It’s not all About Politics

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I’ve had two people in the last two days reference this blog with these particular comments: “When are you going to have some pictures of Cooper?” & “This is Jay’s blog, its mainly about politics.” So, Kim & Gordon, here’s a little update on the family & something other than politics.

Our businesses had the Small Business Expo yesterday and I think it was the best in 3 years (at least for our booth). Holly had an interesting strategy this year, and since she is the smartest person I know, we went with it. She had noticed a trend that businesses are not handing out as much freebies as in previous years so we decided to accelerate this trend and not give any novelties away this year. Plus, it really helped with the budget. Instead, we created a good number of displays for the practice & spa and handed out a ton of info. The result: I sent out 18 new patient packets this morning. Instead of having the “standing at the door”, bloodthirsty crowds come and enact their “Scorched Earth” policy towards the Expo’s Dollar Store treasures, we only had truly interested people come up and talk to us. I really must commend Holly on her amazing gamble. Hopefully that will carry over to next week when we go on our cruise (we’ll get to that…). But as a result, we might get as many new patients as we get in a month for one day’s work. We really tried to promote the pediatrics portion of our practice as well as their children’s health fair scheduled for May 29th from 5-7pm at our office (Shameless promotion continues….). It worked well and they had a lot of interest. Probably helped out by the free hand massages that the spa was handing out next door. Thats about enough about the expo, but if you’re in the Sanford area, check out WBFT TV-46 each night this week for footage from the event (as well as interviews with Angie Western from our Peds department & Holly for the spa!).

So, Cooper started visiting his new class this week. He’s already 3 months away from being 2 years old, but there has been a delay in getting him into the 18 month olds class (the logjam occurs when the 2 yr old class members don’t catch on the potty quick enough). So Monday & Tuesday he spent a couple of hours there, yesterday he had lunch with them, and today he is napping with them… or so THEY think. tomorrow is the big day, please add an extra prayer for Coop, he’s spending his first full day in his new class. And then he shows up in his new class… without his parents.

Yep, thats right, The Riley’s are going on VACAY! Holly & I are leaving Saturday for Charleston, see some the many Sanfordians living there, and then catch a boat to Bermuda. We’ll be gone for the week and Coop is staying with Papa & Cece. We have no doubt that will be an easy transition, but the changing classes might be a little difficult. So, if you see Coop around town, at church, or at teh office, tell him you love him. Most likely he’ll look at you and say, “I La La”. Very endearing.

On a sad note, last week I was asked to join our Shepherd program at church.  Its a program where an officer of the church adopts members of our congregation (“sheep”) to stay in contact with them and take a special interest in them.  Holly compares it to a year long “Secret Santa”… without the secret part, I guess.  Well I haven’t gotten my list yet, but I found out this morning that one of sheep passed away this week.  Mr. Dull had been sick for awhile and will be dearly missed.  I wish I had better circumstances to call his wife and family to introduce myself, but I bet there is no better time to have extra company around.  Please pray for the Dull family has they deal with their loss.

So, thats about all thats going on. We’ll have plenty of pictures & stories when we get back.

Also:  While we are gone, please check out Tuesday night’s “Live @ 9″ on TV-46 with Dwayne-Wayne & Woody Seymore as our Children’s Health & Fun Fair will be highlighted the first half-hour.  If you miss it, I’ll make plenty of DVD copies for spread around.

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