Dec. 2, 2008
Verse of the Week
Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths.
Psalm 25:4
Dec. 2, 2008
Giveaway at "A City on a Hill"
While visiting Miss Rachel's blog, I was able to enter her giveaway for a a pair of one of these BEAUTIFUL earrings!!
Dazzling! Gorgeous! Beautiful! Stunning! Charming! Exquisite! Hmmmm...does that about cover it? :)
Hop on over to Rachel's blog to enter!!
~Missie~
Dec. 2, 2008
Homemade Heating Pad
- Fill the foot of a tube sock with rice or make a long tube from extra material .
- Tie the end of the tube sock into a knot,sew alog side and one end , leaving top open to fill with rice, you can also use dried beans :) or oatmeal I like the oatmeal, i use brown sugar and it smells so good..
- Place the rice-filled sock in your microwave oven 30 sec, take out and knead it rel good, place it back in the mocrowave, keep doing this until its as warm as you want it to be (Note BECAREFUL Not to get it too hot.)
- Remove the sock from the microwave and place on the area of your body where needed.
things you will need
Tube sock or material cut into a long tube
Rice
Microwave oven
Dec. 2, 2008
Jacob's Rolls
Here is a couple pictures of the roll's Jacob made, and there was enough dough that he made 2 small mini loafs of bread
Dec. 2, 2008
Thank you
Thank you everyone for your comments this week! I appreciate them. It's also great to "meet" some new people.
Dec. 2, 2008
Chapter 16, Part 2
Wed, July 12th, 2056
Grey Wolf, White Wolf, and Wolf Woman slowly made their way to the back of a white house, or the White House as most called it. They crept along silently, careful to not be spotted by the men with machine guns; one noise at the wrong time could get the President killed.
When they got to the back of the White House, they took out their Wolf ropes and threw them up as high as they could; if they used their rope-guns they’d make noise, so instead they had small anchors on the ends of their rope.
They tested their weight and climbed up quickly and quietly. When they finally got to the right window, they peeked through it to see what was going on inside. They saw what they expected: some dude with a mask pointing a gun at the President. The guy’s back was to the window and he was facing a video recorder, which he’d somehow gotten hooked to all the major TV channels in the area.
They could hear a little through the window, and they heard him say, “…demands aren’t met, I’ll shoot the President. Again I say that I want 5 million dollars in cash within the next hour. Any attempts to stop me, and I’ll shoot…” He went on with this over and over again.
White Wolf had slowly and quietly been using a glasscutter on the window, with Wolf Woman and Grey Wolf holding on to the window with one of their hands, each keeping their other hand on the rope. Once White Wolf was done cutting the glass, Wolf Woman and Grey Wolf aimed and dropped the glass onto a large piece of foam that they’d put down before they climbed.
White Wolf climbed through the gap, followed by Wolf Woman, and then Grey Wolf. The guy threatening the President was obviously an amateur, for he was so busy looking at the camera that he didn’t notice them come in.
Grey Wolf went behind the guy and quickly kicked his legs out from under him. “Oomph,” the masked man landed with a thud. Grey Wolf jumped on him and tried to wrestle the gun away from him while the girls untied the President.
The gun went off, aimed at Grey Wolf’s head, but he easily evaded the bullet. He grabbed for the gun, but it went off again and hit him in the chest.
“Grey Wolf!” Wolf Woman almost screamed.
The guy with the mask turned and pointed the gun at the other two. “As you can see, these fools tried to stop me, and now one of them is down. If you want the President alive, you’ll bring me the money, but the Wolf Pack won’t live because they tried to stop me!”
He fired the gun at White Wolf, who jumped out of the way. Wolf Woman ran towards the guy while he was focused on White Wolf. She almost got there, when the guy turned and shot at her. The bullet hit her in the arm.
White Wolf charged at him and he turned to shoot her, but too late. She knocked him to the floor, but as they were falling the gun went off, and the bullet hit the President in the head.
“Simulation terminated. Simulation terminated…”
The surroundings changed back into the interior of the simulator.
“That mission could have gone better,” Grey Wolf said standing up. “Although I have to say, you and the other techies did a good job with the program, White Wolf. It was all so real, I almost felt really dead!”
“Thanks, Grey Wolf.”
“I completely forgot we were in the simulator,” Wolf Woman added, “Although that’s all the worse for us, since it didn’t go so well…”
Robin walked up to them, “How was the new simulator program? Did it work?”
“Oh yes!” Grey Wolf said, “It was great!”
“But the mission wasn’t,” Wolf Woman said, “We failed, if this had been real, the President would be dead now.”
“And so would I!” Grey Wolf exclaimed.
“Well, that’s what the simulator is for,” Robin said, “So you can practice and learn.”
“Exactly!” White Wolf said, “And it all worked perfectly! The team did a really good job!”
“Yep,” Grey Wolf said, “Now let’s go get something to eat, I’m starving!”
“You ate just before we went in!” Wolf Woman exclaimed, “And we were in there for how long?” she asked Robin.
“About 10 minutes.”
“Really?” Grey Wolf asked, “It seemed like we were there for about an hour!”
“I know,” White Wolf said, “That’s one of the things we programmed this to do; in a simulation, time goes by about 6 times faster. So our hour in there equals ten minutes out here.”
“Sweetness!” Wolf Woman smiled.
“Yeah, now let’s get to the kitchen!”
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Raven sat straight up in bed, breathing heavily. Another dream. This was the fourth time in the last week that she dreamed about robbing a bank. Just another thing to show that I’m truly evil inside. All I ever dream about is doing stuff that’s against the law; I was a fool to think that there could be any good in me!
I can’t stay here; this place is for people who are truly good deep inside, not like me. All I have deep inside of me is blackness. Raven stood up and started to walk over to her dresser, to get some of her stuff.
But then she stopped and a voice came into her mind, “No Raven, I’ve told you that I will help you to achieve what you want. I led you here to Earth to accomplish this. You just need to keep trying and stay here with the Titans.”
“But you’ve told me that for such a long time now, and nothing is getting better, in fact it’s getting worse!”
“You doubt me?”
“I don’t know; I don’t know anything anymore.” And with that, Raven closed off her mind. She climbed back into bed and tried to go back to sleep, but she couldn’t. He was keeping her from sleep.
A tear rolled down her cheek, Stop that, Raven! She told herself, Emotion is weakness. But she couldn’t stop it, any more than she could stop the dreams.
~Wolf Woman
Dec. 2, 2008
Roll Recipe
Hi, Tonight Jacob and I will be making rolls for the first time, We usually make homemade bread but wanted to do something different, a friend had rolls on her blog and I got to thinking ok we have never tried making dinner rolls.
My friend sent me a link to a recipe and we are using it except instead of white flour we are using wheat.
Its called
Mom's Yeast Roll Recipe:
INGREDIENTS
* 2 cups hot water
* 1/2 cup margarine
* 1/3 cup white sugar
* 2 teaspoons salt
* 1/2 cup cold water
* 2 (.25 ounce) packages active dry yeast
* 5 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
* 2 eggs
DIRECTIONS
1. Melt margarine in hot water. Add sugar and salt and stir. Add cold water and yeast. Stir to dissolve yeast.
2. Add 3 cups flour and mix. Add eggs and 2 1/2 - 3 cups more flour. Mix, cover and let rise until dough doubles in size.
3. Punch down and let rise 30 more minutes or until doubles.
4. Make walnut size balls of dough. Place about 2 inches apart in well-buttered 9 x 13 inch pan. Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven for 30-45 minutes. Brush top of rolls with margarine while hot.
(Allrecipes.com)
12/2/2008
Baby Cinderella Gown
~ Baby Cinderella Gown ~
This little princess wanted to be Cinderella, so we made her a little Cinderella Ballgown. Complete with shiny blue fabric and a sparkly fabric overlay and a signature Cinderella sidepuff skirt.
The princess below is seen wearing a white blouse under her gown because it was rather cold....
Interstested in getting a little princess gown? I can make any of the Disney Princess’s gowns…in little girls sizes. Please contact me for details... Thank you for reading!
Coming Soon!
– Little Gisselle, Little Snow White, Baby Tinkerbelle and Little Sleeping Beauty.
Dec. 2, 2008
Thanksgiving day, ah what a treat! To eat and eat and eat and....eat...
That above is a goofy poem from Adventures in Odyssey! Profound, I know.
Well, now I have some pictures, but not all. I have pre-dinner pictures and a few more of my drawings:)(hehe)
This is Josh, peeling potatoes
Mom and Caleb plucking the turkey (every year it always has a few feathers left)
our mashed potatoes, heh, with lots of butter and cheese...oh my
Guess what I am reading in school now:)
(The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth)
Merry Christmas~
onedaymore
Dec. 2, 2008
A little bit of this, a little bit of that, and the giveaway!
The children are slowly recovering from their colds. They're still coughing, but we've returned to our public lives. We've actually ALL been at church for two weeks now, and today we'll attend our homeschool group for the first time in 2 months. We missed 3 meetings (we have 2 per month).
We're studying Roxaboxen this week, using Five In A Row, volume 4. 13 yo A pointed out to me yesterday that she's too old for it. So I sent her to the encyclopedia to research city government and dig in further. She gladly went.
This is just a filler, though. We'll be starting Further Up & Further In, a unit study based on the Chronicles of Narnia as soon as it arrives, hopefully by next week. We'll be reviewing it, and are looking forward to using the study. The review is due in February, so we'll be using it that long, at least. Probably longer. This is a unit study we had planned to use in the past, but didn't. We already own several copies of the book, and I just ordered the Companion to Narnia to supplement our study. It's designed for the junior high age. We'll try to use it with all the children, but if we need to, we can pull the younger children back to Five In A Row.
We started reading Tabitha's Travels for our Advent devotions Sunday night. This is our second time reading through the trilogy, our sixth year using the books for Advent. We enjoy the books as a family, and keep hoping the author will get his Easter study (Mystery of the Temple Court) published, as well. I was just reading about it at his website: http://www.jothamsjourney.com . It sounds like it will be wonderful.
Besides our usual Christmas preparations, I have 7 reviews still due in December. You can be watching for those: Time 4 Learning website, Aleks website, Puppetools website, Motherboard Press e-book, All About Spelling, Peterson's Directed Handwriting, and Core Learning Crayola Art Studio.
We're still trying to figure out what our schedule of family gatherings will be this year, and finishing up our Christmas shopping. The children are working on their artwork for our Family Scrapbook Calendar gifts, and we're preparing to start working on Christmas cards. I guess we'll watch lots of Christmas movies as we work on the Christmas card and calendar projects. I know we may be unusual, but we usually send over 100 Christmas cards each year to our extended family, friends, co-workers, and church family.
We set up our Christmas tree and decorations this past weekend. It was a nice way to spend our Saturday, and we enjoyed the dusting of snow we received several times this weekend. A wonderful close to a good Thanksgiving. We hosted my family here for Thanksgiving. We were blessed to enjoy the time with my parents, all 3 of my sisters, my nephew, and my soon-to-be Brother-In-Law. It was especially cherished after our difficult October and early November, with the loss of Steve's Dad.We're looking forward to our Christmas celebrations with family, as well.
Now I need to finish getting ready for our homeschool group, and doing our Five In A Row lesson with the kids. I hope everyone else had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and are enjoying their Christmas preparations, as well.
Psst! Don't forget to enter the e-book giveaway. Only TWO entries so far. Tomorrow is the last day to enter. I'll announce a winner on Thursday Dec. 4.
Trusting in Him,
April
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