A little bit of everything http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:45:00 -0600 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:45:00 -0600 I have a small business that is closing down. I don't recall ever making a profit on it and I've been trying to make it work since 2005. It's time to call it a day, but my big problem is that I still have over 1,000 sets to sell. I'll be shutting the "doors" on December 31st. What I need (from anyone who's willing) is to let your readers know that I have an exceptional inventory sale starting today. Customers can get an additional 10% off their order with each extra set—valid up to 60%--e.g. 10 sets at regular cost $89.50, sale cost $35.70. Feel free to take whatever you want from the website to copy it as info. www.eagermind.com An even bigger request is that you pray. God is good all the time, and I know he can restore all the money we've put into this. If he would get someone to buy my domain name for a few thousand we'd get out of the remaining debt, or via any other creative way he comes up with. Because DH is getting laid off at the end of January, it would make things much easier on us to not have those monthly payments. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/620807/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:45:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/620807/ Having been so encouraged by a lady's knee getting healed at Walmart, I was ready for more signals to pray. About 3 weeks ago our family was checking out a new glassworks studio near our church (because a co-worker of DH owns it), and his wife was limping and had a knee brace on. I felt that "go ahead" thing so I started chatting with her and asked her about her leg. She said that the cartilage was all messed up and that the doctor wanted to do surgery on it the next day. I asked her if my DD and I could pray for her as we had had some success when praying for knees, and she said, "Sure, why not." As we prayed something non-religious and quick, her DH was looking over at us as if we were completely off our rocker...  I asked her to try it. She felt heat going through it (alway a great sign something is happening) and she bent her knee a few times, but said that she had no idea if it was healed as it only hurt badly at night after rest. We chatted some more about the glassworks, and then left. Today, DH said, "You know that guy's wife you prayed for? I talked to him today. Her knee pain went away the day after you two prayed and she's been fine ever since!" This just makes me more and more convinced that this is a type of "Kingdom living" that Christians are supposed to be ready for at any time. We have the Holy Spirit in us, so all we have to do is be willing to open the gates from time to time and let him out! The scary part is that it's not organized, it's just a part of daily life and you never know what God is going to ask you to pray for next, but on the plus side, that's what makes life with God such an adventure . :D P.S. Seeing as DD and I seem to be in the "knee zone" right now, please feel free to ask for some over the phone prayer.  This is FUN!!!! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/359802/ Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:52:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/359802/ Hi there! My name is Moses, of the “leading the Israelites across the Jordan” fame. I’m here to speak with you today about the benefits of going through your very own wilderness experience. It’s all about the muscle groups. Yes, you heard me! If you look at the back of your Bible and check out the map section, you’ll see why. One word… MOUNTAINS. Back in the days when I was on God’s green earth, Yahweh had this habit of making me walk up to the top of mountains to get the good stuff. Yes, He met me in the tent most of the time, but when it came to stuff like getting the Ten Commandments and letting me hear His whisper, He had me walk up, and up, and up…you get the picture. Results are that I’m in heaven now with the most magnificent thigh and calf muscles ever seen on an eternal body. My biceps aren’t all that bad looking either – I had to lean so hard on my stick when the slope of the mountain got extra steep, I could almost hear my biceps brachii popping. Sinai, Nebo, Horeb, Hor, Paran, Shepher, Herman....they’re all in the history books; every one of them holds a sweet memory for me, even though I thought I would die with the Lord God Jehovah being so close…I’m sure you understand.. So here’s my advice to you young whippersnappers: if you want to enter heaven in GLORY and have the angels stand about looking on in awe and wonder, check out the whole mountain thing yourself. It does take a little longer and strains the backs of your legs like nothing else on earth, but the view from the top and the Lord God Himself at your side is more than worth it. So hike up those pant legs, get your boots on, and get going. He’s waiting for you. (By the way, you’re going to get a whole lot more than big muscles out of the experience. Trust me on this one.) http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/321379/ Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:49:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/321379/ UCLA Department of Psychiatry Study   A study conducted by UCLA's Department of Psychiatry has revealed that the kind of face a woman finds attractive on a man can differ depending on where she is in her menstrual cycle.   For example: If she is ovulating, she is attracted to men with rugged and masculine features. If she is menstruating or menopausal, she tends to be more attracted to a man with a spear lodged in his chest and tape over his mouth while he is on fire.   No further studies are planned. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/222701/ Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:18:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/222701/ At church on Sunday, my DD and I were at the back, worshiping, and suddenly I 'knew' that it was time for her to get baptized. (She's 14, and we wanted her to wait until she would remember it.) I turned to her and said,     "Did God just say anything to you about anything in particular?" She looked at me, puzzled, but I didn't want to say anymore, as then it wouldn't have been God planned. Well tonight, she said to me,       "When am I going to get baptized?" I gave her a huge smile, and then we discovered that right at the same moment that God had told me, He had told her too, but she hadn't understood at the time that it was the same thing I was talking about!! So now we know for sure that next month is God's perfect time for her to get baptized before the church It's so exciting to be right in the center of God's plan! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/217927/ Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:20:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/217927/ A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon. As she laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird's chest. After a moment or two, the vet shook his head sadly and said,      "I' m so sorry, your duck, Cuddles, has passed away."   The distressed owner wailed,      "Are you sure"?      "Yes, I am sure. The duck is dead," he replied.      "How can you be so sure"? she protested. "I mean, you haven't done any testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or something."   The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room, and returned a few moments later with a black Labrador Retriever. As the duck's owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom. He then looked at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head. The vet patted the dog and took it out, and returned a few moments later with a cat.   The cat jumped up on the table and also sniffed delicately at the bird from head to foot. The cat sat back on its haunches, shook its head, meowed softly and strolled out of the room. The vet looked at the woman and said,   "I'm sorry, but as I said, this is most definitely, 100 percent certifiably, a dead duck." Then the vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill, which he handed to the woman. The duck's owner, still in shock, took the bill.      "$150!" she cried. "$150 just to tell me my duck is dead"?   The vet shrugged.      "I'm sorry. If you'd taken my word for it, the bill would have been $20, but with the lab report and the cat scan, it's now $150." http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/197028/ Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:15:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/197028/ I will be homeschooling two of my neighbor's kids this year. Their dad is terribly disappointed with the level of eductaion his kids were getting in public school, and so I offered to teach them with my two. I think this will benefit my son, as he loves competition, and the other boy is in the same grade as he is.   I have chosen to do Tapestry of Grace with all of them, and in order to get into school a little quicker, I handed out some books to read in advance. I gave Oliver Twist to the 8th grader, and the lexicon value was too high for her to understand even one page. I found this site http://www.lexile.com and checked out the lexicon value - it is at a 10.6 grade level. I'm sad for her that she has been told that she is wonderful at English when this is so hard for her to read, but hopefully over the next few years she will find it easier to read big words.   Because of this problem, I have looked up the other books on the lit. list for the year, and have decided to leave the higher level books until the last few weeks. In the meantime, I will add in a vocab. workbook to try and help them get up to par with my two.   To do your own lexicon search, click on the link, and you will see a link to the database. While it is not inexhaustible, it did list most of the books on my list. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/181661/ Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:39:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/181661/ "They" say that messy people aren't disorganized at all ... they say that if you ask one of them, they will know exactly where that paper is, or that coupon*. The problem is, no one else does.   Messies are known to be frequently frazzled, especially when someone tries to be helpful and "clears up a little". If you ever want to remain friends DO NOT DO THAT!!!! You see, then she won't know where everything is any more.   Messy people are, believe it or not, control freaks. Everything has to be done their way, and they are always getting around to it. Suggestions on how to clear up are simply not welcome, as we have the heavenly (oops, did I say we?? ) vision of perfection in our heads, and the reason why we have not gotten around to making our desk that clean is that the time it will take to get to that state of perfection is never available.   Until then, we will remain blissfully happy in our pigpen.   *BTW, if you have any need for an expired coupon for Firestone, let me know; it's on the mid-left near the back under that book on freelance writing... http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/161363/ Tue, 4 Jul 2006 01:12:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/161363/ Like most of you, I have spent the last month or so reviewing curricula ad nauseam, poring over brochures that manage to litter every shelf in my house, and racing through myriads of internet pages comparing prices. I even went so far this year as to list all the items I wanted in Excel - to tally the cost as I ordered ( I love spending money).   Just when I thought I had found a suitable book for either kid, I found something else that looked better. I was playing on the never-ending merry-go-round that did not even start out in a happy state, and was not getting any merrier.   Once I spied the Tapestry of Grace threads on the A Home for Homeschoolers forums, I checked out the site. www.tapestryofgrace.com (BTW, the TOG site is a horrible thing to navigate your way through, sort of like walking through the Hampton Court maze without a map, but a redesign is in the works)   I borrowed a core 3 and unit 1 folder from a friend who owns a homeschool library to see if I could make any sense out of the program, and after spending at least 200,000,000 unbillable hours on the darn thing, I THINK I understand it all now….   I’ve printed off so many pages for the first few weeks of school that my printer will no longer print anything that requires black ink. The online manual says that the printer head is worn out – forget the printer, what about ME?????   To those of you sane mothers who love all things homeschool, I salute you. You would have given up on this long ago. The only reason I am still going with this is because I already know I am insane. My children have told me this many times, so I know it’s true. I think my husband tried to tell me once but I gave him “the look” before he got the words out. He did say the other day,   “And the reason you are going with this curriculum is because…” so I gave him “the look again”, and he went back to his computer.   If any of you were reading this in the hopes that you would learn something helpful about Tapestry of Grace, THINK AGAIN!!!, but maybe next week, when my hormones settle down, I will write something coherent and sweet.   Hasta le vista! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/160841/ Sun, 2 Jul 2006 23:54:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/160841/ I got some great prices on art supplies at www.misterart.com -to go with Artistic Pursuits - and they had everything I was looking for there, whereas with the other 6 or so sites I went to they didn't have certain items.I found Apologia books and CDs at www.finders-keepers.net, the Chemistry was $55 and the CD was $12 and the shipping was free.I found Quarter Mile Math levels 2&3 bundle for $45 at www.swexpress.com when it is normally $65 on all the other sites I saw. Their shipping was super fast too.I ordered the basic books I'd need for Tapestry Of Grace from www.Amazon.com, and they have a deal right now where, if you sign up to be a prime member (free) you get free 2 day shipping. You just need to remember to cancel your membership within 3 months. It shows up asking you if you want it when you review your shopping cart.www.rocksolidinc.com have all of their Saxon stuff on sale right now - huge price cut I believe - I wouldn't know.   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/156321/ Sat, 24 Jun 2006 14:11:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/princessgrace/156321/