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If I said you could help prevent injuries and infant deaths from shaken baby syndrome-without costing you anything but a little time...would you do it? We hear news stories all the time, parents and babysitters killing a child because "he just wouldn't quit crying". We all sit and say, "Thats such a shame!" "That's terrible!" "Horrible!" The little girl or boy might cross your mind a few times that day, but essentially, we go on with our lives. There is something you can do-click on this link and vote for the Period of PURPLE Crying Program
This is an email I recieved today from Lisa Cook, Decat Coordinator
Creston Cluster (Adair, Adams & Union Counties)
Leon Cluster (Ringgold, Decatur, Wayne, Lucas & Clarke Counties)
"Locally we are already implementing the Period of PURPLE Crying in 8 counties in SW Iowa & Prevent Child Abuse Iowa is in the process of implementing it within hospitals in the Des Moines area. The information below is a grant that PCAI is working towards to purchased materials for the Period of PURPLE Crying program"
Apathy: n.
- Lack of interest or concern, especially regarding matters of general importance or appeal; indifference.
- Lack of emotion or feeling; impassiveness.
A couple other resources for you:
dontshake.org
rexhealth.com
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Ring Around the Rosie! A kids song and game-rumored to actually be a song about the Black Plague-I don't know...I wasn't really sure. So I did a little looking and this is what I came up with.
From rhymes.org
From snopes.com
Plus I had to look up something else-I get the text messages warning me about different things, causes and all that. Some are not real of course. I recieved one about strawberry meth-last night. The text says that it's a form of meth that comes in different flavors-and named Strawberry Quik. It also said that you should warn your kids not to take candy from people they don't know or take candy from other kids that they don't know what it is.
Of course I made a joke when I got it, my response..."Proof strangers have the best candy".
Ok, not a joke-meth addiction is hardly funny. So I looked on Snopes.com and yes, it's actually partly true.
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I have talked to my kids about smoking, drinking, drugs. Maybe not the way that a lot of parents do, I don't know. I guess I didn't really talk to other parents before I talked to them. It came up in conversation one night. I think the best way to handle it, is to be honest and not flip out when they ask questions.
Q.: "What would you do if you caught me smoking?"
A: "I would straight up beat the crap out of you."
Q.: "What would you do if I called you drunk and had you come get me?"
A.: "I would be more thankful than you would ever know. Then we would deal with it the next day."
Q.: "What would you do if you found drugs in my room?"
A.: "I'd have to be brave enough to go in there first." Still....See Answer to the first question.
Mostly its a conversation about the long term effects of the usage, after making a bad decision. An example I use is...when I was 16 I wanted to get a tattoo-"one of the coolest things EVA!!!" Right? Of course it was! But now at the age of 3_.....that super cool tat I wanted then, I would be saving my money now to have that same tattoo removed, not covered up-REMOVED! But that's the difference between tattoos and drug use. Tattoos can be removed, the effects of drugs are for the rest of you life-if you get that chance!
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I love the river-it changes all the time, it's so quiet-all the sand and the mud-I've always loved it. Not much of a canoer and I don't really like to fish, but I do like the river.
Last night I got some pictures of the ice on the Grand River before it all melted away.
And this morning on my way to work, the river has had enough snow melt into it, it has flooded this cornfield. The river was full, moving fast and no ice in it this morning. I didn't stop and get a picture off the bridge today though-Early in the morning, I'm just not ready to stand on the bridge when the river is that high-Feeling the water moving under the bridge freaks me out just a little bit.
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You know the snow is deep in some areas-and thankfully the weather is warming up and it's too warm to snow now. But the bad thing is it's warm enough to rain and all the snow isn't gone. Behind the radio station it really isn't gone! It was deep-so we had to call in help from Sharp Construction to get it removed. This is one heck of a snowblower!
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Saturday was the Graceland Tournament-I love going to Graceland University for the kids' games. The campus really is very welcoming and all the staff that helps out at the games are so friendly. Plus being at Graceland brings back a lot of fun times when I was in school-when I got to go on field trips and the Girl Scout overnighters.
Ricky's team got second place in the tournament. They were so excited to make the finals-But we lost by 2 points. And it really was down to the last second-super close, and disappointing for them, but they played so well-all the boys did. They have really come a long way since the beginning of the season!
Guess what!? It's melting! Yes! Melting! This is out our back door...kind of-I had to take the picture out the back window. One of the guys is going to have to push the back door open-It has a big chunk of ice at the bottom where the roof snow has dripped down and froze.
You can see ground! And lots of it!
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A little food for thought...if you want to call it that. Kind of a pun, maybe with the topic in mind.
I have no problem wanting to help out people. I will always help out with our food drive at the radio station to benefit Union County. I will donate at the school for food drives to benefit Decatur County. I have not donated to other countries. I know that may sound a little harsh, but if you agree with me, I'm sure it is pretty strongly. I feel that if every person that is able to, helps out in their own community, we can eventually help our town, county and state. If you already do that and you still want to help another country; great. If not, take a look around your community. Your local food pantry can always use a donation. Have you been by 'tent city' in Des Moines. Homeless and poverty is a way of life for a lot of people right here in Iowa. And I think you would be surprised to find out how many people in your communities have no home of their own, staying with friends or family. They can use your help, until we get our problems solved in our own area, to me, it seems like we are starting one project without finishing another.
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I grew up with toys like Strawberry Shortcake, He-Man, Barbie, GI-Joe, Care Bears, Rainbow Brite, Holly Hobbie, Cabbage Patch Kids and Transformers. So far, *they* have redone and brought back all of those, some even in the movies. Which I think is cool, in fact I have several old Strawberry Shortcake dolls and Care Bears. Plus some of the new ones, everyone knows that's a pretty fail safe gift for me. I don't know what I'll do when my nieces are all too old to play with them and I still want them. I guess I won't be able to use the excuse of "the girls will love that", I'll have to admit I still love my dolls. Although, the new look is ok, I still like the old versions better. It's crazy the amount of websites dedicated to these toys....Timeless Trinkets is a great website (mostly for girls' toys, but bigbadtoy.com has a lot of the boys' stuff!)
Click here to watch Rainbow Brite!
Holly Hobbie doesn't seem quite the same.....
 
Smurfs!
And I'm pretty sure if you dug up where our sandbox was at, you would find several matchbox cars and probably many many full sets of Dukes of Hazzard Cars.
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From KCCI.....Chupacabra or raccoon? I think for me to decide they would have to shave down a raccoon for comparison.
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The Morning Ran Red (Villisca Axe Murder) and Lion Among Men....my two new books and I don't know which one to start first! I'm almost done with Son Of A Witch. I have heard a lot of people say they didn't care for the book Wicked. I can say that if you didn't like Wicked, I don't think you would like Son Of A Witch, and you really would have to read one to understand the other.
I have several books I have bought and never read....I love the used book store uptown, which is where I found The Morning Ran Red.
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Spring Fever:
n.
A feeling of restlessness, excitement, or laziness brought on by the coming of spring
I think it is safe to say my kids have spring fever. I don't imagine that I'm an alone parent either.
I found on some website about spring fever can cause an outburst of silliness in your children. Spring fever is what causes that? My kids must have it year round. Be it the boys 'just working on their hand eye coordination' on the dining room wall with the basketball. Then of course the window that had to be replaced-broken with a baseball from the inside-not outside. Joey found out the hard way-pitching into the Lazyboy isn't totally safe afterall....they haven't started wearing their summer clothes yet or smelling the dirt in the houseplants. I suppose that's next. But they are going a little stir crazy-thankfully the weather seems to be holding out for the time being!
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I love finding websites with odd things-this is a sugar shaker-some of the things on this website,really-too cool. You gotta take a look. I'm really diggin the elf hats...
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I'm sure-if you have young kids around-you've seen the papers from the school about 'anti-bullying'. I think it's great that now there's a law protecting these kids from getting pushed around. In some cases it is absolutely horrible what some kids have to go through and now maybe it can be stopped.
But...then you have these parents that are using it. "My kid is being bullied!" when really what that boils down to is, your kid is getting picked on once in awhile and dishes out as much as he gets. Then you have a parent bully situation.
You know the kind of parents I'm talking about. The kind that are all ready to get up in everyone's face, phone calls to everyone but you-telling how they are going to tell you what's what, then back down when it's show time. And always-their little Johnny would never do something like that!
I always thought of myself as an open minded parent. I know my children are not angels, they cuss, they fight with other kids, and I'm sure they have started a few themselves. But for the most part they are pretty well behaved. I'm not too surprised to find out things that my kids have done. Especially Joey. (I would like to apologize now to any substitute teacher for the Central Decatur 7th grade FYI: My son does not have a nervous twitch, stutter, or his he unable to control his spit when he talks. He may switch names with another student, and in some cases he goes by Bob and calls everyone Betty.) Don't laugh, it only encourages him.
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Ben sent me this link-you can look up any school and see if they were in the state tournament-just enter a town you're interested in and you find out the year, score and opposing team! Pretty cool--Grand River made it in 1953
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Waiting for movies to come out! (According to Amazon.com)
New Moon is released March 16th
The Princess and The Frog-March 16th
The Blind Side-March 23rd
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High Performance
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You know I'm always looking for something cool to do for the kids. And if you know me, you know the kids can be just the excuse I use to make things like rainbow jello. Looking up random stuff one day I found this recipe-
6oz box of blue, yellow and red jello plus a box of knox gelatin. To get layers, mix the blue jello with an envelope of the knox gelatin. Pour in two cups of boiling water. Dissolve the gelatin. Add 1/2 cup of ice. Stir until thick. Remove any remaining ice cubes and any bubbles that may have formed. Pour into a 9×13 inch pan. Let set in the refrigerator.
Repeat with the yellow jello and pour it over the set blue. Repeat with the red jello and pour it over the yellow. And there you have it, Rainbow Jello.
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Speaking of rainbows....What Makes a Rainbow? is an awesome book-but here's a link on how to make your own.
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The weather is really looking nice! No one is complaining! I love it! Anyone who works with the public knows what I'm talking about.you hear the same thing over and over again- like, "Shut the snow off" among many others. But weather-huge topic of conversation! You can't help but talk about it and you can't help but want to know about it.
I did hear something new from someone that came into KSIB. She said, "My grandpa used to say, March leaves the ditches how she found them." I kind of like that-the saying, not the fact that there could be snow still on the ground by April.
It won't be too long and we'll be complaining about the mud.
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There's a count down on!
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No more mail on Saturdays- Whataya think about that? Could be kind of like the whole get rid of August thing. No, I think there's a little more to it than that. I have to admit, quite often I don't remember to get my mail on Saturdays. I don't know what kind of impact that it would have on me. Other than I will sit in my house and watch-hoping my neighbors will forget and go to their boxes on Saturdays so I can laugh at them. ;) (Don't worry they will get their chance to laugh at me I'm sure. Actually I'm pretty sure I'm amusing all the time for them) Example A would be when I had an Easter Egg hunt at my house in July.
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I don't know if our gutter plugged up on the ends or why we got these HUGE icicles on the front of our house-The boys couldn't wait to knock them down!
Ricky had a tournament on Saturday in Leon-Here we are playing I-35
(The day before the big birthday!)
The first of many baseballs this year! The first thing the boys did with it was pass it back and forth smelling it. Yes, smelling it. They are so ready for baseball season!
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Cartoons-Good Cartoons
Floppy? Thought I would take a chance and see what I could find on the old beagle...
I didn't watch Betty Lou, but I have heard an awful lot about that show
How about the Magic Window with Betty Lou?
I did, however watch Caption Kangaroo
Mr. Rogers passed away February 27th, 2003. I hardly ever missed a show. I think about the best time to watch Mr. Rogers was in the winter. I don't know why, just seems like that.
Cats really don't like it when you paint them either.
I was always pulling for Wiley Coyote to get the Roadrunner-just once.
And I always wanted one of the anvils from the ACME Corporation.
"There's something kind of 'eee-yew' about a boy who doesn't like baseball." -Foghorn Leghorn
Foghorn Leghorn reminds me so much of so many.....
Tom and Jerry-nuff said. Not the new ones, that's not even fair.
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Alice in Wonderland-I loved it when I was little and Savannah loved it when she was little, now apparently Alice is older and goes back to Wonderland. I really would like to see it, as long as I can get over my fear of Johnny Depp.
There's just something unsettling about him when he puts on makeup. I still have not watched Charlie and The Chocolate Factory all the way through. Secret Garden is one of my favorite movies, so I'm thinking it's just when he is in some kind of strange costume.
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Living green!!! Maybe this is a little more green than what you would like to live, but still I had to post this. It's actually a really cool idea...it's newspaper yarn.
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I got a call this morning asking about this song-WHO IS IT???? It's a pretty powerful song, and he's pretty new. The Call by Matt Kennon definitely deserves a couple minutes.
I've posted about Matt Kennon before....and you've probably heard The Call on Creston Radio....here's the video.
You can become a fan of Matt Kennon on Facebook and on MySpace. Plus there's more music to listen to.
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Adam Lambert 'mocking' Susan Boyle? The saying that comes to mind is the one about glass houses.
No, I don't really care for Adam Lambert. It's not because I don't think he has a good voice, because he paints his nails and wears makeup, it's none of that. I just think he's a whiny baby and he irritates me.
As for Susan Boyle, she does have a pretty remarkable story. And her voice really is an awesome find. I did consider buying her CD when it came out. I didn't do it. I thought, "Am I really going to listen to it?" The answer is no, I'm not. Bottom line, I don't really like that kind of music.
Here's the Stones and Wild Horses
G&R did it too....
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Hello Kitty says Hello Beer...hmmm-I don't think JR would be caught dead drinking it. It's supposed to have a box like a purse so women would want to drink it. They didn't have to go that far, I would drink it just because it has Hello Kitty on it. (Buahahahahaha!) This reminds me of when I picked up my nephew and we went to the store to pick out our food for the night. Everything he picked out had some kind of cartoon character or superhero on the package. So I guess they know what they're doing. Just a little insulting maybe that marketing to women would be so similar to marketing to 6 year olds.
Hello Kitty Wine?
Maybe you don't want the Hello Kitty wine; I found this website you can find wine with any kind of 'critter' you would want from an aardvark to a mermaid to a zebra.
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And this would be why I'm not asked to babysit all that often....
You've heard of the Freedom Rock (If you haven't heard of it, you gotta check it out!). So, Bubba has been nominated by his lovely wife Maria for Red Book Magazine's "America's Hottest Husband 2010" contest.
Vote for Ray Sorensen! (Ray S.)
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Look what I found on Youtube! Recognize anyone???
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Check it out....Man eating catfish?
(snopes link!)
After some mysterious drownings...this is the suspect. A man eating catfish. It's an email that is circulating
the Chinese-language internet. True or not, who knows. They are debating if it is in fact a man eating catfish or a whale shark. If it is a whale shark or a giant catfish, the dissected it on the street. Probably not the best thing to have done!
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Here's a picture from Central Decatur student Chelsea Shea.
Chelsea, among many more Cardinals were at Wells Fargo cheering on Connor Christensen this past week.
If anyone else has any state wrestling pictures they would like to share-email them to ksib@ksibradio.com
Adventurland had a fire this weekend-a BIG fire-"Main Street" burned. That's really too bad. Here's the KCCI link plus pictures.
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I had a phone call this afternoon from a dad, he had just admitted his son for huffing. It is an addiction and it is extremely dangerous. I'm not saying that any drug is safe and I am not condoning any kind of drug use by saying this. But, huffing is not like other many other drugs. One, you can buy this drug for less than $5.00 off the shelf at almost any store. Two, you need no need for an ID to buy it, you don't even have to ask for it. Three, it can kill you the first time you huff. Four, it is very hard to see some of the warning signs. Five, not a lot of kids see huffing as bad as other drugs.
"Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome is caused in one of two ways. First, Inhalants force the heart to beat rapidly and erratically until the user goes into cardiac arrest. Second, the fumes from an Inhalant enter a user's lungs and central nervous system. By lowering oxygen levels enough, the user is unable to breathe and suffocates. Regular abuse of these substances can result in serious harm to vital organs including the brain, heart, kidneys and liver."
Please click on the website and read it. I think you would be surprised at some of the warning signs.
One story that has stuck with me was about a boy found dead in his bed one morning when his mother tried to wake him up for school. She found him with a can of Dust Off in bed. I looked the story up, and found it on Snopes.com, with the status of True.
The father I talked to, really wanted to try and have more parents become aware of huffing. He has the chance for his son to get better.
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Avon! My mom sold Avon when I was little and I had my fair share of perfume and lipstick samples...and plenty for all my friends when they came over! I loved that shipment of Avon when it came in-Avon has changed a little since then, and so have the ladies!
One bad Avon Lady!---Stacy Miller-You're one tough chick!
It played out like this-An Avon meeting, one of Stacy's fellow reps had her purse stolen. Instead of watching the guy just run away, Stacy took off after him! Didn't catch up to him (too bad I know-Avon lady kicks the crap out of a purse snatcher would have been even more awesome!). But later on that night, she sees him at a convenience store, cops are called and the guy is in jail.
That guy thought stealing a purse from a bunch of Avon ladies was going to be easy....think again!
If you want Stacy to be YOUR Avon Lady-email me! I'll be glad to hook you up!
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You've probably always heard that you can't die of a broken heart. I don't think that is necessarily true. Savannah wasn't quite a year old yet, we lived across the street from a couple, I think they were in their late 70's. They kind of adopted me and Savannah.(My husband was in Germany for Operation Joint Endeavor at the time, so it was just us) Dorothy would call me everyday and visit, sometimes we would talk for 3 hours at a time. Glen and Dorothy were just about the nicest people you would ever meet. Once there was a huge snowstorm, Dorothy was so worried Savannah and I were stuck in the house without milk, she said, "Now we have a gallon here I'll send Glen over with it if you need it, we just aren't going to drink a drop of it in case you need it!" I finally convinced her that we were ok.
In our conversations Dorothy had told me how she would never be able to live without Glen. "If he dies before me, I'll die of a broken heart." That summer Glenn had a stroke, and we found out he had a brain tumor. He lived a few months, Dorothy passed away not quite a month later. She was right, she really couldn't live without him.
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We just don't hear a lot of Lorrie Morgan much anymore-This is one of my favorite songs from her.
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Wishing the weather was this warm!
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Oh my-my---I love this picture! It's from one of my Facebook friends-From Southern Georgia-
Yup! That's a palm tree with snow on it! (You thought we were having weird weather!) She said it was the first snow fall like that in 15 years-
Thank LaKeya for sharing!!
Here's the article I posted about earlier, the DNR is asking for help in keeping track of the nests of bald eagles. Basically you 'adopt' one of the nests that need watched. (Thank you Michael for helping me!)
Jennifer sent these great pictures of an Eagle located about 4 miles on High and Dry Road Saturday afternoon. He was grazing on a deer carcass in the ditch when I went down to the road to take come pics. He of course flew off into the neighbors tree where I was able to snap some shots of him before he flew to the trees.
Here's a link to a great eagle website
Plus I got some snow shots in!
Snowman Crossing!
Thanks for the great pictures!!
I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. ~Tom Clark
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