A hero is someone who has, sometimes against all odds, sometimes easily, become great. Some people consider a rich man to be a hero, because he has a lot of money. This could be true but not because of material. A hero must have accomplished something great, such as saving a life, or like Rosa Parks maybe you just kept your seat.

There is a hero in every facet of life, because a hero in roof work might only be a fast shingler; but he is still great in that way. Then there are the heroes in the limelight, such as Martin Luther King, and Abraham Lincoln.

Fame is not to be confused with heroism. You may be famous for acting in a good movie, but you haven’t become a hero. You can be a hero from the smallest ice fishing village in Canada.

There are different types of heroes, such as Teddy Roosevelt, who simply inspired many, or a firefighter, who has save hundreds of people’s lives. Maybe you gather money for charity, or save stray dogs.

There are many words for hero, but I think they mean the same thing. A hero is a great person, regardless of how or why.

-Christopher

© 2009 oldwomanintheshoe.com

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The cool owl

We go exploring a lot and take pictures of all the cool things we find.

This day was certainly not lacking anything cool.  After having breakfast out, feeding the ducks and geese at the park  we were driving down a back road and saw this guy standing in the middle of the road.  He was so beautiful and did not appear to be hurt or scared of us for that matter. When Scott went to try to pick him  he rotated his head all the way to his back following Scott’s progress.  That could intimidate anyone.

So with the owl distracted, I got a thick, quilted baby blanket from the far and put it over the owl and moved him to the side of the road after two attempts.  I did not want to hold him to tightly in case something was injured.

He must not have been too badly hurt because after we got him to the side of the road he flew away.

I think getting to be so close to him made everyone’s day.

Canadian Goose

Drew at hunter Park Feeding the Geese

Drew Feeding the Geese

Ana Feeding the Geese

Feeding the Geese

Chris and Drew

Drew Feeding the Geese

Having fun feeding the Geese!

Canadain Goose

He Has His bread Ready

Hell Raisers

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12/20/2008

I was disgusted with the Lights of Life this year and will not be returning unless I am assured of a change.  I have been going there every year since I moved to Georgia and discovered it. I would say twelve years now. 

I always knew the day would come when they charged for it because every year it seemed to expand a little bit and the electric bill had to be outrageous. I was and am all about them charging for it to recoup their prices and perhaps to make a little more money to improve it even more for the nest year.  The Lights of life had become a holiday tradition for our flimsy and the five bucks is hardly too much to ask.

There are two problems though.  One minor that I would hope would change and return next year the other major and nothing less than an  apology and a change of ways would get me to go back.

The first and smallest being that the quality of the lights took a major plummet not only is the route not clearly marked and hard to negotiate but there seem to be more light displays not working and large areas with no lights at all.  This certainly needs to be fixed but the unforgivable problem is Santa.

I have four children and had one of my son’s friends with us as well.  When we parked at the little petting zoo, puppet display, concessions and Santa area my two year old immediately darted to Santa and wanted to sit on his lap.  She was so excited and even at two knew exactly what to do and got in line to sit on his lap.  Imagine how upset she was when I was informed she could not sit on Santa’s lap unless I bought a picture.  What a horrible money grubbing thing to do to a child.

In my life time I have never encountered such a thing.  I have been taking kids to see Santa for twenty five years(my younger sister) I do not care where he was an amusement park, the mall, a church, department store, school, church, celebrations at the square, Wal-Mart the grocery store, nowhere but THE Lights of Life have I ever known, seen or experienced a child being refused Santa.

Refused SAnta

It is one thing to charge admission, that is expected but to refuse a child Santa for the love of money?  How pathetic can you be?

I will not be returning to the lights of life and will do what ever I can to get my voice heard so others know what money grubbing scrooges the people who run the lights of life are.

I am sure I will get some excuse about how the dolts who run the Santa stand are independent of Life College or some such nonsense but before you do be rest assured that they are selling their pictures and refusing children the opportunity to sit on Santa’s lap as representatives of Life College by being part of the display.  So every child will remember being refused to sit on Santa’s lap at Life College.

Mother of the Child who was refused Santa,

Jennifer

 theoldwomanintheshoe@toothfairy.com

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Andrew made A/B honor roll and won the first place medal at the Greco Roman freestyle competition.

Nicholas Made A/B honor Roll and won second place in the Greco Roman/Freestyle completion. His honors ceremony is tomorrow so I may have even more to report from both his drama performance and chorus. He also participated in science Olympiad and is in Venture, his schools gifted program.

Christopher also is on A-B Honor roll and just won, about fifteen minutes ago, his grade level Spelling B. First place! He will be going to the next stage of competition in Marietta soon.

Nicholas and Andrew will be in a Greco Roman/ freestyle Tournament on May 31^st at Henry county High School. I plan to attend this one my boys’ family on the southern side of Georgia can easily attend.

You can click here for more information on that tourney and know that it is possible due to car troubles we may still be unable to attend. I will let any one who is interested in attending know if we should have to cancel.

I just wanted to add that their team’s site, www.powderceg.com

was designed by me!  I am pretty proud of it!

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Special thanks To La Lond Photography for these wonderful  Photos!

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