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One of the many advantages of living in an area where there are lots of home schoolers is that there are lots of cool home school activities. Another plus is that the activities are generally organized by other more zealous home school moms, and all I have to do is show up with my kids in tow. Last week's Field Day for our county was no exception. Man, I loved field day when I was a kid. A whole day out of the classroom, running through grass, challenging your friends to relay races and balloon tosses. My kids loved it too....until it started thundering and lightening in the afternoon. But our morning was filled with running...
and Frisbee-throwing...
and backwards-walking (or whatever this is called)...
and hula-hooping...
and all sorts of other activities that didn't involve remote controls or video game consoles. They were just as pleased as punch with their flimsy satin ribbons. Annaleigh won 2nd place in that backwards walking, whatever-it's-called event and jump-roping. Harrison won 1st place in the broad jump and 2nd place in the Frisbee-throw and the shoe-toss. Living in this area, outside of Nashville, which is the capital of country and Christian music, you never know who you might see. Well, unless you're like me and hardly know what anyone looks like. I could run smack-dab into...oh, say....Kenny Chesney in the middle of Wal-mart (assuming he even shops there) and I might possibly never know it. I have had a few sitings of over-the-top celebrity sorts. Like last Mother's Day we saw Wynona and Naomi Judd at Ben & Jerry's ice cream. I would have never recognized the normal looking Naomi, but we all recognized Wynona immediately because she has this unnatural looking, super-long red hair. I regularly see Phil Joel, formerly of the Newsboys, but again, he has this outrageous set of long, blond, curly locks. I would recognize Willie Nelson or Dolly Parton in a second, but I've yet to run into either of them. Well, at our homeschool field day, I saw this guy (the one with the long gray hair)...
Anyone know who that is? Anyone? Anyone? It is Guy Penrod, formerly of The Gaither Vocal Band! (Update: Oops...my bad! It has just come to my attention that Guy is STILL with the GVB. Sorry, Guy....I have no idea why I had it in my mind that you left. Shows what I know about Southern Gospel!) Now, some of you may be wondering what a self-proclaimed rocker girl like me is doing recognizing and photographing a former member of a southern gospel group. Well, my grandma loved the Gaither Vocal Band and had a lot of their Homecoming videos, so I was subjected many times to Guy's amazing tenor vocals and recognized him almost instantly. And don't worry....he never knew I was photographing him. I have pretty good zoom on my camera. I'm a stealthy paparazzi! Finally, 4sweetums tagged me with an interesting challenge.... Here are the rules: So, here it goes, my six-word memoir... KIDS, where are my freakin' scissors?!? Actually, the word scissors could be replaced with any random object on any given day....calculator, keys, loose change, my favorite pencil, my house slippers, my lesson plan book, the glue gun (don't ask), the Night at the Museum DVD....you name it, and we've misplaced it. I'm going to fore go the tagging this time because I have company coming later this week, and I really should be cleaning my baseboards. Ta-ta! |
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