Doesn't B#1 clean up nice?
Learning to enjoy Truth, Beauty and Goodness Together
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Going to the Ball
Here are my kiddos getting ready to leave for the Ball. All of the girls dresses were sewn by them and we were able to borrow a shirt for B#1 to wear. Although B#4 is too young to go to dance, I sent her as the photographer so that I could see all the costumes and some videos that she took for us to watch.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Socks in Crocs
Maybe you have heard of the book by Dr. Suess called Fox in Socks, well in our house it is Socks in Crocs. I mentioned in a previous post about how much B#7 loves his Crocs, which actually have frogs on the top of them. He wears them with shorts, with pajamas, with church clothes and, as you can see by the last picture, with only a diaper. He gets so excited when he wakes up in the morning or from his nap and sees his crocs. We have actually taken to hiding them when we take them off because his little fat feet get so sweaty and smelly in them. Once one of the girls gave him some chocolate chips to snack on and some of them found their way into the crocs. Sweaty feet and chocolate chips...well you can imagine the mess:)
Monday, May 18, 2009
Rosetta Stone Latin Giveaway
Rosetta Stone is the fastest way to learn a language and has been the #1 foreign language curriculum among homeschoolers for a while — and you can WIN the *all new* version 3 Rosetta Stone Homeschool LATIN program… FOR FREE! This is the first year you can get Latin in the brand new Version III update.
This is a $259 program (and believe me it’s worth every penny!)This is a computer based curriculum and Rosetta Stone will also include a headset with microphone, and a supplementary “Audio Companion” CD so you can practice lessons in the car, on the go, or where-ever! Students participate in life-like conversations and actually produce language to advance through the program. Rosetta Stone incorporates listening, reading, grammar, vocabulary and writing along with speaking and pronunciation lessons. For parents, the new Parent Administrative Tools are integrated into the program to allow parents to easily enroll up to ten students in any of 12 predetermined lesson plans, monitor student progress, grade completed work (the program grades the work automatically as the students progress- I love that!), and you can view and print reports for transcripts. Homeschooling a lot of kids at your house? This program is designed to enroll and track up to ten students (five users on two computers) and will work for nearly all ages — from beginning readers up to college students.
To win this most excellent Latin program copy these paragraphs and post them in (or as) your next blog post, and/OR link to the contest from your facebook page and/OR email the information to your homeschool support group – Then go to the original page http://jeneralities.com/ and leave a comment saying that you’ve posted about, or have linked to, the contest. Please make sure the link works to get back to the original contest page when you post. And good luck
This is a $259 program (and believe me it’s worth every penny!)This is a computer based curriculum and Rosetta Stone will also include a headset with microphone, and a supplementary “Audio Companion” CD so you can practice lessons in the car, on the go, or where-ever! Students participate in life-like conversations and actually produce language to advance through the program. Rosetta Stone incorporates listening, reading, grammar, vocabulary and writing along with speaking and pronunciation lessons. For parents, the new Parent Administrative Tools are integrated into the program to allow parents to easily enroll up to ten students in any of 12 predetermined lesson plans, monitor student progress, grade completed work (the program grades the work automatically as the students progress- I love that!), and you can view and print reports for transcripts. Homeschooling a lot of kids at your house? This program is designed to enroll and track up to ten students (five users on two computers) and will work for nearly all ages — from beginning readers up to college students.
To win this most excellent Latin program copy these paragraphs and post them in (or as) your next blog post, and/OR link to the contest from your facebook page and/OR email the information to your homeschool support group – Then go to the original page http://jeneralities.com/ and leave a comment saying that you’ve posted about, or have linked to, the contest. Please make sure the link works to get back to the original contest page when you post. And good luck
Friday, May 15, 2009
This One and That One
Since the little boys are so close in age and need lots of attention the girls and I have found ourselves saying things like..."you take this one and I will take that one". So we have taken to calling them "this one" which is B#8 and "that one" which is B#7. We don't do it all the time for fear that they will think that is their names:) B#7 already responds quite willingly "Pookie".
Friday, May 1, 2009
Obama's tax cuts
Obama Taxes America's Patience
While you would never know it from the mainstream media, President Obama's approval ratings are the second worst for any President after 100 days in forty years. Only Bill Clinton's numbers were worse--and by one percentage point! That outlook is unlikely to improve once taxpayers realize the impact of this week's budget resolution. Not only are they on the hook for the President's $3.5 trillion plan, but their middle-income tax cuts--a signature promise of Obama's candidacy--were dropped from the budget package to make room for the administration's radical social policies. Now that the President has committed Americans to roughly $10 trillion of government spending, he has quietly decided not to extend the middle-income tax relief beyond this year. In February, the stimulus package included a tax credit that provided $400 to individuals and $800 to married couples. Now it appears this "relief" will be a one-time affair. Faced with the decision to keep his word to 95% of Americans or scrap it in favor of his aggressive social agenda, President Obama (much like Bill Clinton after 1992) chose the latter. Why is the middle class not being allowed to keep its modest tax break? To paraphrase Willie Sutton, who was asked why he robbed banks, it's because "that's where the money is." The middle-class tax cut mirage is fading quickly as we approach Obama's first summer in office. Additional Resources Gallup Poll on Obama's first 100 days Associated Press: Taxpayers to get rude surprise
Speak up or Pay up!
While you would never know it from the mainstream media, President Obama's approval ratings are the second worst for any President after 100 days in forty years. Only Bill Clinton's numbers were worse--and by one percentage point! That outlook is unlikely to improve once taxpayers realize the impact of this week's budget resolution. Not only are they on the hook for the President's $3.5 trillion plan, but their middle-income tax cuts--a signature promise of Obama's candidacy--were dropped from the budget package to make room for the administration's radical social policies. Now that the President has committed Americans to roughly $10 trillion of government spending, he has quietly decided not to extend the middle-income tax relief beyond this year. In February, the stimulus package included a tax credit that provided $400 to individuals and $800 to married couples. Now it appears this "relief" will be a one-time affair. Faced with the decision to keep his word to 95% of Americans or scrap it in favor of his aggressive social agenda, President Obama (much like Bill Clinton after 1992) chose the latter. Why is the middle class not being allowed to keep its modest tax break? To paraphrase Willie Sutton, who was asked why he robbed banks, it's because "that's where the money is." The middle-class tax cut mirage is fading quickly as we approach Obama's first summer in office. Additional Resources Gallup Poll on Obama's first 100 days Associated Press: Taxpayers to get rude surprise
Speak up or Pay up!
Birthdays and Babies
Boy, it has been a long time since I posted anything but that certainly doesn't mean nothing has been going on around here. Just that I haven't had time to sit and blog. We have all been busy in the past weeks with birthdays, babies, gardening and sewing. The first birthday was B#1's 18th birthday. I still can not believe that I am old enough to have an 18 year old or that I have been married long enough to have an 18 year old. It still feels like maybe 10 years. God is Good! We had quite a big splurge for B#1's birthday. A usual eating out time for our family usually consists of Wendy's where we can usually get out of there spending less than $30 for our family of 10(9 that actually require food from the menu) but we wanted to take him out for a nice birthday dinner so after DH and I tried out some different places we decided on a place at the beach. We had a good time and some good food, went to the outlet mall and then walked on the beach.
B#7 is doing better with it all lately but it has taken lots of consistency on our part, which can be hard when you are nursing a baby. He sure loves the baby but isn't too sure that he loves it when mom is holding baby. Here is a picture of his crocs which he absolutely adores. He asks for them to be put on as soon as he wakes up and we have to pry them off at nap time.
Next we celebrated my birthday. I was instructed to pick up a cake mix and some candles since I was the one going into town on the day we decided to celebrate. I thought I would be funny and pick up the number candles instead of the straight ones so I bought a 2 and a 9 so that I could be 29 instead of 37 but DH, funny guy that he is, is always funnier than I am and quicker to the punch so he decided that I could be 92 instead of 29! I would put a picture on here of the cake but I can't find it on my camera card. Oh well.
Baby, as we still call him, is now 6 weeks old. What a chunk he has gotten to be in the past couple of days. He has slept for 5-6 hours straight for the last two nights which has been so nice for me. I was getting up with him every two hours, sometimes only getting an hour of sleep in between so 5 or 6 hours is such a blessing.
B#7 is doing better with it all lately but it has taken lots of consistency on our part, which can be hard when you are nursing a baby. He sure loves the baby but isn't too sure that he loves it when mom is holding baby. Here is a picture of his crocs which he absolutely adores. He asks for them to be put on as soon as he wakes up and we have to pry them off at nap time.
The girls have been busy sewing. B#2 and B#3 are making dresses for an upcoming ball that they are going to and B#4 has been busy helping a dear friend of ours to sew her ball dress. She did find time in there on the sewing machine to make this dress for B#6, which turned out great...
B#7's wild hair after his nap
B#7's feet.
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