A Movie Worth Seeing

I heard a Family Life Today broadcast yesterday while in the van. It was about a new movie coming out called "Bella". The broadcast has me hooked...I want to see this movie. If you are able, and it's opening in your city this weekend--GO! and show your support for good clean movies.

Chuck Swindoll

Our kids like to listen to the radio show, Paws and Tales. This Bible-based show is part of Chuck Swindoll's ministry. One can find articles, encouragement, and lots more on his website.

Cool Math Site

Did I just say "cool" and "math" in the same title?? Yes, I believe I did! I have to admit when I was in school, I did NOT understand math. I struggled something awful with it. Now as I homeschool, I'm learning things for the first time...and understanding them. Funny how that works.

Last night Marissa and I found a cool math website with games, definitions, examples, etc. on it. We had so much fun navigating the different areas and playing some of the games. Some require strategy like "connect 4" others require skill like "invaders".

Now, the name of the site we aren't quite sure about--Maths is fun. What is "maths"--the plural of "math"? I always thought math was like the word "deer", the plural also being "deer".

Anyway, it is a neat website! Check it out!

And I'd like to dedicate this entry to our good friend, Ben. He is a highschool math teacher--extraordinarily brilliant in his field. He adapted this quote:

Math is cool.
There is nothing cooler.
If cool were a kingdom,
Math would be the ruler.

Fall Organizational Challenge

I just might be a sucker for punishment...or a really weird person who likes to purge the rooms and closets of her house. I suppose you'll have to determine which one.

I'm thinking about joining the Fall Organizational Challenge sponsored by Laura at Organizing Junkie. You can find the details on her blog. It is easy to be a part of it...the hard part is the actual cleaning. I may choose a small space this time instead of the large space I chose last time. :)

So, stay tuned, join the challenge with me and come November 1st....everything MUST go! (in that one small space, that is).

Hundred Acre Wood Personality Test

Yes, this is another personality test. This one is cute and fun. I've always liked classic Pooh--ever since I was little. So, walk on over to the Hundred Acre Wood and find out who you are most like. If you take it, let me know in the comments. Thanks Laura at I'm an Organizing Junkie for the link.


Take the 100 Acre Personality Quiz!

The Farm Girls learn Monoprinting

So, we Farm Girls aren't just learning how to plant and harvest. Tonight we learned monoprinting. One of the new ladies to our group is an artist and she taught us this style of painting/printing. I looked up some links so you could get a idea what it is...unless you already know in which case the rest of this entry may be of no use to you.

This article is cleverly called "How to Make Monoprints".
Kinderart offers this lesson activity with step by step instructions for monoprinting.

The internet, of course, offers more information that I could ever need or digest about this subject, so let's move on to a short explanation of how we did ours.

We used acrylic paints and the friend who taught us brought the rollers. (They probably have a far more technical name, but the word "rollers" gives us visual learners a good mental picture.) She also gave each of us a piece of cardboard with a gallon sized ziploc bag around it. This is what we used to squirt our paint on and roll it around. Very easy. After the paint was rolled around, we made some sort of drawing. We used the eraser end of a pencil, q-tips and cotton balls to make my pictures. Now the picture is drawn (etched) in the paint, we placed a piece of paper over the drawing and pressed it down (without sliding it around). Then we lifted it up and presto--a picture! Here is one of my monoprints.


It was fun and easy (although somewhat messy). I'm going to make cards out of some of the prints.

Books I'm Reading

To Fly Again: Surviving the Tailspins of Life by Gracia Burnham with Dean Merrill
What a Husband Needs from His Wife: physically, emotionally and spiritually by Melanie Chitwood
Discipline: The Glad Surrender by Elisabeth Elliot
I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah by Ravi Zacharias

I borrowed these from the library and I'm excited about starting to read them. I read the introduction to the book by Ravi Zacharias. This is part of the intro...

"it may not be an overstatement to say that a person makes heaven or hell on earth depending on the one he or she marries. Any married person will agree, with a groan or a smile. Marriage is an extraordinary relationship. It is a commitment from which you dare not take a vacation. It demands nurture and care, and like a tender shoot, the better the care, the better the blossom. But to be sure, it is hard work."

What are you reading?