Life, including homeschooling
Is this a picture of summer or what? And despite the extremely impish expression, he did NOT get me!!! The kids filled up a cooler with water balloons, with the idea that there would be a grand water balloon fight with all the cousins. Well, that never exactly materialized, but they did have a blast throwing them at each other on the trampoline!!! I’m not sure if that is covered in the safety manual . . .
First Drive
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And he’s off! His favorite thing to do is gun it, brake, throw it in reverse, brake, gun it, brake, etc. etc. etc. ad nauseum. We’ll be buying new tires for this thing reeeeeeal soon!
And I’ve hardly blogged anything! Well, I just figured out this coolio feature on Flickr, so I’m blogging a few pictures.
A friend from church has a son a year older than Duncan who has lost the training wheels on his bike, so is riding it all the time and neglecting his car. They decided Duncan was just the guy to keep it from getting too lonely. He couldn’t be happier!
This is a test post from 
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Disclaimer: I was given a copy of Transformers Aniimated: Transform & Roll Out by Click Communications for the purpose of review.
Growing up on the 80’s, even as a girl, the Transformers cartoon was a part of life. Waaaay back when cartoons were only on Saturday morning, you took what you could get. I was an odd girl, I actually enjoyed the Transformers story, as much as I can remember of it, and was excited in a totally geeky way when the live-action movie came out. Like it’s live-action counterpart, the new Transformers animated series does not disappoint. The storyline doesn’t relate at all to the previous stories. The Autobots have defeated the Decepticons and are tootling around space, bored out of their gourds on trash detail. One trash bot in particular, Optimus Prime, is fascinated by old vids of the Decepticon Wars, while the others can’t see why he’d be interested in that stuffy old history stuff. While working on a desolate moon out in the middle of nowhere, the trash detail happens upon a small box. An older war veteran recognizes the All Spark right away, and they try to check back in to headquarters about the same time as the Decepticons show up. No one back home believes that Megatron is still alive, so the Autobots are on their own! With mutiny from his own team and under attack by the Autobots, Megatron opens a portal just as his ship blows up. Optimus Prime follows close behind, and they are all sucked through into the atmosphere of a little green planet called Earth. Fast forward 20 years, Detroit is the center of manufacturing — but robots now instead of cars. There are some funny moments as the ‘bots try to talk to our inanimate machines, not realizing that the ‘pets’ are the sentient species of the planet. Anyway, I guess that’s enough spoilers for now. It’s quick-moving, with some development of the different characters. It’s typical Japanese animation, but fun nonetheless. I was sucked right into the first episode and left wanting for more story. Our cable company has had some of the episodes On Demand, but not enough and not in order. I can’t wait to buy more — for Duncan, of course. He’s watched this one so much, I’ve nearly got it memorized! I probably wouldn’t buy this episode as a single DVD, but I would buy it in a set of the entire season.
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Yes, I blogged this at work.
That summer hasn’t even started yet!!!
Edited to add: How ironic is it that I got comment spam on a Holy Grail post?
What does this say about me? This quote came up today on my Facebook Monty Python and the Holy Grail quotes and reminded me how much I love it.
Cleric: And the Lord spake, saying, ‘First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.’
That, and “Big, sharp, pointy teeth”. That actually gets used around here quite often.
Is it Mother’s or Mothers’? Anyway, happy day to all you moms out there! Not too much going on at the So-Called household. The kids and Jim got gifts and gave them to me yesterday since he had to work this afternoon. I got a very pretty silver locket inscribed with “Mom” and a rose on it that the girls picked out and an iTunes gift card. They also went to our favorite Chinese buffet and picked up sushi for lunch yesterday (yeah sushi at the Chinese place, go figure!). YUMMY! I was a little down today because we didn’t do anything special, but then I got to thinking. I’d rather have my sweet kids and hubby every day than have them go all-out only one day per year. Any given day Moira will offer to make me a glass orf Dr. Pepper or a bowl of popcorn. Jim is great at bringing home little random gifts — some chocolate, a little bouquet of flowers from the grocery store, some promotional item they had a the station he knew I’d like. Taeryn is AWESOME at making cards and always seems to give me one when I’m feeling particularly down or under appreciated. And Duncan is the best for sudden “run-hugs” and power-kisses. Who needs Mother’s Day when you’ve got an awesome family 24/7/365? It really rocks!!!
On my right-hand sidebar, under the ads, you’ll see a new button. RME has been around a little while, so I’m getting in on the tail-end of the Revolution, but i f you sign up within the next five days you’ll get $25, no strings attached, and I’ll get $10. Not a bad deal, eh? I got my $25 and have already spent it on cloth diapers, cute ones too, so it is the real McCoy. RME is setting itself up as THE Paypal alternative, and I’ve found a few places that take it, although they are mostly WAHM sites. Check around and see what you can find!
How can sitting at a desk all day make me so exhausted? Jim’s doing most of the housework, chasing the kids, making dinner; I’m just trying to keep up on the laundry. Weird!
Sunday, April 27, my oldest child Moira was baptized into Christ!!! Jim and I got to baptize her. Of course we didn’t get pictures since we were in the baptistry with her, but hopefully the video came out. Jim has to digitize it, then I’ll put it on YouTube for friends and family. I couldn’t be more happy!!!
Taeryn (Pink Pixie) and I got new haircuts 2 weeks ago. She had 9.5 inches to donate this time. I think it was only a year ago she donated it last time!
They’re phone pictures, so not the best quality, but you get the idea!
OK, I really should go to bed, but want to keep posting even though I’m crazy busy! New since last we met (or last I blogged):
I’ll post more details on the above topics and hopefully more! Miss you all, have been in a bit of a funk lately. I think I’m wading out of it — this job is keeping me on my toes. Now, off to bed so I’m not a grump tomorrow morning!!!
Well, once again, I have neglected this little blog. Lots of new things are happening at the So-Called household, and I am going to tell you all about them. I just found Scribefire, a blogging extension for Firefox, and it is super-easy to use! Hopefully, this will help me to blog a little more often, lol! More later!!!
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Hello! I'm a mom to 4 great kids, wife to an awesome man, secretary to some incredible ministers. Homeschooling, housewife, working mom, I bring home the bacon and teach the kids to cook it!!! Couldn't do any of it without God and my (did I say awesome already?) husband.
