Every time I see this bumper sticker I wonder which way they mean it.
a. I’m a follower of a Judea-Christian belief system.
b. I’m making a slur against Jews.
c. I’m making a general slur against Jews, but more importantly, I’m making a specific slur against my boss thinking he’s God and running my life.
d. none of the above. It means something else entirely that I’m missing.
Now, I suspect they want a., but it really comes out as c. to me.
Is it me, or does it hit other people the same way?
Original post by Meg
That’s Us. Aren’t we cute?
You can sorta see Zibby’s animal ears drawn on her forehead. Typical.
We’ve been super busy hanging out at the park and the beach and playing with friends and going thrifting.
We’ve been going to Farmer’s Markets and out for hamburgers and chillin’ with Papa after work.
Summer is good.
Life is good.
Original post by happychildhood
If you go to www.caitlinandnataliemusic.blogspot.com and www.reviewsbynatalie.blogspot.com you can see that we put up some music videos on the side! Tell me how you like them!
Natalie
Original post by natalie
Remember those kids in high school who were always tripping on drugs? We called them stoners in our high school, or heads, or druggies, take your pick.
Well, look at my poor little puppy dog. Isn’t he funny?
I had to groom him today. I wish I’d never started doing this. I started so that I could save the $40 grooming fee each month. And now Murphy won’t let anybody else touch him. He’s fifteen years old, so I guess I’ll have to see this chore through to the end. I hate to traumatize the little guy.
He hates haircuts. And it takes me an unbelievably long time, three hours all together. I have to cut away the bushiness. Then I shampoo him. Then he gets it all blow-dried out straight. Then I use the clippers to get the rest of the hair cut closer. There are much fewer snags on my clipper […]
Original post by Robin
Here’s a pic of Kevin and the kids on a bike trip last summer.
Original post by carrie
Well we have an offical desion this year for school. We are still homeschooling I will never give that up. But with Trenton now in 8th grade and being the football player he is we had to do some major praying and deciding what was best for our family. We had a football team pop up in our face in Manhattan which is an hour and a half away 1 way and with practice being 3 times a week and then games thats a lot of driving. Now that Glen is working nights Thursday, Fri, Sat and Sundays I am like a single Mom just not…. With the Gas prices the trip to Manhattan was not feezible. So we began looking at other options. My best friend has also desided to bring her kids home to get them out of the Public School System due to some complications they were […]
Original post by angeleyes
Today finally feels like a real summer day to me. Not because of the heat (we’ve had lots of that) or the sun (we’ve had our fair share of that too) but from some indescribable quality. Maybe it’s because this is the first full week the public schools are out and so all the places - the library, the parks, the stores and restaurants - have switched into it’s-summer-cater-to-the-kids mode. Or because we spent the late morning with friends who we don’t see often enough during the year but try to catch up with in the summer. Whatever the reason, it feels like full-blown summer today.
Before we got into the van, we noticed that one small area (two square feet?) of dirt and plants near our steps was teeming with these neat little red bugs. I haven’t looked them up yet - do you know […]
Original post by piseco
Hi all Im new to the site but not new to blogging by any means… I am 36 married to a wonderful man for 14 years. We have 6 wonderful inteligent children. 3 boys Trenton is 13, Jonathan is 9 and Mikkel is 7 months, and 3 girls Christian is 9 almost 10, Makayla is 7 and Juliana is 5. We are very busy in our household. We are a homeschooling family. We have 1 dog 1 cat and 2 ferrets. We are very active in 4-H in which I am the Organizational leader for our group. Hopefully this blog you will eventually learn about me and my family through homeschooling…
Original post by angeleyes
Obviously, not blogging, heh. We’ve had some serious computer issues in the last few weeks. Our Mac has been out of commission for a couple of weeks now, and after downloading all of our files and pictures onto cd-roms while having it in safe mode (the only way it would even work- I am SO thankful to have been able to save my photos!!), and then a few nights of fruitless frustration as Chris tried to diagnose and fix it on his own via Mac-help forums- mr.mac is now in the shop. We’ve yet to hear back what’s wrong with it though, and hoping it’s not too much $$ to fix.
Meanwhile we’ve been dependent upon Chris’s ancient lap-top with it’s finicky wireless internet connection (which all last week wouldn’t even connect- at all!?) for any online access. It’s s-l-o-w too and thus, until now, I’ve not even attempted to get online for quite awhile. We’ve been so busy around here […]
Original post by Beth
You have probably noticed how much I love the Twilight series of vampire novels by Stephenie Meyer. They each scored a solid 4 stars out of 5. They are totally engrossing and addictive, and I can’t wait for the fourth and final book to be released on August 2nd. That said, none of them had that indefiinable quality that earns a book 5 stars in my mind. The Host, Meyer’s first foray into the world of adult novels, has that quality, and has it in spades.
Ms. Meyer calls The Host science-fiction for people who don’t like science fiction. Well, I love sci-fi, and I adored this book. But I know exactly what she means, because I am going to pass this book on to my mom, who doesn’t like sci-fi - and I know she will love it.
The Host is the story of Wanderer, a soul who has lived on […]
Original post by carrie
When the email came through it seemed like a nifty idea and I thought I had just the place to put it.
What is it?
A keyless programmable lock. Something that could be mounted on a door for everyone’s convenience.
I wanted to put it on my garage…Well, that’s what we call it, but it’s not for parking the car in. You see it’s detached from the house and 30ish feet behind it, but with no driveway leading up to it. We use the building for storing stuff, primarily the pool stuff. And we keep it locked up.
The building has 2 doors. A typical garage door (hence why we call it our gararge) and a sidedoor. And with it locked up, it’s a pain when someone needs to run out there and get something.
- Remember the key…Find the key chain…Find the correct key on the […]
Original post by Meg
Noah has started and stopped many books this month, but none has kept his attention enough for him to finish.
Original post by carrie
Mole and Shrew Step Out by Jackie French Koller
Giant Pop-Out Vehicles
Original post by carrie
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman
Ghosthunters and the Totally Moldy Baroness by Cornelia Funke
Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) by Stephenie Meyer
Original post by carrie
Eric Liddell: Something Greater Than Gold by Geoff and Janet Benge
Magyk (Septimus Heap, Book 1) by Angie Sage
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
Crispin: Cross of Iron by Avi
Poetry Speaks to Children
Original post by carrie
Twister on Tuesday by Mary Pope Osborne
In the Whale (Andrew Lost #6) by J.C. Greenburg
Season of the Sandstorms by Mary Pope Osborne
Original post by carrie
Impossible Pie
2 T butter 4 eggs
1 c milk ½ c flour
1 t Baking Powder ½ tsp salt
1 c cheese 1/2-1 onion
Blend ingredients, then add any of the following :
parsley - chives - garlic - tomato - bacon - corn - tuna
Pour into a lightly greased square baker or small pie plate (or 2).
Bake at 190 deg celsius for 35 - 45 mins (or 15-20 mins at 200+ deg C)
optional - When cooked spread cheese over top of pie. Quick grill to crisp cheese
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I’ve done this “Impossible Pie” for years - well-received by young and old !!
Another recipe I’ve done only once …
Silver Beet Quiche (L. Smith)
4 Eggs 2 Onions
1.5 c Milk 4 rashers Bacon
1 cup Flour 1 tbsp Olive Oil
1 + tsp Baking Powder 3 Silverbeet leaves (similar to chard or spinach)
salt and pepper, chives and parsley to taste
Combine all ingredients together in kitchen whiz.
Bake at 190°C for 45 minutes. Use a 24 cm […]
Original post by banquet
A few days ago I posted that I wanted to do some of the items from an old list of 10 ways to make the day magical. One of the items was:
Have the kids decorate the bottoms of each other’s feet with washable markers (or do it with your little ones). This can be delightfully tickly. When they’re all done, take a picture if you like and then assign them the task of running around in puddles till they’re clean. To extend the fun, mist a large piece of white paper with water and let them stomp on it and leave foot stamps of their designs.
The kids and I all headed into the backyard and decorated like mad.
It was quite a lot of fun!
It took some experimentation to find which brands of markers bled best and what method created the best stamps. By the end we had a whole printing […]
Original post by Alicia
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction by David Quammen
When I was a kid, I had a book called Life that was some kind of text on biology. I read it a lot, but I can’t remember much of it. I was really too young for it. What drew me in, though, were these amazing pictures of the Galapagos, and the strange animal life there. Those photographs fascinated me so much, that I just had to know about those animals. Somehow my learning never connected that fascination to a deep understanding of Darwin’s voyage or the Theory of Evolution as he put it forward, but I did retain the memory of those photographs into my adult life.
There are no gorgeous pictures in Song of the Dodo, by Quammen does the equivalent with words. He takes many trips during the writing of this book, to see […]
Original post by learningumbrella
Well we just got back from the Dr’s.. mostly ok news..they are worried about the upper lip where his teeth went thru, mostly worried about possible infection so we need to be vigilant with that.. also turns out his finger IS broke..lovely..so glad the hospital caught that when we were there and so glad they never bothered to call and tell us @@…so he’s all splinted up and such. next stop is the concussion clinic!
Original post by justakrazymom
The 15th of April, 1790 Outside of Paris!
Papa has found an alley that we can use for escape! We snuck down it last night. We are now hiding in a little caverne that we found until night. Maman says she is scared. She does the rosary about ten times every day! Papa does not know where we will go next. Mon Dieu I am afraid. What have we done to deserve this? What did Marie do to deserve this? Or Louis? God, help me! I am off to do my rosary now.
Original post by Tigger
We realized the other day that our kids were each born in a different season. Ani was born in the winter, Cameron came in the fall, Fritz arrived in the summer, and Adrian just barely made it in the spring. The day after he was born it became summer.
Original post by CamianAcademy
Today’s writing assignment is to choose a new religion for yourself. It has to be something different than what you are now, or have been in the past.
It kind of makes me think about a sci-fi series by Lydia Morehouse. The first book is called Archangel Protocol, and without getting to much into it, here’s the starting premise:
Science, which had brought an ugly end to the fighting by producing and detonating the Medusa bombs, and the secular humanism that spawned it, had fallen so far out of favor that it was now officially a crime not to be at least nominally part of an organized religion….
People had suggested I simply convert to another religion and have done with it…
The book then follows this excommunicated ex-cop as she saves the world and lives happily ever after fixing up the theocracy that the world had become - not quite.
So where to […]
Original post by Meg
I did finally put some thought into next year. We’ve kind of swung back again to the more relaxed version of our eclectic homeschooling, though Aubrey does have some pretty “schooly” stuff going on.
For 10th grade, Aubrey is taking 3 courses (Chemistry, Marine Science and Web Design) through our state virtual school program. In addition, we’re going to talk to the local community college in a week or so and hopefully she will take a course with them, probably on computerized graphic design. The class she is looking at meets all day Friday. Other than that, I’ll continue morphing the things she does in her free time into things that look “creditable” on a hs transcript.
Jordan and Alex are continuing in their respective math programs. I’m going to continue doing the Evan-Moor daily grammar because it is a nice, short review of grammar and we are going to continue with […]
Original post by laraszoo
99 degrees yesterday. 99 degrees today. Which made it a perfect weekend to spend one afternoon at the lake, and the other in an air-conditioned theater.
We headed up to the lake yesterday, bringing lunch and a van-load of floaties. Another family from our church was there, too, so Natalie was able to swim with a good friend, and we were able to get to know her parents a little better.
I’ve been having a hard time getting involved at our new church. Kevin’s not even attending much. I’ve posted before about our history with churches, and I don’t want to get into all of that again. I just wish we could find a church where politics and staying in a denominational bubble weren’t the norm.
Anyway, it was nice to get to know another couple from church. We’ve met some really nice people, and the children’s ministry has welcomed […]
Original post by carrie
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