29 August 2016

On Leaving the House

To Whom it May Concern:

Now that I've finished yelling, I'm going to just write something about our day.  I'm very sorry I yelled at you.  I was very upset and hurt.  And embarrassed.
Unrelated photo of a dala horse in Lindsborg, Kansas.

I want you to know that when we go out of the house, I really do want to be proud of you.  I want to feel I can take you anywhere and know that you will be the master of the unspoken word.  (In other words, zip it sometimes, guys!)

If you're not someone's doctor, please don't tell someone what colour they are, remark upon tattoos or strange scars, or ask "what's that?" about anything that strikes you as odd.  I'm pretty sure they already know they have tattoos or scars or are fat or whatever.  Please.  You embarrass that other person and you embarrass me.  I love you very much, but it hurts me to see you hurt someone else's feelings.  I don't think you meant to, but you sure did.

So next time, please just don't say anything.  Please.  You're too big for comments like that to be understandable at this point.

When we're in the store, I'd like you to use "relevant speech."  That means if we're looking for paints, please don't tell anyone everything about your entire family or what you ate for breakfast today or whether you're going to have a party later.  And pleaaaaase don't invite strangers to my house to the party.  Mmmkay?  Thanks.

A final word.  When we're in the hardware store, never use any of the tools.  Again, I really do want to take you places and be proud of you.  I do.  And I'll always love you no matter what.  But to make me proud, you need to do things like remembering to stay with me all the time and not touch anything you're not supposed to handle.  You just do!

I know your note to me would remind me not to yell and lose my temper.  I am sorry.  But to use the standby excuse I keep hearing?  "You started it!"

Let's do better tomorrow.  I'm going to go into time out now by my computer with my coffee.  I will give you a break with the computer in just a bit when you are done with your worksheets.  Tomorrow is a new day.  Love you!

Mom.

22 August 2016

Farrah Abraham Considers Homeschooling Her Daughter

Her seven-year-old is too sexy, too rich, too smart and everyone's just TOO jealous. OH YEAH, that's why most people homeschool, right? Her kid, her life. But I have a feeling Ms. Abraham is too lazy to follow through... she's just yapping at this point and getting a lot of attention for it.  At least this is better attention than starring in pornos and stuff like she did before.

What-evah.  All those famous people are crazy.

15 August 2016

Tea Party Math!

Mom cut out several paper pizzas in fifths.  The children decorated these and had an "irrational fraction" tea party with their stuffed friends! 

The party was ruint when Mom revealed the true object was to figure out math problems!  What a gyp!  Baby Batman didn't think it was all that bad, though. 

04 August 2016

My Geography Lesson

The littler kids had to do some writing about what they'd like to study this year. Woodjie would like to learn about Texas. "All the macho people come from Texas," he wrote. "They have maracas."

01 August 2016

Today's Moment of Truth Devotional

I'm not usually one for devotionals.  Often they're full of absolutely irrelevant and hokey stories or they encourage you to "praise God" after throwing a verse or two at you.  Thanks, no!

So I was very glad to see Lee Strobel and Mark Mittelberg come out with Today's Moment of Truth.  This is not the dopey ladies' Bible study you did in church, folks.  It's a series of short, meaningful and intelligent insights that won't take up the whole day to read and study. 

The "intelligent" bit is important to me.  While I don't want to get bogged down controversies that people made up (Is Pokemon Go really ok?), I do want to find some Bible-related thought that speaks to today's world.

This is it, folks!  It's a nice, thick book but a smaller one and easy to carry or tuck into a bag.  Nice printing and binding, good and sturdy pages.  It's something I'd be proud to present as a gift to a new Christian or someone who is struggling with a few of the basics.

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Bringing Garbage Home

Some people up the street were throwing this table away. It was in pretty bad shape and one of the legs was off. I've glued the leg back...