Hello everyone! again I appologize for not writing sooner! so a lot has happened..............we are gonna skip that part and go straight to this last weekend. I went skating with my homeschool group. we had my dad's birthday. I had my Birthday......I am sooo old. My dad let me hold the steering wheel while going 70mph!!! that sounds dumb but it was fun. OH I got a Tim Hawkins video from my family so now my family quotes it all the time. Monday my brother graduated from Cub Scouts, with honnors! Tuesday was homeschool group, not much happened there, we watched a cool movie. last night we had the A.w.a.n.a. Grande Prix! and my youngest brother got 4th place in speed!!!!!!!!! and today we went to a gym and art class. that was my week. and Now I can tell you about something I couldn't before! in January my parents made a deal with me; if I could get my friend to help me clean my room and if I could keep it clean until my birthday I could get contact lences!! so January 24th I think, my friend came over and we cleaned until 2:30 am! we didn't go to bed until 3 and didn't fall asleep until 4!! then we got up at 8 because we couldn't sleep any more and ate breakfast, messed around with the piano and then finished organising things for 3 more hours. we cleaned a total of 12 hours!!!!!!!!! not only did we clean we organized under my bed and my closet and my dresser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we also rearanged my funiture!!!! and I did keep it clean for 33 days then I got my contacts and it is still clean!!! and the weird thing is it used to not bug me if there was a pile of clothes in the corner, but now I HAVE to clean up if a sock or two is on the floor! so yeah, those are some of the highlights since I have last posted. thanks for your patience! Margo

Hi!!!

sorry I haven't had time to post lately and right now I don't really have time for a complete entry either but I will attempt to put something up here so........I will write post about New year's later but for now I thought you might want to try one of the things we do in quizzing!!!!

every week we each take a turn in making a test which is basically the chapter typed out and then blanks added. if you want to try and test your knowledge of Luke chapter 13 I have provided the test below, if you want to take it then just copy it and paste it in a word document then print and fill in the blanks or do it on your computer! sorry it is in the NIV version as that is official for quizzing. Have fun!! and leave me a comment telling me if you did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =D

Hello!
Just a really short post to let you all know how my home school group’s election went.
My friend and I did not win, unfortunately. However her brother and sister did and we all had a great time! We lost by one electoral vote, and the race was close the whole way! We had fun making promotional movies with my brothers as security agents, which included bloopers. In one of the bloopers my brothers were sitting on the couch and they had us tied and gagged on the floor, which was hilarious, in another after introducing ourselves my mom turned on M.C. Hammer "Can't touch this" and my brothers just started pulling out dance moves while one lip sang the entire song. It was SUPER funny!! and for the election my friend did my hair and makeup like Sarah Palin and it looked surprisingly realistic, people were doing double takes all day long, I'll see if I can get pictures of the event up here later.

Anyway thank you all for your support and for all the comments!!

-Ty and Margo

Hello everyone!
my friend and I are running for class president and VP for our Homeschool group and my job as VP is to get the word out there so here is our Newsletter, I understand that this in no way affects you but if you would like to read it and comment (hint hint) please do!!

thank you!

Dear Students of S.S.,

We encourage you to vote for us this coming election. As class president and vice president we will do our best to represent Homeschoolers and give them a better image than what was typically preconceived. We plan to accomplish this through two different approaches to the problem:
our first method will be to put co-op first, this includes pushing for beneficial classes that serve a wider range of interests. We will listen to students suggestions and ideas to better serve S.S., by doing this we will not only be putting co-op first but also you first, it’s time for change, we students need a voice.

Our other approach involves action, we are not just idly talking, we’re acting for as blahdy blah said “to accomplish great things we must dream as well as act”. In order to achieve this we must all support and follow through on any decisions made. This includes working together with the parents to assure that everyone, on all levels agree.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and thank you for your support.

We hope to win your vote again on the 4^th.

                        Ty McCain & Margo Palin

okay I know this does not pertain to my story in any way but,

I HAVE RECIVED MY 100TH COMMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would like to thank everyone who has ever commented on this blog, and ....I think that is it, hey if you leave the 125, 150, or 200 comment I will let you know.

ttys

MM1

hello everyone I just thought I'd let you know that I will only be posting school work on this blog...so if you want to read about stuff that is going on in my crazy life go to www.homeschoolblogger.com/Batgirl14 . or go to my profile and click on "Contemplations of a 14-year-old girl..

hope that helps!

Margo

I got this from Lillian, you should really read this! It is for everyone who knows some-one who is in the Marines or Airforce or Navy or the Army; Please Read:

"Last week I was in Atlanta , Georgia attending a conference. While I was in the airport, returning home, I heard several people behind me beginning to clap and cheer. I immediately turned around and witnessed one of the greatest acts of patriotism I have ever seen.

Moving thru the terminal was a group of soldiers in their camos. As they began heading to their gate, everyone (well almost everyone)was abruptly to their feet with their hands waving and cheering.

When I saw the soldiers, probably 30-40 of them, being applauded and cheered for, it hit me. I'm not alone. I'm not the only red-blooded American who still loves this country and supports our troops and their families.

Of course I immediately stopped and began clapping for these young unsung heroes who are putting their lives on the line everyday for us so we can go to school, work and home without fear or reprisal.

Just when I thought I could not be more proud of my country or of our service men and women, a young girl, not more than 6 or 7 years old ran up to one of the male soldiers. He kneeled down and said "hi."

The little girl then asked him if he would give something to her daddy for her.

The young soldier, who didn't look any older than maybe 22 himself, said he would try and what did she want to give to her daddy. Then suddenly the little girl grabbed the neck of this soldier, gave him the
biggest hug she could muster and then kissed him on the cheek.

The mother of the little girl, who said her daughter's name was Courtney, told the young soldier that her husband was a Marine and had been in Iraq for 11 months now. As the mom was explaining how much her daughter Courtney missed her father, the young soldier began to tear up.

When this temporarily single mom was done explaining her situation, all of the soldiers huddled together for a brief second. Then one of the other servicemen pulled out a military-looking walkie-talkie. They started playing with the device and talking back and forth on it.

After about 10-15 seconds of this, the young soldier walked back over to Courtney, bent down and said this to her, "I spoke to your daddy and he told me to give this to you." He then hugged this little girl that he had just met and gave her a kiss on the cheek. He finished by saying "your daddy told me to tell you that he loves you more than anything and he is coming home very soon."

The mom at this point was crying almost uncontrollably and as the young soldier stood to his feet, he saluted Courtney and her mom. I was standing no more than 6 feet away from this entire event.

As the soldiers began to leave, heading towards their gate, people resumed their applause. As I stood there applauding and looked around, there were very few dry eyes, including my own. That young soldier in one last act of selflessness, turned around and blew a kiss to Courtney with a tear rolling down his cheek.

We need to remember everyday all of our soldiers and their families and thank God for them and their sacrifices. At the end of the day, it's good to be an American.

RED FRIDAYS ----- Very soon, you will see a great many people wearing Red every Friday. The reason? Americans who support our troops used to be called the "silent majority". We are no longer silent, and are voicing our love for God, country and home in record breaking numbers.

We are not organized, boisterous or over-bearing.. We get no liberal media coverage on TV, to reflect our message or our opinions. Many Americans, like you, me and all our friends, simply want to recognize
that the vast majority of America supports our troops.

Our idea of showing solidarity and support for our troops with dignity and respect starts this Friday -and continues each and every Friday until the troops all come home, sending a deafening message that.. Every red-blooded American who supports our men and women afar will wear something red.

By word of mouth, press, TV -- let's make the United States on every Friday a sea of red much like a homecoming football game in the bleachers.

If every one of us who loves this country will share this with acquaintances, co-workers, friends, and family. It will not be long before the USA is covered in RED and it will let our troops know the
once "silent" majority is on their side more than ever; certainly more than the media lets on.

The first thing a soldier says when asked "What can we do to make things better for you?" is...We need your support and your prayers.

Let's get the word out and lead with class and dignity, by example; and wear something red every Friday."

sorry about the color I can't get it to change!

    this is Seriously Hard-Core! I got this from DayDreamer. my friends and I might do some of these things! tell me which ones you think I'd do! have fun!

Read Carefully!!

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WOW I can't belive I'm 14!!! that is so bizzare!

and now the birthday song count-down has begun! so far my Mama and Chels and Ama have all sung at the same time to me, and about 2 seconds after that My Papa called and sung at me and he apparently has 10+ versions of the song which-when I declined hereing them all at once-he will sing to me randomly throughout the day. so far he has done 2~ the first being tradtional the second being the "happy birthday, people are dying every day, so happy birthday!" one, he was kidding on that one...I think.  so now I am saved from Gym class! My papa gave me a once-a-year/lifetime pass since it's my

B-day. have to run, my brothers want to head over to a friends' house. hope you all have a GREAT day!!!

Hello!

How are you all today?

My quiz team won 1 out of 3 quizzes on Sunday!

Here is how it went: Quiz 1; we lose by around 100 points.

But that’s fine, ‘cause we only had 3 people on our team!!!!

And the other team had 5 people.

Quiz 2; we win 60-150. I quizzed out on question 8!

We were all really surprised because again it was 3-5

And the team we were against has done very well in the past.

Quiz 3; we lost 100-110! I quizzed out on question 11.

We were tied on question 19 and the opposing team won

Because they jumped on the last question before we could.

All in all we tried our best and didn’t slack in any area!

I think we did a great job, as did the teams we quizzed against!

Well that’s just an up-date on quizzing.

Not much else is going on around here, except that we’re getting

Ready for Valentine’s Day like everyone else. That should be a lot

Of fun!

Thanks for taking time to read this!

Which reminds me I need to work on that tag!

Alrighty it's time for a fun up-date on my rather small social life!

My social life is basically this; Quizzing, Home-school group, and sort of youth group. 

As for Quizzing we are currently working on Philippians 2-4 for our next quiz, and our special quiz last month went great! I loved being on the Upper Division team for a little while, and I actually got to answer one question!!! Of course it was because my pad accidentally went off so I didn't have a clue what the answer was so I took my best shot at it and the answer wasn’t near what I said so it was counted incorrect, but my team still took 3rd place!! And our N.D. got 1st place!! We were sooooo thrilled!

And today my home-school group met for the first time since December!  We had lots of fun; our science class was on Volcanoes, that went very well! And our Art class was on Sweden, so we made cookie stamps, which are traditionally given by the Groom to his Fiancée, so Mrs. D. told all the guys after class to not give away their stamps to any girls right now or their moms may not be very happy. Of course everyone laughed when she said that!!!! For Explorations classes we played Charades! Wow was that fun some of the things we acted out were; a Football coach yelling @ a player (that one was really good!), and space shuttle take-off, and working @ D.Q. . Some that my friend and I had to act out were; Whitewater rafting, planting a garden, and my favorite (or not) Birds building a nest!

so far that's all for now! Thanks for taking the time to read this!!! See you soon!

hey Ya'll!

Welcome to my Blog!

This is where I will be posting my adventures, please make yourself at home and feel free to leave a comment!

I am currrently in the Lower division bible quiz team from my church. The Lower Division is for grades 7-9 and the Upper Division is for grades 10-12. We memorize about 1 chapter of the Bible a week.This year we are memorizing Galatians, Ephesians,Philipians, Colosians and Philemon. Last year we memorized the entire book of Acts.  Bible Quizzing startes in September and ends in May, once every month we travel to a church that supports our program and compete against other  teams from the surrounding area. In May we will have the district tournament which decides who will go to the nationals to represent our district. Right at the moment we are memorizing Ephisians chapters 5-6, and Philipians chapter 1.  Memorizing takes lots of time and commitment,  we're memorizing (on average) 26-38 verses verses a week, that adds up to about 104-152 verses a month. but it's not all hard work, after every quiz we get together to have a potluck with our families, & during practices we'll often burst into fits of laughter over something someone said, or the funny accent the person used to read the verse, or someone's facial exprestion when they said something. being on the quiz team is like haveing a second family, I have a few "big brothers" who always tease me and a few "big sisters" who are always ready to listen to my problems, and now that I'm in my second year I also have a couple of "little sisters" who never cease to make me smile!  I'm sooo thankfull that I was able to join the quiz team, it has deffinately given me the motivation to memorize and the opertunity to meet other kids who have a desire to please the Lord!