Keeping the tab “on”
This is the syntax for styling a background tab in Wordpress dropdown menus. This will keep the top tab “on” for all sub-pages.
.menu ul li a.current_parent
{
color: #2e4a81;
background-color: #2e4a81;
background-image:url(./images/tabbg.jpg);
background-position: top right;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
The Cub Scout Promise
My son, Tyler, is a new cub scout and I just attended my first-ever cub scout meeting with him. He’s been to a few meetings with his Dad, but I’ve tried to stay out of all that “boy stuff”. Last night my husband had to attend an extremely important meeting (fishing club), so I had to pitch in and be the parent-partner at his Cub Scout meeting. This was an important one because the boys got to practice driving a rickety wooden cart down a steep hill.
Having your mom at a cub scout meeting is definitely a liablility from my son’s perspective. I kept doing embarrasing things like making him wear a coat, adjusting his helmet, cheering too loudly when he used the brake to slow down, and hugging him when I realized he survived the 50 yard plummet. It was also bad from my perspective because every vessel of mom-blood in my veins was screaming “noooooooo!” when the scout leader shoved the go-cart carrying my precious child down the hill and let go.
Thankfully the cub scouts all survived with their limbs intact, and we went inside for cookies & business. Before the close of the meeting, the Scout Leader tested each of the bouncing, wriggling, cookie & juice-filled boys on the Cub Scout Promise, which they are supposed commit to memory and recite on command. I’m sure I’ve heard the promise before, maybe 35 years ago when my brother was a cub scout, but I’ve never heard my son or husband mention it, and they certainly haven’t been practicing. With prompting, Ty could start out with “I, Tyler”…” an it would fade to an untelligible mumble from there.
Aha – something I could help with that doesn’t involve door-to-door sales or potential broken bones! We practiced the promise in the car all the way home. It goes like this:
“I, Tyler, promise to do my best
to do my duty
to God and my Country
to help other people
and obey the law of the pack.”
Maybe Mom’s should have their own promise. Something like:
“I, Tyler’s Mom Jen, promise to do my best
to let my son be brave and daring,
to help without embarassing him,
and to not eat all the cookies of the pack.”
Followup to Redirect on Contact Form 7
There have been a couple of updates to the Contact Form 7 plugin for wordpress since my original post: Adding a redirect to Contact Form 7.
Important! Don’t forget to go back and re-add that redirect back in if you upgrade your plugin. I hate doing things twice, so I’m recommending to the Contact Form 7 developers that they add this option to the admin tool.
I should order a photo book
I’ve been invited to a scrapbooking club with my best friend’s mom. She goes every week and makes beautiful memory books for her kids & grandkids. I think this is something that I’d actually enjoy. Sure, its a Sunday afternoon with a bunch of old ladies, but hey – is it worse than working on the computer on a Sunday afternoon (like I’m doing right now)? I don’t think so!
I have discs & discs full of pictures, tons of memorabilia of all kinds. I’m a bit of a packrat, and hang on to all kinds of weird stuff in shoe boxes and desk drawers. I also need a push to work on something like a scrapbook. I’m too busy & distracted to work on it at home, plus, I would have way too much help from my kids to actually accomplish anything.
So, on Friday I ran into my Volunteer Life Coach and she asked what I was doing this weekend. Typically I wouldn’t tell her much because she always suggests ways that I can improve my experience. However, this time, I thought “Aha! I’m doing something fun and creative this weekend. She won’t be able to “should” me this time! Perhaps she’d even say, she even say somthing like “Gee, that sounds like fun. Have a good time.”
Of course, my VLC always has something surprising to offer. I braced myself, ready to hear what kind of snack to bring to scrapbooking, what kind of book I should make, what materials would be needed and where to by them. And she said…
“Oh, I wouldn’t do that. You should just upload your pictures to kodak and order a photobook.”
(I can’t wait for scrapbooking now! I’ll have to find out if cocktails are allowed.)
I should chaperone the 1st grade field trip
VLC (volunteer life coach) – “Are you going on the field trip next week?
Jen – “No, I really don’t have time.”
VLC – “Really? You should try to clear your schedule because you really should go on the field trip.”
Jen – “Oh look, there’s a squirrel.” Points to a nearby tree and then runs away when VLC turns her head.