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I've been trying to get some crafts created for Christmas so I can take part in the Homemade Christmas thingy....well, several of my family members have had a terrible cold and so things are a bit out of wack here.  I guess that is pretty normal though!  After all, we are just a bunch of demented homeschoolers, you know.  At least that is what "Joy" from that program, "The View" thinks.  I'm not posting any links---if you want to, sure, go listen to it.  But beware, it is very um...a waste of time-ish? 

At any rate, the subject was where were the president-elect's children going to attend school, and homeschooling came up and this gal "Joy" said that homeschoolers were demented!  And that they were scared of other children! I hear that she used to be a P.S. teacher.  Hmmmm...so how does she know?  Does she read HSB?  LOL!

I looked up the definition of demented, and here is what I found:

Main Entry:	demented
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	crazy, insane
Synonyms:	bananas, bemused, crackbrained, daft, delirious, deranged, distracted, distraught, flipped out, foolish, frenzied, fruity, hysterical, idiotic, in the ozone, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, manic, non compos mentis, nutty as a fruitcake, out of one’s gourd, out of one’s tree, psycho, psychopathic, psychotic, schitzy, schizoid, unbalanced, unglued, unhinged*, unsound, whacko
Antonyms:	balanced, rational, reasonable, sane, sensible

I think that I resemble that remark!  And my kids, well I seriously believe they are in the antonym category; balanced, rational, reasonable, sane, sensible...for certain! 

Non compos mentis!

Nancy

Me and my favorite manatee statue at the zoo.  I'm home from tennis and my knee hurts real bad because my friend Devin hit a ball when I wasn't looking and I turned around and slipped.  

I'm bummed tonight.

This is me and Rebekah on my way home.  Her mom and my mom love taking lots of pictures.  I can't wait to see her again.

I'm going to Target now.

I finally got some pictures from when I went to Virginia.  This is me and Rebekah at the lake.  The water was really cold and we didn't want to get it, but we finally did.  In the picture above I am freezing!  But we still had fun.

There is nothing more special to me than homemade gifts and homemade decorations and homemade food...just put "homemade" before ANY word and I would love it!  I am so excited that Emily Rose is having a Homemade Christmas blog theme and anyone can join in.  See the lovely little graphic for it over on my sidebar?  You must go visit this talented young lady and see what she is creating!

I'm going to get busy here and make something I can post for this!  Wish me luck!

Nancy

Thank God It's Friday!  What a glorious day.  We had some snow flurries this morning and it has been colder than a...fill in the blank! 

I promised I would post a copy of the piece I wrote for the Remembrance Press Newsletter (August 2006) about how my story "I Remember" came about.  I hope you enjoy it. 

Nancy

Click here for the free download.

Hi Friends,

I hope you were able to get in on the conference these last two days.  Wow, so much wonderful info was shared and it was a blessing all the way around.  Please pray for Jill as she really needs to take a nap!  LOL!  I am surprised that she has any voice left at all.  Anyway, I thought it went well and it was so neat to meet the Read family and the Brookshires!   (That link will get you to one of them anyhow!)  What a wonderful bunch of blessings and talent.  And not to leave anyone out of course, Heather Wombacher and Shelley Noonan both spoke and shared some wonderful things---I was truly blessed by them.  Jill always blesses me---boy, a lot of blessing going around here I'd say.  I could listen to her talk about writing, making memories, homeschooling, just about anything, for hours.  I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did!

Here are the photos I said I'd post of our wonderful furry blessings we received today!  Meet Harry and Harriette!

                  Aren't those the best names on earth for these two?

Aren't those adorable!?  Me thinks quite a bit so!  (Is that grammatically correct?)  LOL!  At any rate, they are Angoras and my daughter has been wanting to raise some for quite some time now.  We were totally blessed by these from a family we don't even know.  Isn't God good?  My daughter was so surprised!  It's her early birthday present...next week she becomes 17 years old.  Gulp!  Where did the time go?  Well, she plans to spin their fur!  I will post photos as soon as she gets to do some of that, right now we are just getting acquainted. 

Blessings abounding,

Nancy

Here's Josh and I feeding Lorikeets at the zoo Saturday.

We went to his house last night and had a fun time, we watched Kung Fu Panda and had dinner and played some video games.  He played the paino for my mom, it was awesome.  The boy has skills.

We had my sister and brother and my brother's friend with us all day. 

I had tennis tonight, I did terrible.  My friend Silas is coming to our lessons now which is cool.  He's nice.  I have to go finish my school now because I'm a SLACKER.

Here's another picture from Saturday.  We were so excited to see the little jawa we had to get a picture.  This is Liam, Josh, me, Caitlyn and Brett.

Today I'm just doing school and later we'll go to the tennis courts.  Zarek and I practice and Brett and Caitlyn take a lesson.  I better get to work.