Dana Edwards’ Blog

I am still new to my iPhone and because of that, I am looking at every way possible to use it. My hope is that I will figure out the best and optimal way to suggest to others as well as make my own life simpler. There is probably a side of my family that sees the good and the bad of all this mobility and integration.

Anyways, here is how this blog entry came to be. First, I had to buy a mobile device. The biggest deliberation was determining if I would ever use it and after that whether I wanted an iPhone or a Pre. I ended up choosing an iPhone because I didn’t like the keyboard or the size of the Pre. After choosing the iPhone, I spent a few moments opening up the app store and installing the Wordpress app. Configuration of the app took almost no time at all – just enter my URL, my userid and then my password. I was up and running in just a few moments. There was really nothing to it at all.

More importantly, my evening was filled with a fun event with Claire, Brennan and Jill catching fireflies. I was responsible for Lucy and taking the photos. Jill and Brennan caught all of the fireflies while Claire ran around the yard carrying he jar. It was a lot of fun and gave me a fun topic to end my blog entry.

- Dana

Lucy is hiding and ready to pounce on the owl!

-Dana

Today, Brennan suggested we go on a family “bike hike”, which I later understood is his way of saying let’s go biking.  Really not much occurred on the bike hike except that we went down to the Highland Creek golf course and looked at some electric boxes, my wife was attacked by a pair of shih tzus and we saw a little weird green guy.  I love the idea of

the green guy which is pretty evident when you look at him. I don’t see the need to get one at this point given we live in a cul-de-sac and we dont get many people speeding in our cul-de-sac except perhaps the occasional NASCAR enthusiast doing laps. I am just really happy that Brennan is riding faster and more comfortably every day.

Here is a link to the Family Action Movie.

-Dana

I am so happy to have found this video of the Candy Band. It reminds me of when I was younger and would go to the movies. I hope you enjoy it, too!

-Dana

Someone knew I was fascinated with Snuggies and sent me this remarkable chart:

Well, what can I say? Brennan is in love with electricity right now and especially high and low voltage electric lines. While at his parent / teacher conference, his teacher indicated that he may have trouble telling stories in sequence. So, I asked him to tell me a story. First, he told me the story, then we drew it on the storyboard and then we made a movie. The following video is that story.

After this, he asked me to make 2 more stories so we will make those soon.

Hope you liked it.

Dana

Well, it’s January 2nd and I am just now getting a reasonable list of resolutions together. This year, I think I will group my resolutions into categories to try and make them a little bit more logical. Who knows? Maybe, I will be able to track them and actually keep all of them!

1. Take better care of myself
   1. Find an exercise I like
   2. Determine frequency of exercise
   3. Do the exercise on that frequency
2. Help the environment
   1. Find a way to save water by the end of January 2009
   2. Do that way of saving water
3. Build stronger relationships with my kids
   1. Spend 1 day per month with each kid solo
   2. Build a science experiment each month with Brennan
   3. Attend all of my kids’ school events
   4. Attend all of my kids’ sports events
   5. Enroll Brennan in soccer
   6. Coach Brennan in basketball again
   7. Help Brennan learn to swim
   8. Help Claire learn to swim
   9. Take the kids to the snow
4. Help around the house more
   1. Find a chore that needs to be done better by end of January
   2. Pick that chore up and do it for the year.
5. Be home for dinner 3 nights per week
6. Call my parents once per week
7. Build stronger relationships with friends
   1. Restart “guy’s night”
   2. Restart the bi-monthly gatherings
8. NEW ADD: Attend all of Bentley’s meetings.

Well, that is my list. I tried to stay away from the “lose ten pounds” and “be better” resolutions as those never get done.  If you read this and have any thoughts, please feel free to post them.

Dana