Overprotective

I am, apparently, an overprotective parent. I do not let my 8 year old ride her bike around the neighborhood alone. I also see no point in my 8 year old having a Facebook page. Am I in the minority? I ask these things because I see them happen on a daily basis. My daughter has friends who show up on our doorstep on their bikes wanting to know if they can play. If we are home, they come in and play and don’t have to call their parents to say where they are, or let them know that we are home. They have a curfew, but don’t wear watches and don’t have a cell phone. I wonder what they do when they stop and we’re not home. Do they ride their bikes around for the next hour and a half? Do they stop by other friends’ houses to play? If they don’t go back home, how do they know what time it is? My daughter is still learning how to ride her bike down the street without getting run over, so I cannot imagine just letting her run free. I also don’t understand what an 8 year old has to do on Facebook. Her friends don’t need to know what she’s doing. She doesn’t take a lot of pictures. She doesn’t have a phone with internet. So are her friends actually on Facebook? Or do their parents run their pages to share pictures and stories of their children? If so, why can’t they just share stuff on their page? I can’t imagine my daughter having a need for her own Facebook page yet, let alone having the time for one. I also don’t have the time to sit and police what she does on Facebook. And you know I’d have to police what she does on Facebook because I’m so overprotective. Am I?

iPhone

I just found out I can post from my iPhone!

Squidy Girl: Let's Play a Game Part 2: Women vs. Tropes + Trolling Felicia Day

Squidy Girl: Let's Play a Game Part 2: Women vs. Tropes + Trolling Felicia Day

I was playing with my daughter's guinea pig, Noodle, and had some of my Star Trek figures and, well you see the results.

Another week almost over.  In my effort to make my life simpler (ha!), I've been trying to sleep train Emmett.  Considering this was only night 2 I'm impressed that it's going as well as it is.  We'll see if I have the same sentiment in a week!

We went to the drive-in (yes, we still have those here!) this weekend and saw The Hunger Games.  Was anybody else disappointed that they had the wrong color of cat in the movie?  I mean, really, with all of the cats that the studio probably had to choose from they couldn't find a yellow one?  That just set the tone of the entire movie off for me.  Anyone else?

Emmett, my darling (lol) 2 year old was helping me wash the dishes last night when....he decided that my iPhone needed washed, so he grabbed it out of my pocket and threw it in the dishwater!  After a split second of panic I grabbed it out and dried it off with a towel.  It actually took me a minute to pry my (awesome) Star Trek Engineering division cover off of my phone, but I was able to dry it off and it seems none the worse for wear.  Hopefully Steve Jobs is smiling at me from nerd heaven and will keep it that way!