Instead of a show….

Take a moment and go and read Amos 5:21-24 then listen to this song

Thursday

I so wanted to sleep in today but my body disagreed with me.  :o(  So I was up and having coffee by 8am. 

Yesterday I went shopping in the city with my mom.  I think she managed to get all her xmas shopping done on one trip.  Way to go mom!

1.  Jordan bought himself a new iPod Touch yesterday.  He totally loves his new toy.  And now Deanna is drooling over it and she wants “a shiny new toy too”.  LOL!  I could have predicted that one coming. 

2.  Deanna worked hard on her Arts Extravaganza project yesterday (and today… it is almost finished!)  Who knew there was such an array of outrageous fashion out there?

3.  pet potty area – When I looked out the window this morning, I noticed someone had shoveled a path and a large area that was clearly  meant to be a pet potty area.  I figured Jordan had done it, but he said no.  Then I assumed maybe Wes had done it but once again I was wrong… it was DEANNA!! She said she was tired of the pets doing their “business” where she had to walk so she made the potty area for them.  Great thinking Deanna!

4.  old ipod – so while I was at Future Shop yesterday I asked about getting Jordan’s old iPod fixed (I think it needs a battery) but the salesman told me it can’t be done.  Well there was another guy behind me who spoke up and told me that it could be done, you could buy a kit at London Drugs or check out Youtube for how to videos.  Awesome info to have.  Thank you to the stranger at Future Shop.

5.  writing practice Jordan  --  I had Jordan work on writing out a Bible verse for his friend’s blessing birthday party this Saturday.  He has really good handwriting when he wants to.  He told me he had to go pretty slow though. 

6.  eat pray love  -- I bought the movie Eat,Pray,Love yesterday at Costco.  It is a great movie, we had to watch it when I got home last night.   So many good one liners in it.  I love the character of Richard… we all need a Richard in our lives. 

7.  spelling problems with weird  -- yesterday while I was shopping in the city, I get a phone call from Deanna asking me to how to spell weird.  I informed her that is one word that I constantly spell wrong.  But I gave what I thought was the correct spelling (i before e except after c).  She even asked her dad how to spell it and he gave them same answer (with the same reasoning of i before e).  So while I was editing her paper today, it turns out we had spelled weird wrong.  She was none impressed with us.  But I advised her to double check with a dictionary or Google or something next time there is a word in question.  LOL!

8.  merry wednesday --- I picked up a little treat for the kids while I was in the city and when I got home I handed it over to them with the greeting “Merry Wednesday!”.  They tell me today they should have more Merry Wednesdays!

9.  how to sew a button and other nifty things your grandmother knew by erin bried   --  http://www.amazon.ca/How-Sew-Button-Things-Grandmother/dp/0345518756 – I picked up this book yesterday while I was at Michael’s.  I think it is going to be a great fun resource for “home ec class”.  :o)

10.  not the monitor… something is wrong with the pc…. grrrr  ---  Wes came home tonight and noticed that my desktop computer was having issues STILL!!!  I thought the problem was my monitor BUT tonight the picture on the monitor was all broke and pixelated (is that a word?).  So now I have no idea what the problem is.  I am not a happy camper.

morning coffee time rabbit trails…

 

 

 

1.  YIKES!  I am glad we took our trip to the States before this level of body searches came into play - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/19/AR2010111904282.html?sid=ST2010111806038

2.  Popular Free Finds for Jr. High / Middle Schoolers  - http://www.freelyeducate.com/2010/11/our-most-popular-free-finds-for-jr-high-middle-schoolers.html

3.  Great literature website shared by a friend -

(found online)
>>>>> http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/
Included on this site are study guides for a lot of middle/high school
literature...you have to make up your own answer keys and tests, but the
discussion questions and activities included are really good. For my 7th
grader, I took several of these study guides and made them into lapbooks,
making minibooks for lots of the information contained in the study guide
(author info, setting info, as well as some book-specific content, like
point-of-view, symbolism, etc.). For my 5th grader (who hates to lapbook!),
I just printed out the study guide and she worked her way through it as she
read the book (we just finished Witch of Blackbird Pond...one of my all-time
favorites).<<<<<<<<<<<<

4.  I love this church’s website – focused on Acts 2:42 -- http://messiahwf.org/

5.  Popular free finds for high schoolers - http://www.freelyeducate.com/2010/11/our-most-popular-free-finds-for-high-schoolers.html

6.  From my friend Terry (too good not to share):

I decided I would plan our Christmas HS and found

the below resources to help me.  Thought you would

like to see them as well.

http://cheeriosunderfoot.blogspot.com/2010/11/christmas-homeschooling-resources.html

http://hsbapost.com/2009/12/08/carnival-of-homeschooling-christmas-ornament-edition/

http://www.takerootandwrite.com/2010/11/holiday-memory-making-and-homeschool.html

http://www.takerootandwrite.com/2009/12/gift-ideas-for-homeschooling-families.html#more

http://www.takerootandwrite.com/2009/12/learning-loving-living-at-christmas.html#more

Encouragement for the HS mom today - so good!

http://www.takerootandwrite.com/2008/12/the-family-christmas-photo.html#more

One of the things we will do FOR SURE is sing a Christmas Carol together each day.

I actually made a Hymn Binder last year and tried to teach the girls a new hymn every

week (we go to a church that sings mostly choruses and my girls didn't like the

hymns because they weren't familiar with them).  We discussed the words and sang

the hymn 2 or 3x that week - and the girls like them more....  Lots of good theology in

some hymns.