Category: Family

For all of your information, I am currently taking any donations to the “Will needs a sport coat/suit” non-profit organization. The main goals of the group is too get me proper attire for my new calling as 2nd counselor in the Branch Presidency of the Coconino (Native American) Branch. I guess my white shirt, tie and kakhis won’t cut it anymore. For more information and a free brochure please send check/money order to:
Will Freeman
4255 E. Soliere Ave. #125
Flagstaff, AZ. 86004

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I heard this somewhere and I don’t really understand. Can anyone clear it up for me?

Roger……Roger, get off my motorcycle.

It’s one of those famous last words that a parent will often say to a child just has he/she embarks on a sick inducing activity. So I was at Nick’s soccer game yesterday (they won 1-0), and contrary to what most people do at their child’s soccer game (watch the game), we always have to watch Ashlee play on the playground the whole time. It just so happens that all the playgrounds at the parks Nick’s games are at are at least 100 yards or more away from the soccer fields.

As I was “supervising” Ashlee, she finally hopped on the merry-go-round. So I start spinning her. At first she sat near the edge so she could get the full g-force affect. I couldn’t really push her as fast as possible because it would get to a point where Ashlee would tell me to stop pushing. That was fun and all for about 8 minutes. Then Ashlee decided it was time to get down to business.

At this point she was now the only one on the merry-go-round. So she moves to the exact middle of the contraption and gave her order, “Push now, Dad!” So I proceeded to push. Ashlee yelled, “Faster, faster!” So I pushed faster. “Faster, faster!” I push faster.

“Faster, Dad!”

“You’re going to get sick.”

“Faster, faster, Dad!”

“OK.”

I pushed faster and then just let the thing spin. After a time that I arbitraily deemed “safe”, I stopped the merry-go-round and decided to push it this time in the opposite direction. I was holding on to the theory that this would somehow delay the sick inducing effects. We repeated the whole dialog as above.

It was while I was waiting for the merry-go-round to slow down the second time that I realized Ashlee was on one of those “magic” merry-go-rounds. You know, the kind you always wished you were on when you were a kid. The kind that actually doesn’t slow down unless acted upon by an outside force. Ashlee was currently riding one of these.

We repeated the whole thing again, and again, and again, changing directions each time. I kept asking her, “Are you OK?” She always replied with a vigorous, “Yes.” She even got to the point where she would swing her head around as she twirled, often banging it on the metal handles to obvioulsy no affect. Finally, after maybe 15-20 minutes of 60-75rpm per minute, I figured we’d better get back to Nick’s game before it ends as we had brought the post-game treats for the team.

I slowed the merry-go-round down one last time. Ashlee looked fine, until we came to a complete stop. She got that blank stare look on her face. You know the look, the, “I think about about to be sick,” look. I wonder why. She slowly stood up and climbed into my arms. She wrapped her arms around me and she wouldn’t let me put her down and she wasn’t speaking at all. This was unusual as she normally wants to run free when we’re out at the park. So I had to carry her the 150 yards to the soccer field.

We got back to the game (it was the start of the 4th quarter). I sat down in our chair and Ashlee cuddled up in my arms and didn’t move the rest of the time. I asked, “All you all right?” and she’d feebly answer, “Yes,” in the tiniest of voices.

I asked, “Do you fill sick?”

Again in her still small voice, “Yes, I’m dizzy.”

I had to carry her back the 150 yards to the car along with the chair, Nick’s soccer bag, and my training kit I had brought along. I hate to say, “I told you so…”

Apologies for the brief break. I’ve been slammed this week with homework (3 separate assignments plus a quiz all due earlier this evening) and Becky’s been slammed with two kids and a puppy (I think she’s busier than I am). So I’m much behind in posting. Anyway, I thought I’d throw out a couple of ideas I’ve come up with for the site.

First up, my next “project” as soon as school allows me is to integrate the look of our main page into second mesa. Same color scheme, same graphics, etc. Now, here’s the main idea I’ve been tossing around. I’ve been thinking on and off since I started messing with WordPress (the software that manages our blog) that I may move this over to the main page and just have our whole site be the blog. Now, some of you may be thinking, what about our individual sections? Well, I could handle this two ways. The first would be to make all our separate sections into categories. Although technically we wouldn’t have our own sections anymore, all someone would have to do is click the Becky & Jere category to get all the posts about Becky and me. Although this is great as posting is tons easier and searching for old posts is tons easier, it kind of takes away our own sections. After all, I think it’s better for large photo galleries that often get posted to be on their own page and not part of the blog in general.

Next idea, is to move second mesa over to the front page of the whole site, and keep our individual sections separate. As I sit here and think about it, I’m kind of leaning toward this idea. Besides, it’s been awhile since I posted any “announcements” on our main home page as they tend to get posted here first. I think the easiest way to do this is to just have the main page redirect to the blog. Actually, I think I just talked (or is it wrote) myself into the second idea.

Anyway, just thinking out loud.

In other news…

The house is done, and I told Pops I’d try and get the pictures up this week. So I’ll try to get the pictures up this week.

Look for another rendition of “The missing photos” soon. I think I may make this a category also.

And finally, thanks again to all of you who generously donated to our diabetes walk. We were overwhelmed with the amount of donations this time around and we really appreciate it. And yes, I’ve got pictures, they’ll go up soon.

Every year since we’ve known about the walk for diabetes held by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, we’ve tried to participate. The purpose of the event (which is held in many locations across the US) is to help raise money for research to help find a cure for Type I diabetes (the kind Becky has).

We are walking this year on September 18th. If you’d like to donate to the cause, please click the following link to go straight to the page Becky has set up for online donations.

JDRF – Welcome to Rebecca Freeman’s Fundraising Page!

Thanks a ton to everyone that has already donated. Even though we’ve reached our goal, we can still collect donations. And if you need to find the link quickly after this post is no longer on the front page, we’ve put a link on the right hand side of the page under Favorites, “Support Team Freeman!”. We’ll post a picture after we walk.