cursive, or not cursive....

....is that a question??

So, we had friends that visited this past sunday. They are brilliant people that are erudite in the English language.

we got on the subjects of our kids, of course...then, onto the topic of how schools are phasing out cursive writings...

Da wife was really baffled and asked, "why would they do that, how would our kids learn how to read doctors' writings?"

I raised the question of, "can ANYBODY read a doctor's handwriting, anyways??"

everyone nodded their head in acquiesce...NO....

besides, it isn't good to write cursive...I mean, "F-U-C...." or "S-H-I..." are not good cursive words to learn...

our friend, Peggy, then mentioned that one of her daughters not only had problem with the cursive writings in school...but that she was also a very bad speller...

well, "P-H-U-C-K" would really be awful to a kid's self-esteem...that would make me curse already...a misspelled cursive writing essay?? Well...you know....SAT would never accept that....

when I look at it from all angles...I find it a connundrum...

first of all, no two people's cursive writings are the same...

I remember someone brought up the constitution of America in its original cursive form....well, to be honest with you, I had a hard time reading that stuff when I was in D.C. Those cursive words are really fancy and I had a hard time understanding it...

at the same time, cursive writing IS an art form....it is beautiful when written correctly....but I can't recall many people putting the time to write it correctly...

and we all know that art is a personal taste/choice of thing...I mean, have you seen some of the "FINE" arts out there that are REALLY out there???

I guess in the end, I don't care...as long as my kids can go into the right bathroom to do their business and don't turn in a paper titled: The Constipation of the United States of America

I really wouldn't care....

now, TEXTING...I have a problem with....LOL

I just can't stand: I luv u

I cannot imagine getting a greeting card from my kids:

"I luv u, d+ (+ means ADD)"

I don't want to be called a "D+" for "DAD"

know what I mean??

and I don't want to be asked, "dju 8 dner" (did you ate dinner)

to me, that would make me become cursive...

Bleh....

I cannot belive it's been so long since I've blabbed...and I am such a blabber mouth...

it's been a really odd second half of the year...

since August 30th, 30 days after my spinal surgery, I have been sick almost none stop. And it was passed around throughout my household...and then back to me again on various occassions...heckit, I can't even spell occasions right....sheesh...

having fevers are not fun...having fevers that go up and down 3 degrees in one day everyday for a week is even LESS funner...

so far, this household has had its shares of flu, swine flu, stomach flu, R2D2 Flu, Asian Flu, avian flu, Wrights Brothers Flew, and One Flu (over the Coco Puff's Nest).

Temperatures have reached more than Farenheit 451 and my Tails has seen more than two cities (I go to 3 different doctors in two different towns).

It's a good thing that my wife is loving, caring, and very strong and don't get sick too often. But even she, got sick a couple of times through it all...or threw up of it all...

When I had my stomach flu last week...I literally cried....I cried so hard that I wasn't hungry because I swallowed all my nasal drips...and then I passed it out the other end because of my stomach flu...

it is even less funny when I would be sick and the kids would be sick at the same time...because I would have no energy and da wife had used up almost all of her sick leaves and there would be me and a sick kiddo...both miserable together...

it's a sad sight...LOL....

but through it all, we made it....I still cannot comprehend how single parents do it. It is hard with two parents...and that's when everyone's healthy...

anyways, it's been almost 8 days that we all have been healthy...knock on cyberboard...let's keep it that way and keep the germs at bay....

now,where's my sanitizer??