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A Little Too Much Magnesium…

It’s been a long day and I just got home from a 3-hour Adobe Flash class which was very cool but I’m too fried to post anything meaningful tonight.  Speaking of fried, here’s something to get your heart started.  DO NOT try this at home.  I’ll get back to the adventures of the Greenabderrazak family tomorrow.

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Another Bad-Mommy Moment

Woman charged for having child ride in box atop van
By David Brewer
October 05, 2009, 12:35PM

ALBERTVILLE, AL – A Marshall County woman is in the city jail here for having her 13-year-old daughter ride in a cardboard box atop her van.
Albertville Police spokesman Sgt. Jamie Smith said Jackie Denise Knott, 37, of Albertville was charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Smith said the child was turned over to a relative.

Smith said police received a call Sunday morning of a minivan traveling on U.S. 431 with a large cardboard box on top with a child inside.

Officers stopped the van on U.S. 431 and asked Knott why the child was riding atop her vehicle.

“The box was too big to go inside the van, and she would be able to hold it down if she was inside the box,” Smith said the woman told police.

When asked about the child’s safety, Smith said Knott told the officers that she had the box secured to the van with a clothes hanger.
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Summer Reading Breakfast

Last Friday was the Summer Reading Breakfast at school, so I stopped by to schmear some cream cheese on bagels before work.  It’s such a great event – any kid who reads 10 books over the summer and returns their form in September gets to come and have breakfast (bagels, donuts, fruit, juice, munchkins) with their friends, the literacy specialist, and the principal.  Each kid’s name is called and they receive a certificate and a book to keep.  All of the food is donated and the breakfast is organized and run by PTO volunteers so thank you everyone!
I managed to keep track of where the forms were all summer and remembered to send them in when school started (miraculous!), so Aliya and Adlani were there, along with their friends Hannah, Maren, Sophia, Griffin, and Nicky, plus a couple hundred other super-readers.  Congratulations little people!
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Don’t Try This At Home

It’s official.  We are not qualified to replace the belt on our washing machine.  In fact, we’re not qualified to do anything with any appliance other than press the buttons and open and close the door.

In the last 12 days, I have washed 3 loads of laundry…which I squeezed in between when the sewer pipe got unclogged and the washer belt burned up.  Three loads is not nearly enough laundry for a 12-day period, and we have a mound of dirty laundry the size of a Volkswagen Bug.

We spent a long and frustrating part of this evening replacing the belt by using the 18-step instructions we found on the internet. (Note Ben’s blood on the bracket on the right side of the photo.)  My favorite part was when I overheard Ben say to himself, “Now this part is really important, so it HAS to go back in.”  WHAT??  They ALL have to go back in!

The belt has now been replaced, and the washer still doesn’t work.  While we were replacing the belt, I noticed a piece of black rubber in the bottom of the washer.  When Ben pulled it out, I realized that it was a broken brake shoe, and all 3 of the shoes were broken.  Technically you could run the washer without brake shoes as long as you don’t mind losing a hand if you open the lid during the spin cycle, but the big question is WHY did the brake shoes and belt simultaneously self-destruct??

Until I’m proven otherwise, I’m going to blame it on the thoughtful but misguided decision my family made to wash my very dirty car mats in the washer.  Ever since then I’ve occasionally heard a gritty sound while the drum was turning.  I think the sand has probably caught up to us.  I’ll be heading over to Belcher’s after the game tomorrow for a little chat.

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