Friends With FOP

Okay, so many urban legends surrounds the whole soda tab myth.  However, I can attest that charities do collect the soda can tabs for donations.  When we were at Philadelphia's Ronald McDonald's House, they had so many soda tabs, it was crazy!  So here we are, complete Diet Pepsi soda junkies (Fitness Together would not be happy with my admission to that)...and I started pulling our soda tabs.  Originally my plan was to donate them to the Seattle's Ronald McDonald's House.  Now I am researching how the IFOPA can benefit from them.  The downfall is the Ronald McDonald's Houses have ...

Are you on Facebook?  If so, please become a fan of "International FOP Association *IFOPA*."  Ashley Kurpiel has started the fan page.  You do NOT need to be a member of the IFOPA to join the fan page.  Several pictures have been added and the FOP community has joined in.  Ashley is the woman whose story will be shared on Discovery Health Channel's Mystery Diagnosis this winter.  Yep, she's the one who turned me on to Facebook.  We got in contact with each other after the producers of Mystery Diagnosis introduced us.  During my first conversation with Ashley, she had ...

I, for one, have truly enjoyed a "normal" week again.  We all went through our own "re-entry" phase when we got back from our trip.  With all the illness gone, Alan returning to work, the kids back to school, and I have the daycare up and running again....we all feel renewed.  Larkin has had a little trouble reacclimating to school but that's because he was gone for two weeks.  He's feeling the pressure of missing so much school work.  Erin's preschool is doing a fundraiser where we can purchase greeting cards with the student's artwork.  Erin made a snowman for ...