My Review of DREAM JOURNAL

Originally submitted at UncommonGoods

It's time to start living the life you've imagined. - Henry James Where do you want to go? What do you want to become? Dream with your eyes wide open and a pen in hand with this inspiring journal full of over 100 quotations about seizing your dreams and seizing the day. Take note of your f...

DREAM JOURNAL

Journal your Dreams with Dream Journal!

By Proudtobeapoppa from Los Angeles, CA on 4/11/2011

 

5out of 5

Pros: Professional Quality, Durable Construction, The perfect gift

Best Uses: Essays, Personal log

Describe Yourself: Quality Oriented

Primary use: Personal

This is great to keep by your bedside and right down your dreams or thoughts before bed or when you wake up.

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Live Eagle Cam from Decorah, Iowa Draws Internet's Attention

I was watching the ABC nightly news and I saw this. Pretty cool...

Here is a great video of some baby eaglets hatching. Amazing how they have captured this on camera.

Borders - Everything must Go!!!!

Here's a quick one that I thought I'd share. I found out yesterday, but didn't think anything of it. Many Borders book stores across the country are closing due to them filing Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and reorganization. It's a great time to go get some kids' books, videos, or music. Set a budget and stick to it!

Christmas Aftermath

I don't know about everyone else, but this Christmas came and went with some serious wrath. Our house is a mess with new gifts in every room of the house. To boot, today is my kids' 4th bday, so we have a even more gifts everywhere.

We tried to have a conversation with our toddler a few weeks ago talking about the true meaning of Christmas, but I don't think any of it really soaked in. We told him that he needed to give up some toys to donate to other children and that would make more room for the new ones. I don't think he understood what we were talking about. He didn't want to give away anything and started hiding his toys.

Oh well, I think it is important to purge during the holidays though. My wife and I got rid of some clothes and made a little room for new things. The next task (while my child is not looking) will be to take some of the old baby toys that he doesn't play with and donate them to Goodwill. He may not understand the meaning of giving yet, but we do.

Christmas Traditions

When our now three year old was born, my wife started a great Christmas tradition. Each year, we go out and my son gets to pick an ornmanet for the Christmas Tree. We put the date on the back and then let him hang it on the tree. This year, we each picked an ornament, so that was different.

The great idea my wife has about this is that when our boy is old enough to be on his own, we will give him the ornaments, so he has some to start with. My wife got this idea from her mom that started this tradition. To this day, we have little ornaments that my wife had on her tree when she was a little girl.

Share any traditions you may have!

The Social Network

If you're on Facebook then you have to see The Social Network. The movie is about Mark Zuckerberg, the creater of Facebook. It is an amazing story about a genius programmer and how he created The Facebook. Go see if if you can, and if you don't have the time, put it on your Netflix queue!

Waiting for Superman

My wife and I went to the movies last weekend and we saw Waiting for Superman. If any of you have kids or are planning on having kids, then this is a MUST see movie. The movie talks about the reality of how bad the public school system is in the country. It follows five children that range from kindergarten through eighth grade and their struggle to get into a good school in their area. It is unbelievable to hear that all of these children had to register for a lottery with terrible odds to have their children attend a good school. The public school system is broken and it needs to be fixed.

What frightens me the most is that because of the teacher's union, teachers can get tenure after a few years. After that, it is next to impossible to fire them. The stats were something like only 1 in 2500 teachers get fired. Not that all teachers need to be fired at some point or another, but like any profession, you will have great teachers and people that shouldn't be teachers.

There is so much more to learn from this movie. Go see it and come back and post!