Life with the Pryor family. Homeschool, home business, home life in general, all focused on following Jesus in everything we do. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:26:00 -0500 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:26:00 -0500 my daughter, jessie, just recently was able to enjoy the privilege of a blog, and so now i finally have someone else i know on here to play with! she'll have lots more friends than i will, but that's ok. if you'd like to check out her blog it is http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/jessielovessoccer guess i'll be back to start posting once again... http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/518767/ Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:26:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/518767/ i'm not sure anyone is getting a so-called "christmas picture". oh, we took the picture. it's on the computer. we have just failed to print them. i also made out all the envelopes for your christmas cards, but they never got filled out or sent. they are ready for next year, though. and it's maybe not so much a bad thing since now we can get a shot with the new baby and then it will be a complete family. there. i kinda feel a little less guilty. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/330571/ Fri, 18 May 2007 22:27:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/330571/ those of you waiting for your christmas card and family picture, i'll be sending them out soon... http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/276878/ Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:30:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/276878/ This little gem comes from an Elisabeth Elliot devo that I get each morningWhat Can I Do For God?Most of us would like to do something special in life, something to distinguish us. We suppose that we desire it for God's sake, but more likely we are discontent with ordinary life and crave special privileges. When Israel asked if they should offer some spectacular sacrifice--thousands of rams, ten thousand "rivers of oil," a firstborn child--the answer was, "He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God" (Mi 6:8 RSV).There is nothing conspicuous about those requirements. It is not a "special" service for which one would be likely to be decorated or even particularly remembered. But it is worth more to God than any sacrifice. Lord, deliver me from the delusion of imagining that my desire is to serve You, when my real desire is the distinction of serving in some way which others admire.If you would like to check out more writings of EE or sign up for her daily devotional, click HERE http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/172902/ Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:43:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/172902/ I'm not sure how it happens, but whenever one of my kids is gone for a few days, they always seem to come back looking like they've grown up.  such was the case with emily when she returned from CIY tonight.  this strange phenomenon makes me almost gasp aloud and i find myself staring and trying to pick out what exactly the differences are.  19 years of mothering 5 kids and i still can't figure it out.i find myself a little threatened by this, mostly because it's an occurance that has gone on without either my approval or my involvement.  silly, i know.  but the fact remains that i am feeling the first pangs of letting go of my daughter (which is entirely different than that of the boys) and i'm just not quite sure what to make of it.  it is more like a part of myself with my girls than it was with the boys, and i am praying that i don't do something stupid like try to ride out my own final teen years through theirs.  those of you who are close to me and know me...please don't let me do that, 'k?  nevertheless, it has been a really great experience overall, but it does leave me in an odd place that i've not been to for awhile... http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/170910/ Sat, 22 Jul 2006 00:42:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/170910/ I'm working on getting my homeschoolblogger site up-to-date, now that i have firefox installed again.  it was giving me fits before, but i never took much time to figure out why, so after a few month's absence, i've decided to give it another go.  if all goes well, then i will work on switching my girls' xanga sites over to hsb so they can enjoy a larger margin of safety.  the kicker is going to be in convincing their xanga buddies to switch as well, so they can all have their little teen homeschool community over here instead.  some fun things i found today that might be useful for you:In the Super Shopper magazine today, there was a coupon for a FREE dozen ears of fresh corn from Shaw Farms when you buy $15.00 or more of their stuff.  I'm thinking peaches, so anyone who would like to go in on some with me, let me know.  Oh, the coupon is good until 8/31.I've been listening to Cindy Rushton's workshop entitled High School! Yes! It CAN BE Easy.  She has the most fun, up-beat southern accent ever, and her stuff is amazingly inspiring.  Check out her blog (she's a Homeschoolblogger, too!)One book that I'm hoping to go through with each of my girls is Beautiful Girlhood, by Karen Andreola (actually, it was revised by her).  I found and bought (online for cheap of course!), the companion guide to go with it.  It's like a journal that your daughter can use as she goes through the book, writing thoughts on different questions and topics and accompanying scriptures.  Faith, Jess, and I played boggle this afternoon.  Did you know that the word "snot" is actually in the dictionary?  Amazing...Love to All!!!P.S.  if you want off the mailing list, just let me know.  no problem at all!! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/169064/ Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:05:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/169064/ ok, so mark (aslan) puts my blog site on his email as an example for setting up your shout out and i panicked, wondering how many people might click on that hyperlink for fun, or even just by accident, and find my pathetic, outdated blog (if you can even call it that). i feel like you do when you find someone pulling into your driveway and it happens to be the one day that you decide to "take off' and hang out in your pjs a little longer! to top it off, my imac won't run firefox fro some reason, so i had to dump it and am now back to no wysiwyg interface and no recall of tags, so it's just one boring font, with word upon word on meaningless drivel... well, for those of you, friends and family, who happen to read this, my apologies for a disappointing start to my blog. eventually i will get things moving again, even if the interface is dull and uninteresting. as to my last entry about Dave, I'll give you a brief update: Dave and Becky now live in an apartment in Mariemont which happens to be near another friend-couple of theirs, so there is some convenience for them to actually have a social life. Dave works downtown at Consumer Credit Counseling, a great non-profit company that helps people work out a budge to pay off their debt, and Becky works parttime for the Hamilton County Public Library at a branch on the west side ( i always forget which one). Dave's internship in worship for Student Ministries at the Vineyard in Tri-County is still going well (I think it runs until around Feb.). We hope to get together with them soon--time flies and we all are so busy that we actually have to put it on the calendar, our get-togethers, or they just won't happen! TODAY: some school work in the morning, Jon has the last bit of his in-car driving school time, then he will catch a ride to work with Didi Bacon, a friend of ours who is having lunch with Hank out here today (Bless you, sir!) and I will take the girls to pick up one of their friends (Maddie Bacon--hmmm... another Bacon!) and head out to do some Homeschool Bowling--much more fun than non-homeschool bowling! Afterward, it's a drop off for the older girls to laser-tag and a birthday party for Julie Otten, drop off Maddie back to her house, then decide how to spend the next 2 hours before Jon gets picked up from work at 6:30 (don't you just love all the details?). the evening is up for grabs, if you can believe it. well, atleast until midnight when i'll pick up the girls from the party. I love my life. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/36145/ Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:37:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/36145/ Today was the official last day of claiming David as a deduction.  Bummer.     Other than that, it was a memorable day in that, all 7 of us were in the house long enough to have a meal together.  I should've taken pictures...darn, I always forget. I'm becoming adverse to blogging recently, only because I have not yet been able to do all the cool things that the PC users can do (Aslan, are you reading this??)         Like, I can't leave you links to really cool sites such as http://www.davidandlaurie.com.  Well, I can tell you about them, but I can't have it do the hyperlink thing so you don't have to cut and paste.  Maybe someday us Mac folk will get the respect we deserve.  In the meantime, check out the site mentioned above for a really neat FREE homeschool planner for you download. If I could paste an image here it would be of a portrait that child artist/prodigy Akiane did of Jesus when she was only 8 years old.  Read about it at http://www.artakiane.com/akiane_painting.htm.  You can also read an interview with Akiane in The Old Schoolhouse Magazine.  Lovely. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/12083/ Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:34:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/12083/ So while everyone else is off on a different adventure, I sit here trying to figure what this tagging means. Guess I'll just cut and paste these questions I was given and give it a whirl: Q:What is your absolute favorite book? A:. Off the top of my head, Little Women.  I used to read it once a year, now I get it in every 2 or 3 years. Q:What is your favorite book to have read to you? A: I don't know that I've ever had a book read to me, as an adult. Q:Have you ever started writing a book and not finished? A:No. But I've started thinking of writing a book and not finished the thought--does that count? Q:If so, what was it about? A: A master list of things to do before you die.  That was an old idea.  I can't remember my more recent one... Q:Today, if you were to write a book (assuming you had the time), what would it be about? (If you've already written a book, what do you dream of writing about one day?) A: That's easy.  Something simple.  And profound.  I'm not really sure, actually. ...and that's how I get my blog jumpstarted again.  http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/11591/ Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:05:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/11591/  I know the competition out there is fierce, but I have to weigh in on this one: (Letterman style) 10. his cute bald spot on the top of his head   9. the way he says "man", as in "hey, man, what's up?"   8. how he paces when he's in an intense phone conversation   7. his love for good, hot coffee   6. the inside jokes he has with our 3 girls   5. his laugh   4. the best blue eyes ever   3. he knows more than me   2. he loves me   1. he loves Jesus more than me http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/2879/ Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:14:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Sandy/2879/