When Should Your Child Stay Home?

The nurses at Keisha's preschool gave us this information at the Open House. Some of it is self-explanatory, but some of it might not be.

If your child has any of the following symptoms he/she should be kept at home and the teacher notified of the reason for the absence.

• Fever
• Vomiting
• Diarrhea (one or more loose stools in a 24-hour period)
• Unexplained rash
• Red, watery or draining eyes
• Open sores, especially around the nose or mouth
• Bugs or eggs in the hair
• Earache or ear drainage
• Yellow or green drainage from the nose
• More than an occasional cough
• Wheezing/difficulty breathing
• Unable to eat or drink a regular diet

If your child is not interested in playing and eating and wants to lie down, he/she should be watched and the child's temperature checked. Do not send the child to school if you give a fever-reducing medicine such as Tylenol.

Question for you, gentle reader: what is it about the symptoms above that makes them important enough to warrant keeping a child home from school?

Earn Free Stuff For Your School

Campbell's Labels for Education - Earn Free Stuff For Your School

Help your child's school earn educational equipment this year simply by saving the labels from any of hundreds of varieties of Campbell product and sending them to school with your child. Some of the products eligible for redemption in the program include

• Campbell's Soups
• Campbell's Supper Bakes Meal Kits
• Franco-American Spaghetti O's pasta
• Prego pasta sauces
• Swanson broths and canned poultry
• Pace salsa and picante sauces
• V8 and V8 Splash juices
• Campbell's tomato juice
• Pepperidge Farm breads, cookies, crackers, and frozen products
• Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers
• Campbell's Food Service products

For a complete listing of participating Campbell products, visit the Labels for Education website.

Contact your school's program coordinator if you have any questions or would like to take an active role in this year's Labels for Education collection drive.

Stay-at-Home Dad

Since Jennie has been working during the day for the past four weeks and recently picked up another job in the evenings, I've become somewhat of a stay-at-home Dad. It's different in a good way:

I get to take Keisha to her weekly speech therapy appointments. We get to hang out together and do fun stuff like go to the library, stop by the UDF (United Dairy Farmers) near the University of Dayton for a soda. We did all three yesterday (Friday).

At 8:30 AM we dropped Jennie off at work and then stopped by the UDF on Brown Street because we were thirsty. We noticed that they had 3 Krispy Kreme donuts for $1.79, so we bought some. After we sat down, Keisha and I began eating our donuts, and I brought out my Bible and told Keisha that we were going to read something from it together. I found the Parable of the Lost Sheep. Then we did our memory verse from this past Tuesday night's Family Devotional, Psalm 37:4.

After this we drove to the clinic to see if my medicine was available for me to pick up. No dice. Then we drove to Children's Medical Center, where Keisha has her speech therapy. She did really well - picking up a lot of vocabulary.

Then we drove to the Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library to check out some videos and some CDs. We also got some books for Keisha to read. They have an entire shelf in the Children's book area devoted to new readers. Cool! We checked out Raffi's Singable Songs Collection, which we all love! She's actually been listening to Raffi since she was a couple months old and I'd sing her the songs from the Singable Songs for the Very Young album.

	The Singable Songs Collection 20th Anniversary Special Edition 3 Albums: Singable Songs for the Very Young, More Singable Songs for the Very Young and Corner Grocery Store 1996
	Singable Songs for the Very Young 1976

Myers-Briggs Type Prayers

Bene Diction Blogs On: Myers-Briggs Type Prayers

A couple of these fit me:

• ENFJ: God, help me to do only what I can and trust you for the rest. Do you mind putting that in writing?
  
• ENFP: God, help me to keep my mind on one th - Look a bird! - at a time.

MSNBC | Weblog Central - Blogspotting

MSNBC | Weblog Central - Blogspotting

From the September 26, 2002 2:40 ET post:

Once upon a time, before the Internet revolutionized public discourse, there was only one sure way for a person to become a pundit: get a job as a journalist and hold forth from the pages of a newspaper, magazine or a broadcast organization.

But now, with the explosion of personal online journals known as Weblogs, anyone with something to say and access to the right software can be a publisher, a pundit and observer of events great and small.

Weblogs — personal online journals, saturated with attitude and rich with links to Internet resources — have transformed and democratized the media landscape. What had once quietly flourished in the grassroots of cyberspace has now burst into the mainstream, transforming the way Internet news and communities are perceived.

That’s why MSNBC is launching Weblog Central, your gateway to the world of personal news.

This page will serve as a perch from which you can observe and participate in the brave new world of personal news. We hope you’ll make it a daily destination.

Memory Hole

The Memory Hole is about rescuing knowledge and freeing information. Such as...

Morpheus in a Matrimonial Matrix with Alias's Anna Espinosa

Yahoo! News - E! Online | Morpheus in a Matrimonial Matrix with Alias's Anna Espinosa

Lawrence Fishburne and actress Gina Torres were married last weekend "at the Cloisters museum in New York, Fisburne's publicist, Alan Nierob, confirmed today."

Fishburne is most recently known for being Neo's (played by Keaunu Reeves) mentor in the Matrix sequels. (By the way, both sequels will be released next year; The Matrix: Reloaded in May and The Matrix: Revolutions in November.) Torres, who will also appear in both sequels, is better known to Alias fans as Jennifer Garner's nemesis, Anna Espinosa.

Libel law applies to blogs, too<

from September 16th post at Blogroots | Culture

Google News!

"Google News presents information culled from approximately 4,000 news sources worldwide and automatically arranged to present the most relevant news first. Topics are updated continuously throughout the day, so you will see new stories each time you check the page. Google has developed an automated grouping process for Google News that pulls together related headlines and photos from thousands of sources worldwide -- enabling you to see how different news organizations are reporting the same story. You pick the item that interests you, then go directly to the site which published the account you wish to read." from "A Novel Approach to News"

Operating System Preferences

It appears that most people prefer Linux to Mac and Windows, according to results from "a periodic AltaVista search for each of several operating systems, directly followed by 'sucks', 'rules', or 'rocks'."

Thanks to Mike for the link.