Skating on the thin edge of life

I'm freshly back from my second morning of hockey, and it was a bad morning at that. Well, any morning playing hockey is better than most, but when you are a goalie, as I am, and you get beaten like a rented mule, like I did, it gets a little frustrating. It's just pickup hockey, and it's with a great group who's roots go back for 30 years or more. Luckily, we just go back on the ice next Tuesday morning and start over.

By the way, have I mentioned just how bright my girls are (hey, if I can't brag on my own blog, where can I?-)? The other evening at dinner, Rhiannon, the oldest (just turned 6), wanted to know what the word "chicanery" meant! I almost spit out my burger! Turns out, the characters on their favorite kids show, Cyberchase, were worried about "Hacker's chicanery" - and who says watching TV is bad? Anyway, we've all been practicing using the word. Very funny to see Adrienne (almost 5) talking about "falling for my chicanery" - I think the kindergarten teachers might be pretty impressed:-)

Speaking of an impressive Adrienne, in order to keep up with her big sister, she works very hard at doing the same stuff. So she's reading the simple books and doing very well at it. Last night, we were reading Dora's Picnic, a book written like a rebus, but with plenty of words. In one case, she was reading about "The bread is filled with blueberries and nuts" and instead started to read "full of blueberries". When she backtracked and reread it correctly, she explained that if there was only one kind, it would be "full" and with two things, it was "filled with" - too funny!

I hope the new blog works out. I upgraded my server to use the brand spankin' new MovableType 3.2. And I was glad to see that the free version has really been expanded. Now you can have as many blogs as you want, but only one author. Before you were limitted to just 3 blogs. And the price for the full, Personal version has dropped to US$39, which lets you have up to 5 authors and tech support.