Brooke has developed an obsession with bobble head dolls.  I ordered her a Pujols bobblehead online and it's backordered so it has been a daily, obsessive conversation about where her bobblehead is.  I hit Walgreens on my way home from the airport tonight and lucked out on finding a dog bobblehead to bring in as my peace offering after being gone for 4 days.  Side note - the Mississippi is a river...not a lake - right?  Just checking because there were many lake like qualitites to the riverbed from the air as we flew over downtown Memphis.  And it's supposed to rain again tomorrow.

 

Anyway, back to the bobbleheads - I bought one for Andrew too because even though he does not share his sister's obsession with bobblehead dolls, I know WAY better than to get them two different gifts.  Brooke made a bobblehead home out of a shoe box (which I have plenty) and declared that 'Leonardo' has to stay in there so he's fresh when he comes out.  Andrew named his Raphael.  They both made me cards and Andrew's showed a FedEx plane.  I did the whole 'tell me about your picture' and he said that was the plane he saw and he knew I was on it.  Makes sense when that is 80% of the flights in and out of 'America's Distribution Capital' but we did have a quick conversation to cover cargo planes v. people planes.

 

Remedial HR taught many lessons that apply to managing and parenting.  Namely - coach the behavior, not the attitude (I noticed you did this), have them propose the solutions on how to fix things and follow up.  So many parallels between the two...many times you have to be mature enough for everyone you deal with, they will try to get away with as much as they can and it truly can be rewarding when it is done right.  HR would be so proud of the lessons I absorbed!