I haven’t been posting as much as I’d like because it’s just been an incredibly long and trying couple of weeks around here. Yesterday and today were particularly horrible. If anyone who wanders by here could say a prayer for our family, it would be much appreciated. And if you want to ship us some [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Long Couple of Weeks
Posted in family, tagged not posting much, prayer request on February 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Teaching Creation Science or ID? A formula for putting your child’s Christian faith at risk.
Posted in homeschooling, religion, tagged "Intelligent Design", christianity, creationism, evolution, homeschooling on February 25, 2008 | 41 Comments »
In my last post I kind of poked at those who use ridiculous notions of socialization to criticize homeschooling. Today, I’m going to sharpen my stick and point it in the direction of some of my fellow homeschoolers. It is my firm belief that an unfortunate number of Christian homeschoolers are putting their [...]
Beware the unsocialized homeskoollers!
Posted in education, homeschooling, humor, tagged anti-homeschooling, apparel, homeschooling, humor, life on February 19, 2008 | 8 Comments »
You know how sometimes you hear someone express an opinion which demonstrates clearly that they actually have no idea what they are talking about? Like that poor girl from the Miss Teen USA contest whose answer to the question, “why do you think so many Americans can’t find the USA on a map?” became the [...]
Ricki Lake did something I won’t do . . .
Posted in being mom, culture, tagged child birth, current events, family, homebirth, life, parenting, Ricki Lake on February 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Normally I trend a little towards the crunchy end of life. I make bread from scratch. I garden. I breast fed all four of my children, including my youngest who is still nursing. I wore them in slings around town. I homeschool. But there are just some places I [...]
Spilled Kool-aid and Montessori Education
Posted in being mom, kids, life, pictures, tagged education, family, kids, life, montessori, spilling on February 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Many moons back, we had our oldest son, and for one year, our younger son enrolled in Montessori schools. When I began homeschooling, the first books I bought were the Teaching Montessori at Home books by Elizabeth Hainstock and Lee Davis. (There is one for preschool and another for grade school. I [...]
The Carnival of Homeschooling Is Up!
Posted in education, homeschooling, tagged carnival of homeschooling, freaks, homeschoors, just kidding on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s Carnival of Homeschooling is up over at The Voice of Experience. Grab a cup of coffee and head on over to see what’s going on with us unsocialized, withdrawn from the world and weak of faith homeschoolers Kidding. Kidding. Thanks to Eric for putting it together.
Jesus, Virtuous Vanilla Lip Balm, and a Prostitute
Posted in culture, religion, tagged "looking good for jesus", christianity, insulting Christianity, kenneth bailey, religion on February 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I wrote an article recently for a magazine about “The Jesus Brand”. It basically revolved around our relationship as Christians with Christian retailing, but if I had seen this doozy of a product line before writing it, I may well have gone in a different direction with it:
The tagline on the webpage says [...]
“RAM” Voters
Posted in culture, current events, politics, tagged irate voters, politics on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Doug Shoen wrote a column in today’s Washington Post warning politicians to beware of what he is calling RAMs or “restless and anxious voters”. Aside from his nauseating fawning over his current employer, Bill Clinton, I think Shoen nails something important about the current state of the American voter – we’ve had it.
From the [...]
Yankee French Bread
Posted in cooking, family, tagged baking, bread, cooking, family, food, life, yummy on February 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And now for something completely different. . .
I’m going to share my family’s secret recipe for Yankee French Bread. Actually, I found this recipe in GQ, of all places years ago and have used it ever since. It’s super easy and gives you a wonderful, dense, slightly sour loaf that keeps well in a grocery [...]
“My yoke is easy and my burden is light . . .”
Posted in religion, tagged christianity, faith, hard times, religion, yoke on February 9, 2008 | 18 Comments »
Today was a tough day in our household (see the post below), but a conversation over at the Crunchy Cons blog lead me to remember something I’ve learned for times like these. It centers around this verse:
Come to me all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my [...]
