Before I get into this week’s video wrap up…. I have two pictures to share with you… ‘cuz it’s been an eventful week here at the Rowley house. For one, we’ve experienced our first-ever broken bone among our offspring….
Our sweet Charlotte lost control of her alpine sled while we were on vacation last week… and flipped over. And she broke her collarbone! As I have since learned- you do not cast a broken collarbone, instead you keep her arm in a sling for 6-8 weeks to immobilize it until the bone repairs itself. And I am happy to report that as of today, she is in much less pain and is starting to play outside making houses out of cardboard boxes again with her siblings!
And in other news…..
One of Steve’s beehives decided to swarm this week. Yes, I said swarm. See all those little dots in the sky- those are bees. Thousands of them. Fortunately they gathered in a nearby tree (the one right off of our patio door!), and Steve was able to collect them and start a new hive. But for the record- when I agreed that Steve could keep bees as a hobby- I didn’t sign up for this…. a tornado of bees in our yard!
Now, back to this week’s video….
As back-to-school shopping goes into full swing iVoices Sharon Rowley, Brandi Jeter and Melissa Clouthier give their take on how young girls choose to dress today, and how to talk about positive body image and self-esteem with our daughters.
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The video about young girls and sexy clothes is EXACTLY where we are. After a summer of her begging for paddled bras (she’s 11) and then wearing tank tops with the bra strap showing, thank goodness we started school. Her public middle school has such a strict dress code. On all types of clothing. And unlike some of the high schools that can’t really enforce it, with these younger kids, they put the fear of God into them. You do feel like it is an up hill battle.
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August 20, 2012 at 3:23 pm
Thank goodness for school dress codes! At my son’s school they keep a couple of mean sized XXXL shirts on hand. If the kids wear something that doesn’t meet dress code, they don’t send them home to change…. instead they make them wear this huge shirt over whatever they wore to school! I think that is a great solution!
And your neighbors?! Do they not freak out about your swarming bees?! Oh, and glad Miss Charlotte is healing up nicely!
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August 29, 2012 at 9:25 am
I keep telling my husband that the neighbors are going to revolt if they catch sight of these bee swarms! Luckily, it’s been happening mid-day when not alot of people have been around to see them! We had maybe 5 swarms in an 8-day period…. and now they’ve stopped. Guess they’ve resolved their “queen bee” issues!