My Parent Trap: 2009

Thursday, October 08, 2009

Food Drive update: Sales by 5 is AWESOME

My group at school has already brought in 190lbs of food towards the food drive. Tonight, my sister's soccer, the Lady Cyclones committed to bringing 7lbs each. There are 12 members = 84 lbs.
We will collect on Sunday after the soccer game and during the next two practices.

My mom gave me some great news today after school. Her friends, who she met through twitter, are going to allow their office space as a donation location. The wonderful place is Sales by 5. She is hoping tomorrow we can pick something up tomorrow at their Pity Party. At least I hope so. Anyway, the players at Sales by 5 are

Erik Darmstetter, CEO, follow him on twitter here
Nan Palmero, CIO, follow him on twitter here and his wife Ashley, a wedding photographer here (see Mom's blog post on Ashley) and their dog Clunkers Palmero. (I know, lots of twitter)
Kya - the brand evangelist
Bobby Freeman

These folks are on twitter, so be sure to follow them. I hope to meet them tomorrow at the pity party to pick up the first round of food. I know it is last minute, but please consider attending the pity party and giving up some non perishable food.

The Sales by 5 office is located at 85 N.E. Loop 410, Suite 218, San Antonio, TX 78216

Thank you Erik!

Alex
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Help me on my food drive

Hi, My name is Alex, the oldest child of Jennifer and Jaz. As my community service project, I want to expand on our JROTC at John Jay High School. We are required to raise 7 lbs of food. I am hoping through social media (my mother is a social media junkie) I can raise so much more.

I am asking all you out there to each donate 7lbs of food. My parents have agreed to drive me around and pick them up and we are working on a couple of donation stations. I have a twitter account, but haven't used it yet. Look for me soon. I will also be on my facebook page and trying to hack my mother account to get more donations. If you can help. Please contact us through twitter. Here is my twitter. or my mom's twitter. You can also call my mom at A Regal Affair: 210.563.6705 or email jennifer at regalaffair dot com. My deadline is the end of the month. I hope to be able to do weekly pick ups.

Thank you in advance. I will be blogging more often. Updating donation stations and recommended donation items.

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Catch up post

I've ignored the blog in the past months and now regret it. I have so many pics to post and not enough time to do it. We had a great Christmas break, January and February came and went - quick.

This morning Alex is going in for surgery on both his legs. He has what they call miserable malalignment...but they are only working on the bottom half of his legs. Lucky us. He started having knee pain towards the end of football season and then completely giving out during the tennis season. Since he has been restricted from all physical activity except straight forward running and lifting weights, he has been doing great. But one 1/2 hour of street basketball in the neighborhood and his other knee gave out.

We got second and third opinions from the best we could find... All said have the surgery and do it now. He will miss the rest of the school year and I know he is just heartbroken over it (insert :: rolling eyes here ::). He will also miss all that ridiculous TAKs testing... but he will be just fine and can do his work from home. We thought it would be easier if his siblings were gone for a half day at school. Jaz will be off from work for 6 weeks and I only have two weddings left until Fall (of course they are this weekend and next).

Spring break is next week and it is NEVER the second week of March. For once, my parents and family have spring break the third week and this year we have the second week. So all the help we planned on isn't panning out, but we can handle it. Every year for spring break we brainstorm on our adventure. We went to Florida one year and they had so much fun. Try driving 12 hours with 5 kids to the Florida panhandle. Last year we went camping, for the first time with all of them. This year, we are caretakers. Another adventure, just different. We are moving our adventure to July and heading out to West Texas to visit some land we will develop, camp in the heat, and scuba in the San Salamon Springs in Balmorhea. I'll update on his progress in a few days.