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Saturday, July 19, 2008
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Just put me on the sick list, ...for now.... :j
I'm not taking many pictures right now, because I am mostly taking it easy in bed... Waiting for some things to resolve themselves.... might take a few weeks, but it's better than surgery...right??? I guess we'll see... If I don't comment as much as usual, thats why!
I need some quiet and relaxation.... maybe another trip to the beach???
Blessings!!
Friday, July 11, 2008
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Weekly Photo Challenge- We are as Uniform as we want to be....lol
This weeks subject was suggested by Closethippie Uniforms Everyone is welcome to join in. All you have to do is post one or more photos regarding the subject on your site and comment on the Weekly Photo Challenge's site that you have posted, so we can all come by and have a look.Final posting day is on Thursday. Each Friday there will be a new challenge as long as you keep sending in subjects. (See the two posts below this one for previous and upcoming subjects.)
The photo challenge is not a contest. It's not about who comes up with the best photo or who has the most expensive equipment. I would like it to be about people from all over the world who love taking pictures. I think there's enough competition going on in the world, so you can't win anything, except maybe some new xanga friends.
My family in German (Bavarian) dress.... what fun it was!
Our children, incl. one born there.
Friday, July 04, 2008
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Keep on the Sunny Side...
I got this from Cowboy_Christian's site... It's an iPod game.
I think that you can know a lot about a person by the kind of songs that they listen to. Not just the type
of music (as you might soon see), but the type of songs. Here is a little glimpse into who I am. I do not
really like these little surveys, so you can decide just to see the songs.
They're all good!
RULES:
1. Put your MP3 player/ iPod on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
The Christmas Song by James TaylorHOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
Wildfire by Michael MartinWHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY OR GIRL
He Has Told you O man by Harrow FamilyWHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by Manheim SteamrollerWHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Sweet Home Alabama by Tennessee River AuthorityWHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Create in Me a Clean Heart by John Michael TalbotWHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
My Heart would know by Hank WilliamsWHAT IS 2 + 2?
Ransomed Heart by John EldredgeWHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Unless the Lord Build the House...by John Michael TalbotWHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
O God our Help in ages Past by the MarksmenWHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Love Me Tomorrow by ChicagoWHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Auld Lang Syne by James TaylorWHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
O Come O Come Emmanuel by Phil KeaggyWHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTERESTs
I've Grown Accustomed to her Face Herb Alpert and the Tijuana BrassWHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
Track 06 (I really do hate sports....esp running)WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
He Giveth More Grace by the Harrow FamilyWHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Sh Boom by the BoomsWHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Keep on the Sunny Side by the Tennesse River Authority
lol, Pretty Funny and a fun game, Thanks Cowboy Christian.... Oh and THIS IS THE ORDER THEY CAME OUT!!! I PROMISE!! lol
Thursday, July 03, 2008
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We're Getting Sparks Here!!!--Epileptics don't look at this :)
HAVE A WONDERFUL
FOURTH OF JULY!!
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
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Candid Camera!!!--weekly photo challenge
This weeks subject was suggested by Assipassi Candids
Everyone is welcome to join in. All you have to do is post one or more photos regarding the subject on your site and comment here that you have posted, so we can all come by and have a look.
One of our many trips to the zoo resulted in several candids (yes they knew the camera was along but they were busy having fun) So here are some candids of my children enjoying the Dallas Zoo!
Are we dizzy yet?? (3 of my 6 daughters!)
Look over there!!! Big bro holding little sister up to see!
Dad is carrying little sister now!
Found some ICE CREAM!!!! :)
Couldn't resist the Kangaroos!!!
Saturday, June 28, 2008
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Some of my Favorite Things... (a quiz)
1) LAST MOVIE U SAW IN A THEATRE?
My dh and I watched Princess Diaries in an almost empty theater in Dallas
2) WHAT BOOK ARE U READING?
The Family Nobody Wanted by Helen Doss
3) FAVORITE BOARD GAME?
Careers
4) FAVORITE MAGAZINE?
Reader's Digest or Grit
5) FAVORITE SMELLS?
home baked bread or fresh rose
6) FAVORITE SOUNDS?
water falling over pebbles
7) WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD?
helpless in the grip of nurses and doctors
8) WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN U WAKE?
What time is it?
9) FAVORITE FAST FOOD PLACE?
Chick Fil A
10) FUTURE CHILD'S NAME?
Don't know if there'll be any more...
11) FINISH THIS STATEMENT—’IF I HAD A LOT OF MONEY I’D......
help family members that need it, after paying tithes of course
12) DO U DRIVE FAST?
I've always gone around corners faster than Mom liked! 8)
13) DO U SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL?
no
14) STORMS–COOL OR SCARY?
a little bit scary, but awesome
15) WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CAR?
a light blue Ford Pinto that my Grandfather pin striped for me, sigh
16) FAVORITE DRINK?
Mountain Dew
17) FINISH THIS STATEMENT-IF I HAD THE TIME I WOULD…
go back and finish my degree and become an engineer or photographer
18) DO YOU EAT THE STEMS ON BROCCOLI?
no
19) IF YOU COULD DYE YOUR HAIR ANY OTHER COLOR, WHAT WOULD BE YOUR CHOICE?
red
20) NAME ALL THE DIFFERENT CITIES/TOWNS U HAVE LIVED IN?
Phoenix,AZ Redondo Beach,CA Tulsa,OK Oklahoma City,OK Glendale,AZ Mansfield,MO Longview,TX Richardson,TX Greenville,TX Dorum,Germany
21) FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH?
Soccer (for the amazing agility and dexterity) and Golf(for the quietness)
23) WHATS UNDER YOUR BED?
shoes and books
24) WOULD U LIKE TO BE BORN AS YOURSELF AGAIN??
Fortunately, I don't have to answer that question!! :)
25) MORNING PERSON OR NIGHT OWL?
Night Owl
26) OVER EASY OR SUNNY SIDE UP?
Over easy with toast and bacon...
27) FAVORITE PLACE TO RELAX?
In bed with a book
28) FAVORITE PIE?
French Silk Pie (chocolate lovers' to die for)
29) FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR?
Chocolate with Daquiri Ice a close second
What's some of your Favs??? -
What is a Home-Schooler, really??
Home schooling is not always accepted by the "expert Teachers Community" So here is another article about that problem...
*SONNY SCOTT:
Home-schoolers threaten our cultural comfort *
6/8/2008 9:39:01 AM
Daily Journal
"You see them at the grocery, or in a discount store.
It's a big family by today's standards - "just like stair steps," as the
old folks say. Freshly scrubbed boys with neatly trimmed hair and girls
with braids, in clean but unfashionable clothes follow mom through the
store as she fills her no-frills shopping list.
There's no begging for gimcracks, no fretting, and no threats from mom.
The older watch the younger, freeing mom to go peacefully about her task.
You are looking at some of the estimated 2 million children being home
schooled in the U.S., and the number is growing. Their reputation for
academic achievement has caused colleges to begin aggressively
recruiting them. Savings to the taxpayers in instructional costs are
conservatively estimated at $4 billion, and some place the figure as
high as $9 billion. When you consider that these families pay taxes to
support public schools, but demand nothing from them, it seems quite a
deal for the public.
Home schooling parents are usually better educated than the norm, and
are more likely to attend worship services. Their motives are many and
varied. Some fear contagion from the anti-clericalism, coarse speech,
suggestive behavior and hedonistic values that characterize secular
schools. Others are concerned for their children's safety. Some want
their children to be challenged beyond the minimal competencies of the
public schools. Concern for a theistic world view largely permeates the
movement.
Indications are that home schooling is working well for the kids, and
the parents are pleased with their choice, but the practice is coming
under increasing suspicion, and even official attack, as in California.
Why do we hate (or at least distrust) these people so much?
Methinks American middle-class people are uncomfortable around the home
schooled for the same reason the alcoholic is uneasy around the
teetotaler.
Their very existence represents a rejection of our values, and an
indictment of our lifestyles. Those families are willing to render unto
Caesar the things that Caesar's be, but they draw the line at their
children. Those of us who have put our trust in the secular state (and
effectively surrendered our children to it) recognize this act of
defiance as a rejection of our values, and we reject them in return.
Just as the jealous Chaldeans schemed to bring the wrath of the king
upon the Hebrew eunuchs, we are happy to sic the state's bureaucrats on
these "trouble makers." Their implicit rejection of America's most
venerated idol, Materialism, (a.k.a. "Individualism") spurs us to heat
the furnace and feed the lions.
Young families must make the decision: Will junior go to day care and
day school, or will mom stay home and raise him? The rationalizations
begin. "A family just can't make it on one income." (Our parents did.)
"It just costs so much to raise a child nowadays." (Yeah, if you buy
brand-name clothing, pre-prepared food, join every club and activity,
and spend half the cost of a house on the daughter's wedding, it does.)
And so, the decision is made. We give up the bulk of our waking hours
with our children, as well as the formation of their minds,
philosophies, and attitudes, to strangers. We compensate by getting a
boat to take them to the river, a van to carry them to Little League, a
2,800-square-foot house, an ATV, a zero-turn Cub Cadet, and a fund to
finance a brand-name college education. And most significantly, we claim
"our right" to pursue a career for our own
"self-fulfillment."
Deep down, however, we know that our generation has eaten its seed corn.
We lack the discipline and the vision to deny ourselves in the hope of
something enduring and worthy for our posterity. We are tired from
working extra jobs, and the looming depression threatens our 401k's.
Credit cards are nearly maxed, and it costs a $100 to fuel the Suburban.
Now the kid is raising hell again, demanding the latest Play Station as
his price for doing his school work ... and there goes that modest young
woman in the home-made dress with her four bright-eyed, well-behaved
home-schooled children in tow. Wouldn't you just love to wipe that
serene look right off her smug face?
Is it any wonder we hate her so?"
Sonny Scott a community columnist, lives on Sparta Road in Chickasaw
County and his e-mail address is sonnyscott@yahoo.com.
If you Home-school, I hope that you are able to dodge the pitfalls of stereotypedness and keep your children a little more raggedy edged and less well read, just for your own sakes of course!!! lol Then of course, there is always the very well known problem of spelling challenged hs's!! vbg
Blessings on your Weekend.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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Back to the Beach :)
This weeks subject is suggested by StormInHeavn
Natural Beauty
Everyone is welcome to join in. All you have to do is post one or more photos regarding the subject on your site and comment here that you have posted, so we can all come by and have a look.
These are old pictures from 5 years ago, but still beautiful... We lived in Northern Germany for two years and this was from a walk down the coast of the North Sea. When the tide is out, there are mud flats for about a mile!! But here it's less than halfway out.... :)
Blessings on your Summer!
Thursday, June 19, 2008
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Picnic Weather.....?
We are having storms here, but beyond that it is summer and the heat is in the 90's most days. My sugar snap peas are burnt to a crisp.... well I knew they were only a "cool weather" plant... but it's sad anyway. I have little tomatoes coming and zuchini and melon with flowers..
Peaches coming on the new trees...
Daughters' been picking blackberries for days...
What can we do that doesn't require gasoline???Picnic in the front yard...
Swim in the pond (if you have one)...
Walk to the library....
Bicycle to the grocery store???
Carpool (hey you can use the HOV lane now!!)
Grow some watermelon for the really hot days...
Plant a flower patch...
Read a good book...Listen to your iPod....Have a really great summer!! :D
Edit:: I just found I have a premium acct (hence the badge) and I don't know how I got it! Once before someone else paid for a few months of it, this time I have no clue. So however, or whoever, Thank you very much!!! I'm glad to see the ads go...
Sunday, June 15, 2008
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The power of good habits...
June 15 --Get a Move On
"And beside this . . . add . ." 2 Peter 1:5You have inherited the Divine nature, says Peter (v.4), now screw your attention down and form habits, give diligence, concentrate. "Add" means all that character means. No man is born either naturally or supernaturally with character, he has to make character. Nor are we born with habits; we have to form habits on the basis of the new life God has put into us. We are not meant to be illuminated versions, but the common stuff of ordinary life exhibiting the marvel of the grace of God. Drudgery is the touchstone of character. The great hindrance in spiritual life is that we will look for big things to do. "Jesus took a towel . . . and began to wash the disciples' feet."
There are times when there is no illumination and no thrill, but just the daily round, the common task. Routine is God's way of saving us between our times of inspiration. Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.
It is the "adding" that is difficult. We say we do not expect God to carry us to heaven on flowery beds of ease, and yet we act as if we did! The tiniest detail in which I obey has all the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it. If I do my duty, not for duty's sake, but because I believe God is engineering my circumstances, then at the very point of my obedience the whole superb grace of God is mine through the Atonement.
Again, this is from "My Utmost for His Highest" by Oswald Chambers
Blessings on this Father's Day!!!
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About Me
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Mom of 10, teacher, thinker, wife of 25yrs, Believer for 39!
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Still trying to get well, at the moment I dont think it's working...:/
