carol | February 13, 2010
Bob and Mark call Sarah Palin on her birthday
BAM – Happy Birthday, Sarah Palin!
[For Sarah's birthday] “I told my kids all I wanted was a clean house… please.”
“Why are you [Sarah] living in their head [WH] rent-free?” LOL
Piper was in a play that night called Annie.
Chris Wallace on Palin Behind the Scenes
“Her relationship with her daughter (Piper) was so natural, so low-key.”
carol | December 28, 2009
Derek makes fun of me for something that is frequently in the sitcom, “The Middle”, and also in the movie, “The Blind Side.” It goes along the lines, “Children, thank your mother for going to town to bring home supper for you.” Well, I tell YOU, I am thankful I don’t have to cook all the time and can bring home pizza or a bag of burgers. It’s a luxury for which I am truly grateful. Home cooked meals are sometimes a complete waste of time and energy. So there. 
carol | December 28, 2009
C8 and L5 decorating the little ceramic tree from Grammy G.
The Fisher-Price Nativity Scene
Our Teddy Bear Christmas Tree
This year, I surprised the children with their own trees for their rooms.
The pink is for C8 of course.
B11 and L5 have the blue one in their room.
The little trees add a new tradition.
carol | December 8, 2009
“Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.”
Marcelene Cox“My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.”
Author Unknown“This mess is a place!”
Author Unknown“I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don’t have any clean laundry, because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?”
Author Unknown
carol | November 24, 2009
Christmas Decorating and Family Christmas Traditions
http://parentingfreedom.com/2008/12/04/christmas-decorating-and-family-christmas-traditions/
carol | October 19, 2009
20 Things I learned in my week without my computer (from Jennifer)
http://www.conversiondiary.com/2009/10/20-things-i-learned-in-my-week-without.html
7. “The internet tempts me to over-value my own opinions (especially micro-communication tools like Twitter and email). This week I caught myself hanging on to every single opinion I had about anything, a habit I’d formed from constantly emailing and tweeting friends with every little thought I had. When I wrote the ideas down on paper to express later by phone or in person, I realized that most of them were pretty inane, things that I would have forgotten about altogether in the days before I had an internet connection.”
13. “Getting on my computer makes it very easy to forget what my goals for the day are. Especially because I have tendencies toward ADD, I go into ‘monkey with shiny object’ mode with all the great, interconnected information available on the internet; I all too easily get sucked in and completely forget what I was trying to accomplish in the day.”
17. “The same force that drives people to slot machines is what drives me to my computer. I realized that when I mindlessly get online, every time I click it’s like pulling the lever on a slot machine and hoping to hit the jackpot. I’m hoping to hit a virtual jackpot — a blog post that changes my life, an email that blows me away, a hilarious video on YouTube, etc. And the truth is that there’s enough stuff online that if I clicked on enough links or spent enough time on email I would get that payoff I’m looking for. But, just like with slot machines, I need to be careful about spending endless amounts of time just sitting around pulling the lever.”
carol | October 19, 2009
The Domestic Monastery …
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/ron/ron_14domesticmonastery.html
“For example, the mother who stays home with small children experiences a very real withdrawal from the world. Her existence is definitely monastic. Her tasks and preoccupations remove her from the centres of power and social importance. And she feels it. Moreover her sustained contact with young children (the mildest of the mild) gives her a privileged opportunity to be in harmony with the mild, that is, to attune herself to the powerlessness rather than to the powerful.”
carol | May 2, 2009
Still snow in the backyard on May 2nd
carol | April 22, 2009
carol | April 22, 2009
C7 found the first dandelions yesterday. You can see we still have plenty of snow here in Canada.
carol | April 17, 2009
3 Reasons Moms Are Addicted to the Internet
http://www.parenting.com/Common/printArticle.jsp?articleID=1000069606
carol | April 15, 2009
One Day At A Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ExFtojY4Y0I’m only human–I’m just a man/woman.
Help me believe in what I believe and all that I am.
Show me the stairway that I have to climb,
Lord, for my sake, teach me to take, one day at a time.One day at a time, sweet Jesus, that’s all I’m asking of you.
Teach me today, to do all the things that I have to do.
Yesterday’s gone, sweet Jesus, and tomorrow may never be mine.
Lord, for my sake, teach me to take, one day at a time.Do you remember, when you walked among men?
Well, Jesus you know, if you’re looking below, It’s worse now than then.
There’s cheating and stealing–violence and crime.
So for my sake – teach me to take one day at a time.One day at a time, sweet Jesus, that’s all I’m asking of you.
Teach me today, to do all the things that I have to do.
Yesterday’s gone, sweet Jesus, and tomorrow may never be mine.
Lord, for my sake, teach me to take, one day at a time.
carol | April 6, 2009
These are just some of the things we have been doing, not necessarily the best out there, so we are open to suggestions.
We begin the Resurrection Eggs devotions about fifteen days before Easter (to allow missed days). Before we bought these, we had made a set of our own with the devotions straight from Scripture. Some year, I should take the time to combine them the way I like.
ABeka Crucifixion and Resurrection Flashcards – I have to do some editing because of the theology, but the pictures are nice. We read a section or half a section after we do the Resurrection Eggs devotion.
The Risen Savior Set of action figures has been great for the children to act out the story when I read. L4 loves the soldiers who end up in quite a battle by the end of each day’s devotions.
My mother usually boils lots of Easter eggs and supervises the decorating at her house.
Derek and I (and this year N15), watch The Passion of the Christ each year.
We usually have an Easter Egg Hunt on Easter morning. Derek and I hide little plastic eggs filled with wrapped chocolates, gum, coins, etc. around the inside of the house (since there is usually too much snow outside). To make the hunt as fair as possible for four children, each child has his or her own color of egg and must ignore all the other colors. They each have an Easter basket.
We go to church on Easter morning and then to my parents’ house for dinner.
carol | March 25, 2009
Another reason to keep your children close at night.
Hat Tip: http://realchoice.blogspot.com/
