In defense of homeschooling

David Black recently sent me some interesting points on my welcome page in opposition to (unschooling?) homeschooling. I thought I would make my response into this post since other homeschoolers or potential homeschoolers may have to answer similar questions. It’s obvious he has serious objections to homeschooling and feels state public schooling should be the [...]

Fitness update 4

This is my last fitness update of 2008. New Year’s Day is Thursday. I don’t think I will manage to meet my original goal when I started this plan for the end of the year. I’m going to have to start over with the Slim in 6 since I am so out of shape from [...]

Keep Christ in Christmas?

Let me think this through. I don’t have all the answers. I’m still trying to figure out Christmas.
That may sound a bit strange. Christmas is after all a celebration of Christ’s birth, right? Not so fast.
Here’s a poem and thoughts about why not Christmas posted by A Godly Maiden. Also why Simple Living AK are [...]

Updated Christian Light website

Christian Light has updated their website. It’s now wonderfully easy to use. The even have a quote by me under the testimonials for homeschool: parent-teacher training (I’m Alaska)!
The homeschool (CLE) layout has better descriptions and cover pictures for each course. You can browse by grade or subject. The scope and sequence is available in PDF [...]

Paid for weight loss

Merry Christmas!
One of the gifts from my husband today wasn’t anything you can buy in a store. He gave me a 3 ring binder (ok that part you can get in a store) with just 3 pages in it. On them he outlined a plan to pay us for loosing weight and keeping it off. [...]

Another reason against state churches

If you think state control of churches ended 450 years ago with the Reformation, think again. In Germany, there is a proposal to limit who can attend Christams Eve Midnight Mass to only those who have paid church tax. I found this story on Yahoo. Perhaps they should set aside most rows for church tax [...]

Happy solstice!

Happy Winter Solstice everyone! I’m not ashamed to admit I’m celebrating and rejoicing over Winter Solstice. No it doesn’t have some mythical or religious importance like it may for others. For my family, the fact that the days are now going to be getting longer is reason enough to celebrate. We live sub-arctic Alaska where [...]

12 Days of Christmas meaning

I’ve known there was a lot of hidden symbolism in the old carol The Twelve Days of Christmas but haven’t know exactly what they are before my dad sent me this today.
From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly. Someone during that era wrote this carol [...]

Sick kids?

I think my kids are getting sick. Karen has a stuffy nose and small cough. It doesn’t seem to be bothering her much. I’ll give her some get well tea. Richard volunteered to take a nap and actually is doing so rather than playing in bed. This is very unusual for him except when he [...]

Falfel

I had this can of garbanzo beans (AKA chick peas) in my pantry forever. I don’t even remember where it came from or if I was even the one who got it. It’s just been living in my pantry.
Today the kids were hungry and we are out of thawed peanut butter (we still have about [...]