Archive for October, 2008
GREAT Movie! Expelled-No Intelligence Allowed
Author: Carrie
I just wanted to share what a great movie I thought this was. If you haven’t seen it, it is now available for purchase or rent and I highly recommend it. I am one of those people who gets a thrill learning about apologetics. For those non-religious zealot types, this means defending, or reasoning the faith. I just LOVE seeing the evidence God has left for us proving his existence! I guess I have always been a doubting-Thomas at heart, and crave those concrete reminders that He has this world all wrapped up. Read the rest of this entry »
read comments (0)NaNoWriMo, anyone?
Author: Carrie
I don’t know what I am thinking, but I just signed up to write a novel in one month! For those of you who don’t recognize that hip, cryptic acronym in the post title, it stands for National Novel Writing Month. It is a contest held every November in which crazies from all over the world try to churn out 50,000 words vaguely resembling a novel in 30 days. It sounds ridiculous, and it really is considering I have never even attempted to write any kind of novel, novella, short story, literary prose, bathroom-wall poem, etc. I guess I did write the Ode to SuperGeek, but Rick James was really the wind beneath my wings on that one. I will hopefully be able to blog occasionally about the progress (or lack thereof) of the book, and probably the sad condition of the house and children. SuperGeek will be doing this crazy thing with me, once again proving we are weird beyond words, and a match made in heaven (the oddball, e-harmony section of heaven!) We will also likely be in some sick competitive game with each other over this. It will all be great blogging material! I may even post pictures of the gi-normous, man-eating, soul-sucking, Mt. Gibraltar of dirty laundry that I foresee growing in my house this next month. Stay tuned for what is sure to be a dramatic adventure in self-inflicted havoc! Also, misery loves company. Let me know if you want to join in! It starts on Saturday!
Week in (not so) brief
Author: Carrie
I have been meaning to post for days now, but we’ve been constantly busy doing stuff! So I thought I would just post a brief synopsis of our last few days for all of you who are following our extremely interesting lives.
Teamwork
Author: Carrie
I was willing to contribute. I had good intentions. My blogging prowess and technological savvy was growing by leaps and bounds. My SuperGeek husband had taken me to the on-ramp of the information superhighway (he hates that term) and now I was weaving through the traffic. Surely any monkey with cymbals could handle this! Installing widgets…no problem! Adding images…. piece of cake! If the mystical Oz behind the web curtain wants me to upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress, well, of course I will. Only the latest and greatest for me! SuperGeek had spent hours customizing our new blogs, and now I would make them even better! What could possibly go wrong? I think this says it all. Actually it only takes ONE harmless flake. An entire day, and hours of tech support later, SuperGeek is speaking to me again and has restored BOTH of our blogs which were annihilated by my innocent upgrade. For the two of you who have been reading my blog, yes there are a few posts missing. I will hopefully get some semblance of these posts back up soon. I’ll be sticking to the posting and pictures from now on, thank you 
God’s Wake-up Call
Author: Carrie
I woke up early this morning (6:20am). This is against my nature, so I give credit where credit is due; Divine Intervention. The only other thing that can rouse me at that hour is a crying baby, which I haven’t had in a few years. Thoughts placed on my mind: spending more quality mother-daughter time with Heyhey before she grows up on me and no longer wants to hang out, and the book I was reading last night, Messy Spirituality, reminding me of God’s infinite patience with me in my spiritual walk. Read the rest of this entry »
The Healing Power of Tang
Author: Carrie
Well, the cold has gone from my throat, to my sinuses and has settled in my chest. I wish I could say that I’m one of those tough, martyr-types for whom any illness is just a minor inconvenience. Like a hangnail, to be ignored. (But hangnails are REALLY painful!) Someone who sucks it up and and purposely powers through the day. I guess I’m a bit of a baby (or maybe I just feel things more deeply ) The pale silver lining in misery is that it invites comfort. When in spite of our best over-the-counter efforts, we can’t completely escape feeling horrible, we remember to seek out those things that lift us up in the simplest ways.
Ode to SuperGeek
Author: Carrie
He’s a very geeky dude,
The kind you won’t take home to mutha.
He will never let the ‘net go down,
and you can’t get him off the screen. Read the rest of this entry »
Veggie sculpture (or, Bad Mommy, Bad Mommy!)
Author: Carrie
Let me preface this by saying I am a VERY conscientious mother. I am actually paranoid. Well, the lesson of this story is that it is not beyond even the most neurotic mother to sometimes make a fatal error of judgement. (That is what I tell myself anyway). Just such a lapse occurred when Mastermind, my 6yo asked me if he could play with the hot-peppers. Okay, this is a no-brainer, of COURSE you don’t let children play with hot peppers! Why would ANYONE in their right mind do this!! Here’s the story.
I thought I would use this venue as a way to publish some of my kids’ school work. I guess one of the downers of homeschooling is that you work very hard on something and it can be kind of anti-climactic at the end. No one posts it in the hallway for 600 people to see. There aren’t 31 other kids to look at your project or listen to your report. Well, how’s this for sharing?! Technically, in cyberspace you can share whatever it is with the entire world! So, to whomever it may concern; a report on clipper ships by Heyhey, age 11: clipper-ships1
Self-motivation (or nothing I would ever assign!)
Author: Carrie
This hardly EVER happens, but once in a while, if the planets are aligned just right, and the moon is in the right phase, and the biological clock is set to daylight savings time, one of the kids gets interested in something and runs with it. This anomaly occurred a couple of days ago when Eyebrow got inspired by a Mathtacular video and decided to write down the Roman numerals….to 500! Okay, this may not be as eye-popping to you as it is to me, but this is the kid who’s every muscle will physically melt and he will slump into a lifeless jelly-like blob at the mere thought of writing more than three sentences! The thought occurred to me that if I had ever asked him to do this, well I shudder to think of it! He is not quite finished yet, he got all the way to 366. I know he will finish this. He is just that kind of kid.
The wonder of self-motivation