Horn Lake City Officials Want Residents to Pull Up Their Pants!

Baggy Pants- Horn Lake, MS

The Commercial Appeal (Jackson, MS) reports that the city's mayor and board of alderman on Tuesday agreed to begin working with the city attorney and other officials to draw up a new ordinace that would ban city residents for wearing sagging, revealing, low slung pants. Officials say they have noticed an increase in male residents wearing excessively baggy britches that expose their underwear- a fashion faux pas that needs to come to an end.

What do ya'll think about that?

Ms. Lydia

The "Dumbing Down" of Graduation Ceremonies

It's time for the annual graduations to begin. My two daughters recently attended their high school's graduation to celebrate with some of their friends who were marching. Talk about celebrating, they quickly reminded me from hearing their stories afterwards, how incredibly rowdy and crazy these ceremonies have become. It was three years ago that our family attended my son's high school graduation and I remember how shocked I was! We were all dressed to the nines. I wore a nice dress, heals and hose. My husband wore a coat and tie and the girls wore lovely dresses. A lot of people we saw at the ceremony were dressed that way too. However, I was taken aback by some of the outfits that were worn by attendees. I couldn't believe that there were people at the ceremony who wore jeans and t-shirts, even cut off shorts and flip flops. Really? I even saw parents of some of the graduates in jeans and shirts, dressed extremely casual. You know, I and many others believe that high school and college graduations are very special. Relatives and friends gather to see their loved ones celebrate an important accomplishment. And every person marching is wearing a lovely formal cap and gown. Some people have beautiful decorations on their gowns to celebrate a great deal of hard work and honors. Why can't people take the time to respect and to show honor to those that have worked so hard? It's a ceremony! DRESS UP! Why "dumb down" something that is supposed to honor scholastic intelligence?!

All of the definitions I've read for the word ceremony include the word -FORMAL!
Ceremony:
1. The FORMAL activities conducted on some solemn or important public or state occasion.
2. A FORMAL religious or sacred observance: A solemn rite
3. Any FORMAL act or observance
4. A gesture or act of politeness or civility

Need I say more?

And what's with all the screaming and rowdiness as graduates receive their diplomas? I am all for celebrating wonderful accomplishments but blowing really loud horns and screaming at the top of your lungs is over the top- ESPECIALLY when you have been asked not to behave like that by the school administrators who are running the ceremony! Clapping should be appropriate behavior and would even make the ceremony go faster without interruptions from the crowd.

I am not being a snob here! Parents, please set the example for your children and teach them appropriate behavior and dress for graduation ceremonies. And please, don't say that just because everyone else is dressing down and acting out, that it must be ok!

Here's to restoring formality and civility in our society today!!

Our Wife Swap Episode was on again today!

Hello everyone,
Our Wife Swap Episode was on again today! I can't believe how many times they have shown the episode and I bet everyone is pretty tired of seeing it over and over again! I am honored, though, that ABC and the Lifetime Channel has kept airing it for all these years.

It has almost been 5 years since a casting producer contacted me (after finding my website) to encourage me to apply for the show. After my family went through all the interviews and screening (criminal and drugs- ha!!) process to be on Wife Swap, it nearly took our whole summer to complete. We were worn out!!!

I wanted to say that I am so happy to have met and lived with the Haggerty's. Were they different from The Allison's? Yes. But they are truly a precious family and we have continued to know them through Face Book and telephone calls. As I said in the tv show- "There's a lot of love in that family." I know that Maureen dearly loves my children and she knows that I dearly love hers. I also know that we will ALWAYS be friends .. for the rest of our lives. Even though we are separated by many miles, one day, Tim and I plan on visiting Boston to see them, to reminisce, and to finally see the historic parts of Boston that I never got to go see while I was up there filming the show- LOL!

Our families are also very fond and continue to be friends with some of the crew members that worked and filmed the show. Me and big Danny and the boys are closest to the crew members that were up in Boston while my kids, Tim and Maureen were close to some of the crew in Starkville. It was crazy!!!

Anyway, here are some pictures I thought I would share from my experience from being on the Wife Swap TV show. As you can tell, the crew members were pretty crazy and they made my experience wonderful!

All the Best,
Ms. Lydia

I have a NEW website!!!!

Please visit my new website and let me know what you think!!! http://www.classykidsacademy.com/ or http://www.marketplacemanners.com/.
I also invite you to be a fan on FB!

I will be posting more soon!

Best,
Lydia