Comments for Crissy Blanos http://crissy.blanos.com explore my world Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:51:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 Comment on Passionless by Crissy http://crissy.blanos.com/2009/06/09/passionless/#comment-35734 Sun, 23 May 2010 23:18:26 +0000 http://crissy.blanos.com/2009/06/09/passionless/#comment-35734 Dave - I just noticed that you wrote this comment. To address your concerns, please let me share a few details...Last year was a trying year for me and I used the blog as an outlet to express my thoughts and feelings. Sometimes I wanted to hear advice and sometimes I wanted to just get my words out. I have worked through my passionless feelings and currently teach the online web design course and I am deciding if I have time to create the next level course. I am a very devoted teacher, even through the trying times and will help any student who is willing. I'm not sure if you or your kids are thinking of taking my online class this summer, but rest assured that no matter what is going on in my person life, there is no sign of it in the classroom (virtual or otherwise). Dave - I just noticed that you wrote this comment. To address your concerns, please let me share a few details…Last year was a trying year for me and I used the blog as an outlet to express my thoughts and feelings. Sometimes I wanted to hear advice and sometimes I wanted to just get my words out. I have worked through my passionless feelings and currently teach the online web design course and I am deciding if I have time to create the next level course. I am a very devoted teacher, even through the trying times and will help any student who is willing. I’m not sure if you or your kids are thinking of taking my online class this summer, but rest assured that no matter what is going on in my person life, there is no sign of it in the classroom (virtual or otherwise).

]]> Comment on Passionless by Dave Hartmann http://crissy.blanos.com/2009/06/09/passionless/#comment-35694 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:05:29 +0000 http://crissy.blanos.com/2009/06/09/passionless/#comment-35694 What has changed in the past Yr to encourage us to take your Web Design Course. Can u suggest a teacher that is interested in teaching the subject matter that is offering this type of course online for credit this summer? Thanks for your frankness and I'll keep my comments to myself. Dave Hartmann PS- To address your life's struggle. FOCUS is your problem I think . If you can't Focus you cant do your best. If you cant you are unhappy. Maybe a part-time Nanny to let you give more time to Focus. I have always loved my job but now find it a struggle since since I have focused much time on keeping my kids on track though the most important Junior Yr in College at Penn State. The last one is almost done with Junior year with a advertising / marketing degree which is why I trying to get a read on u as a teacher for Web Design at MCCC. - i hope you are reading this so i didnt waste my time writing. dh What has changed in the past Yr to encourage us to take your Web Design Course. Can u suggest a teacher that is interested in teaching the subject matter that is offering this type of course online for credit this summer?

Thanks for your frankness and I’ll keep my comments to myself.

Dave Hartmann

PS- To address your life’s struggle. FOCUS is your problem I think . If you can’t Focus you cant do your best. If you cant you are unhappy. Maybe a part-time Nanny to let you give more time to Focus. I have always loved my job but now find it a struggle since since I have focused much time on keeping my kids on track though the most important Junior Yr in College at Penn State. The last one is almost done with Junior year with a advertising / marketing degree which is why I trying to get a read on u as a teacher for Web Design at MCCC. - i hope you are reading this so i didnt waste my time writing. dh

]]> Comment on Poor Obama by Kiirekass http://crissy.blanos.com/2009/07/06/263/#comment-34718 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:11:00 +0000 http://crissy.blanos.com/2009/07/06/263/#comment-34718 Hey now, even those of us in big SUV's like smooth roads :) I say have Aiden write Obama and ask for some of those stimulus $$ for the roads in your town. Supposedly road's are where a lot of the funds were supposed to go, weren't they? Obama might get a chuckle out of it! Hey now, even those of us in big SUV’s like smooth roads :) I say have Aiden write Obama and ask for some of those stimulus $$ for the roads in your town. Supposedly road’s are where a lot of the funds were supposed to go, weren’t they? Obama might get a chuckle out of it!

]]> Comment on Why?!? by Kiirekass http://crissy.blanos.com/2009/07/16/why/#comment-34717 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:07:26 +0000 http://crissy.blanos.com/2009/07/16/why/#comment-34717 Sounds very familiar, though now I am getting the reverse. As I explain very thoroughly why my oldest shouldn't do something, she frequently tells me, "That's enough talk about that, let's move on." I kid you not, just happened again today as I explained to her why she shouldn't climb on the counter, stand up and get the lollipops from the shelf in the cabinet. I don't know which is worse, the why's, what's or let's move on's. It's all frustrating somehow. Sounds very familiar, though now I am getting the reverse. As I explain very thoroughly why my oldest shouldn’t do something, she frequently tells me, “That’s enough talk about that, let’s move on.” I kid you not, just happened again today as I explained to her why she shouldn’t climb on the counter, stand up and get the lollipops from the shelf in the cabinet. I don’t know which is worse, the why’s, what’s or let’s move on’s. It’s all frustrating somehow.

]]> Comment on Why?!? by Stephanie http://crissy.blanos.com/2009/07/16/why/#comment-34634 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:45:39 +0000 http://crissy.blanos.com/2009/07/16/why/#comment-34634 Oh the why phase! My son is in the 'what' phase. He asks what everything is even when he knows darn well what it is. I'm dreading the 'why' phase. But hey, isn't it great that they are so inquisitive? I hear that's a sign of intelligence. What no one tells us is that while our children are exhibiting signs of intellect we mommy's are slowly going insane. Oh the why phase! My son is in the ‘what’ phase. He asks what everything is even when he knows darn well what it is. I’m dreading the ‘why’ phase. But hey, isn’t it great that they are so inquisitive? I hear that’s a sign of intelligence. What no one tells us is that while our children are exhibiting signs of intellect we mommy’s are slowly going insane.

]]> Comment on Passionless by Kiirekass http://crissy.blanos.com/2009/06/09/passionless/#comment-34516 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:53:45 +0000 http://crissy.blanos.com/2009/06/09/passionless/#comment-34516 Great to see you writing again! Good luck rekindling your passion for teaching. I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up and just seem to dabble in this and that which is interesting in its own way. Just don't get stuck in a rut, life is too short! Great to see you writing again! Good luck rekindling your passion for teaching. I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up and just seem to dabble in this and that which is interesting in its own way. Just don’t get stuck in a rut, life is too short!

]]> Comment on How Romantic by Stephanie http://crissy.blanos.com/2008/10/08/how-romantic/#comment-32446 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:30:12 +0000 http://crissy.blanos.com/2008/10/08/how-romantic/#comment-32446 Aren't anniversaries with kids just wonderful? Aren’t anniversaries with kids just wonderful?

]]> Comment on Half Way There by Kiirekass http://crissy.blanos.com/2008/09/30/half-way-there/#comment-32434 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:59:07 +0000 http://crissy.blanos.com/2008/09/30/half-way-there/#comment-32434 Now all Aiden needs is a crab! My oldest was playing in the Gulf of Mexico last week when we saw a crab in the water near her. After a year of swimming lessons, using floats, she all of a sudden swam with no floats! After she calmed down, she started exclaiming, "I can swim on my own!" and she was right. After that, like magic, she was swimming completely on her own and now I am the mother of a 3 year old fish. Now all Aiden needs is a crab! My oldest was playing in the Gulf of Mexico last week when we saw a crab in the water near her. After a year of swimming lessons, using floats, she all of a sudden swam with no floats! After she calmed down, she started exclaiming, “I can swim on my own!” and she was right. After that, like magic, she was swimming completely on her own and now I am the mother of a 3 year old fish.

]]> Comment on Too Many Playdates by Audrey http://crissy.blanos.com/2008/04/26/too-many-playdates/#comment-30627 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:18:16 +0000 http://crissy.blanos.com/2008/04/26/too-many-playdates/#comment-30627 Commendable but...I used to teach and think it was sooo important that my son "learn" to socialize. But you know what honey? They learn that on their own. We used to have 3-4 playdates a week and would find the kids playing by themselves on things THEY were interested in rather than playing together. Finally I said enough and just joined a "once a week" Moms group. Not one of those highly organized ones with guest speakers and such but a very casual one through a local church - no speaking religion and no speaking politics allowed :) so it was very open to people of other religious beliefs. The pastor would set up a large play area for the kids every Thursday - crawl through tubes, ball pit, movable shelves of toys the kids could also borrow for a week. We had upper income all the way through to mothers having to rely on social services for food on their table and roof over their heads. Kids would play and chase one another while teens from the youth group watched over them and played with them. Mothers would just sit and relax and laugh over coffee at a table set aside just for them and be waited on by other youth group teens. It was nice because we could still see our children, they would be playing, and we could just "relax". If we needed to talk about parenting, we would, otherwise we could talk about what ever struck our fancy. Then a new pastor took over when kiddo was 4 and the program ended but after that, I never worried about "socializing". Kiddo made friends with neighbourhood kids and played with them if the mood struck him rather than when it struck Mommy. He is a normal, well adjusted almost 7 year old now who is socially outgoing when he feels like being socially out going. Commendable but…I used to teach and think it was sooo important that my son “learn” to socialize. But you know what honey? They learn that on their own. We used to have 3-4 playdates a week and would find the kids playing by themselves on things THEY were interested in rather than playing together. Finally I said enough and just joined a “once a week” Moms group. Not one of those highly organized ones with guest speakers and such but a very casual one through a local church - no speaking religion and no speaking politics allowed :) so it was very open to people of other religious beliefs. The pastor would set up a large play area for the kids every Thursday - crawl through tubes, ball pit, movable shelves of toys the kids could also borrow for a week. We had upper income all the way through to mothers having to rely on social services for food on their table and roof over their heads. Kids would play and chase one another while teens from the youth group watched over them and played with them. Mothers would just sit and relax and laugh over coffee at a table set aside just for them and be waited on by other youth group teens. It was nice because we could still see our children, they would be playing, and we could just “relax”. If we needed to talk about parenting, we would, otherwise we could talk about what ever struck our fancy. Then a new pastor took over when kiddo was 4 and the program ended but after that, I never worried about “socializing”. Kiddo made friends with neighbourhood kids and played with them if the mood struck him rather than when it struck Mommy. He is a normal, well adjusted almost 7 year old now who is socially outgoing when he feels like being socially out going.

]]> Comment on Moving Right Along by Stephanie http://crissy.blanos.com/2008/04/27/moving-right-along/#comment-29046 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:14:54 +0000 http://crissy.blanos.com/2008/04/27/moving-right-along/#comment-29046 Just wanted to let you know that the basement looks great. Love the wall color and the rugs. Larry liked the bookshelves too. We've finally decided on a contractor so we'll be in our own basement mess soon. Also, Aiden's room looks nice too. Can't wait to see it when the bedding is on. Just wanted to let you know that the basement looks great. Love the wall color and the rugs. Larry liked the bookshelves too. We’ve finally decided on a contractor so we’ll be in our own basement mess soon. Also, Aiden’s room looks nice too. Can’t wait to see it when the bedding is on.

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