Posted in Random Thoughts on Thursday, 27 December 2007 | No Comments »
Priests brawl at Bethlehem birthplace of Jesus
Evidently, this isn’t the first time. Yup. Stick a bunch of sinners in the same room and give them something of value to share and there will be trouble.
Posted in Homeschooling on Wednesday, 26 December 2007 | 1 Comment »
After much deliberation, I went with the Sonlight Ultra Microscope. It has all the features I want, plus the price was the best after my club discount.
This is the best picture I could find.
Posted in Home, Random Thoughts on Wednesday, 26 December 2007 | 1 Comment »
Time to muddle through my aspirations and goals for 2008.
Time to pull out the Sonlight Core 3 Instructor’s Guide and last year’s lesson book to figure out where Flower Child left off and to plan her future schedule. She has one book left in Beautiful Feet’s History of the Horse.
Time to write out the January [...]
Posted in Country Life, Food, Sustainable Living on Monday, 24 December 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been composing a post about this very subject in my head for months, but haven’t been able to get the words on paper exactly the way I want. In the meantime, my friend Susan has written a great post on that very subject.
Of particular note:
Every now and then, I think it might be better [...]
Posted in Family, Hidden Art on Monday, 24 December 2007 | 1 Comment »
Making a gingerbread house every year is Flower Child’s tradition. She makes them from a kit (bought at Walmart or Hobby Lobby) and completely by herself. Sometimes Rooster and Princess help, but they usually get bored before the final product is complete. This is the 2007 version, fourth in a series.
Here’s the 2006 version:
Posted in Diabetes, Family on Wednesday, 12 December 2007 | 2 Comments »
Today was Rooster’s quarterly visit at the endocrinologists. The Nurse Practitioner had nothing but good things to say about Rooster and about us, his parents. She repeatedly mentioned that we must be great parents because Rooster has so far avoided many of the complications teens with diabetes encounter.
I do NOT feel like a “great” parent [...]
Posted in Family on Tuesday, 11 December 2007 | 3 Comments »
Ten years ago today, Flower Child made her entrance to this world.
If only she were always this quiet and contemplative.
Posted in Random Thoughts on Monday, 10 December 2007 | 4 Comments »
Aspirations for 2007
Well. I learned how to make grape jelly. And VERY, VERY good grape jelly, I might add!
Posted in Family on Wednesday, 5 December 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been given a wonderful gift this week: The chance to watch my two beautiful daughters dance together. No, not just rockin’ around the house, but real, live ballet. They are dancing together as flowers in the Nutcracker. Of the five girls, there is another sister pair and then one of Princess’s best friends.
My heart [...]
Posted in Faith, Family on Monday, 3 December 2007 | 5 Comments »
When you think your children are oblivious to your feelings, think again.
I said Merry Christmas to our car-hop at Sonic tonight. Very thoughtfully, Princess turned to me and said, “I can’t believe how often you say ‘Merry Christmas’. Last year you were so anti-Christmas.”
Dh and I truthfully believed that we were doing a good job [...]
Posted in Food, Hidden Art on Sunday, 2 December 2007 | 2 Comments »
Ugh. A couple of folks have asked for details on the soup recipe. Ugh. Details? I don’t need no stinkin’ details!
Uh… that’s probably why I never make the same dish twice.
Okay, anything that comes in a can will be the can that is the same size as the gazillion cans of Campbell’s soup [...]
