A Fun Survey

[Henry Hawk]

1) How old do you wish you were?
20 was a good year for me, but, I will just stay with my current age, would not want anything to change...

2) Where were you when 9/11 happened?
At work....and did not get too much done that day...

3) What do you do when vending machines steal your money?
My torrets syndrome usually kicks in about that time...

4) Do you consider yourself kind?
Until my torrets syndrom kicks in...

5) If you would get a tattoo, what part of your body would you get it on?
On the bottom of my big toe on my left foot...

7) If you could be fluent in any other language, what would it be?
ebonics...

Do you know your neighbors?
Some of them...

9) What do you consider a vacation?
Anytime, my family can get away together, away from home..

10) Do you follow your horoscope?
NEVER...

11) Would you move for the person you loved?
Sure...

12) Are you touchy feely?
With my family...

13) Do you believe that opposites attract?
Like male and females....yep..

14) Dream job?
Sports Broadcaster...

15) Favorite channel?
Fox..TVLand..ESPN...

16) Where would you love to live?
Montana...on a ranch...

17) Friend you wish lived in your town?
...

18) Showers or Baths?
Showers

19) Do you paint your nails?
No, I put a little 3 in 1 oil on them to keep them from rusting...

22) Do you trust people easily?
Always..

23) What are your phobias?
Freakin Spiders...the big ole hairy, quick movin sobs...

24) Do you want kids?
Got five..and probably done....

25) Do you keep a handwritten journal?
not that organized..

26) Where would you rather be right now?
At home with my family...maybe at Disney World..

28) Who makes you feel guilty?
My kids...when they want me to play with them and I have to work...

29) Heavy or light sleep?
light..

30) Are you paranoid?
Why you ask?
 
31) Are you impatient?
YESSSSS! (how many more questions?

32) Who can you relate to?
My kids

33) How do you feel about interracial couples?
Whatever float your boat...

34) Have you been burned by love?
Nope married the first woman I ever loved...23 years ago...

35) Whats been your fav. job?
Doing it now...

36) WHATS YOUR RINGTONE ON YOUR PHONE?
riiiiinnnnngggggg....

37) WHAT WERE YOU D0ING AT MIDNIGHT LAST NIGHT?
Waiting for my wife to get home from work..

39) WHOS BED DID YOU SLEEP IN LAST NIGHT?
My own

40) WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?
Orange

41) MOST RECENT MOVIE THAT YOU WATCHED?
Cars...

43) WHAT'S THE COLOR OF YOUR BEDSHEETS?
Yellow and White...

46) What's your favorite town/city?
Banff, Canada...

[Sunny]

You are so funny, CWM...and it's wonderful to hear about happy marriages! 23 years with your first love, fantastic!

[Henry Hawk]

You are so funny, CWM...and it's wonderful to hear about happy marriages! 23 years with your first love, fantastic!

Thanks Sunny....I've been blessed, a woman, I'm still in love with and five awsome kids....

How long you been married?

[Sunny]

Not very long. Met my husband 7 years ago...we've been married for 4. But, it's pretty fantastic.

5 children...bet that keeps you 2 hopping! What ages, if I may ask??

[Henry Hawk]

Not very long. Met my husband 7 years ago...we've been married for 4. But, it's pretty fantastic.

5 children...bet that keeps you 2 hopping! What ages, if I may ask??

I got a son, 19, who is Ft. Benning Ga...right now in infantry training, he gets out in another month and will start at Ball State University in the ROTC program..
I got a son, 16, who is an excellent musician..plays the drums in the band, but seem like he can play anything he gets his hands on..a really good kid.
I got a daughter, 12, who is as pretty as her mom, and is into acting and swimming.
and I got twins, 6 years old...a boy and a girl...and they are a hoot...the just started kindergarten a month ago...and that is the best thing in thier world...

[Sunny]

Nice age range!

So, your little ones were 6 when they started kindergarten? We have to decide if we will hold our oldest back next year...she'll only be 4 when school starts & won't turn 5 until a month later. *shrug*

[Henry Hawk]

Nice age range!

So, your little ones were 6 when they started kindergarten? We have to decide if we will hold our oldest back next year...she'll only be 4 when school starts & won't turn 5 until a month later. *shrug*

Don't be in too big of a hurry to get them in school....they grow up too dang fast the way it is....let them be little for as long as you can....at least that is my advise..

[Sunny]

I will certainly heed your advice, HH -- I just don't want my child to be the oldest in her class...but, I also want her to be developmentally ready for school.

[SoccerMom]

My son's birthday is September 5th, so he's the oldest in his class...he's 8 and in the 2nd grade. It was a tough decision whether to hold him back or not, because I think he was really ready, but in the end, we decided to wait another year and I'm so glad we did! He started kindergarten with 2 yrs of preschool under his belt and adjusted really easily. He's now in the gifted program at school and I'm one proud mama!! 

[Gryphon]

SoccerMom...is your son in Raleigh County schools? (Im relying on an increasingly bad memory, but I think you said you were from Beckley!)
How do they do gifted there now? Is it still a once a week thing...or is it all the time?

[SoccerMom]

He is, Gryphon...and that memory of yours isn't so bad, I work in Beckley, but actually live in Daniels. 
He attends Daniels Elementary, which is a really great school. He has his gifted class every Thursday...so yep, just once a week. He also has speech class twice a week, so needless to say, our evenings are homework packed! 

[Gryphon]

I was in that program when I was young...it was awesome and some of my best school memories are of the classes I took there. (I remember feeling like the teachers at gifted treated me much more like a "grown up".)  If its anything like it used to be, it will be a real confidence builder for him.

I didnt attend Daniels, but one of the years I was in the program, thats where the gifted center was. (it was moved every year it seemed...the old Hollywood school, Bradley, then Daniels)

[SoccerMom]

So they had a gifted center then? I guess I'm not familiar with that term...I just assumed every school had a gifted teacher that taught students at that school. His teacher last yr alternated between Daniels and Stanaford Elementary, but his current teacher seems to be at Daniels full time.

He definitely enjoys it, but he's one of those kids who doesn't want to be "different", so I worried that pulling him out of his regular class 3 times a week, for gifted and for speech, would be a bit much. So far it's working out well, so we'll see.....

[Gryphon]

yeah, they would bus all the kids in from various schools...one day a week. (You remind me...it was at Stanaford one year too)
If they have a teacher and a class at every school now, thats great. Though I will say that the program allowed me to meet kids from other schools that I wouldnt otherwise have met.
Does he have to make up the work from "regular" classes when he is gone to gifted?

[Sunny]

Our school system called it "Project Enhanced" rather than gifted...and we went to a university once a week.