as people maybe those conversations sound like this this one smart as a whip this one gifted but lazy this one misguided but responsive to leadership this one punk i think these teachers dedicated themselves to making a connection with every type of student from superstar to punk because if they could find that thread the way to sync they could reach inside a child s mind and influence it to greater heights there is a post on his get well page from a former student mr g after college i joined teach for america i became a teacher because of you wow mr g was tough in school he had high expectations and a forceful demeanor he was a competitive athlete hence the story to come but those high expectations and that fundamental tenacity is what he demonstrated to his students those that paid attention benefited greatly as an adult now 20 years out of high school i don t know anything about him present day he was honored earlier this year for his leadership and civic focus but that i gleaned from an alumni article maybe he likes lacrosse or listens to steve miller maybe he has a spouse or kids taking the news quite heavily i do know there are many many other people from our hometown who when given the occasion to think of him would recall he was a great teacher and then realize it is a sentiment we have never shared it is an appreciation holding even deeper meaning to me now that i have a tiny child in school and what constitutes a good teacher has more relevance and complexity than ever mr g i am sending heartfelt sentiment and prayers to you for fast healing and a healthy road ahead and i should have told you long ago you were a really great teacher ps this story is likely one you don t remember but trust me i will never forget it __________ back in the day one of my junior high classes was tasked with the well known informative speech i wanted to do something more interesting than how to grow a chia pet or how to do the moonwalk i loved athletics so i looked to that genre casting aside our daily sports of tennis football volleyball i opted for something more exotic lacrosse lacrosse was not as common in the pnw pacific northwest so i set out to learn as much as i could do you know lacrosse i think the iroquois from which the sport derived translation means have fun getting your ass kicked between lacrosse hockey and rugby i am not certain which crew is tougher or crazier one of our teachers at school mr g played in a league it occurs to me now that after a day with hundreds of 8 th graders many an adult might need to run with a stick and smash people but i digress mr g was happy a student had an interest in the sport and 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