Dog Days of Summer Bloggy Giveaway

Everyone in blog-ville must know about Shannon's bloggy giveaway par-tay, go on over to her place to see the Mr. Linkey and have fun visiting all the other giveaways!
(just click the cute doggy button)

But, come back- y'all...and check out what I am giving away. I have 2 giveaways going, the first is for the CD- "Glory revealed". It can best be described as scripture set to music in an 'americana' style, featuring various artists. I am giving away 1 brand-new, unopened cd. International friends are invited to enter this one.

Giveaway #2 is for a 1-year subscription to Homeschooling Today magazine. I know the interest in this prize will be a little narrower than the cd..so just let me know in the comments if you are interested in giveaway #1, #2 or put *both if you want to enter for both.

*Sorry, but I have to limit the subscription prize to United States addresses only.

Enter in the comments section, you don't have to be a blogger, but leave me a way to contact you..or check back to see if you won and contact me!

Let me know if you are entering for prize #1, prize #2 or *both

Contest Ends Friday at 11pm pacific standard time. This will be a random, slips in a hat drawing..first name drawn gets prize #1, you get the idea...

I will post the winners Saturday or Sunday.

Most events

Most events in life can be
categorized in one of
two ways:

a good time,
or
a good story.

I saw this little quote in a catalog, and thought that sums up this whole blogging thing, doesn't it?

So, what is happening here at home? Oh, just lots of little things to keep me busy and distracted... Meg has School of Truth this week, that keeps me busy driving her to and fro and picking her up. I am so pleased she is attending, and I am really impressed with the biblical truths being imparted to our young people- I sat in one evening and got to see what they are doing. Tonight in the car, I asked Meg about the meeting and what parts she enjoyed or learned the most from. She shared with me a hymn they had sung, and we discussed the words, meaning and bible passages behind it. Then, she went on to define for me the concepts of justification, redemption and reconciliation. Wow. She told me that she felt like she didn't have a total grasp on justification and redemption, I told her I was glad that she had the definitions and Bible references memorized-that there would be days when she would be able to take the concept out -so to speak, and mull over the definition now stored up inside her, and part of it would 'click' and she would understand a little bit more. The young people and their zeal to run after the Lord really knock my socks off most days.

We went swimming with the OC Sitcom gang. We had a lovely time. I forgot my camera!! So no proof that I actually know them...

Meg doesn't get home from School of Truth until almost 10 every night...and we have a new season of Monk in the house from netflix. It's been a marathon of late nights, I am sooo tired. And nothing to show for it, not even some good, relevant blogging or anything. Just watching our show. Finished it up tonight. Sigh. Now we have to wait another whole nother year to get our Monk fix.

My Tapestry of Grace order came today. Sadly, it was only the curriculum..I am waiting for the book list before I begin ordering books, takes half the fun out of the whole buying-with- abandon-experience. I wasn't even here when the ups guy delivered it. Again, missed out on half the fun. Book packages are like Christmas for me. And oh, the suspense when the big truck rumbles down our street and stops dead smack in the middle of the street. And nothing happens for a few seconds. And you wait, watching...wondering if you are getting a package, or your neighbor across the street. And oh, bliss, you are special! It's for you!
Yeah, it's for sure the little things in life for this homeschool mom.

And my house stinks. Started 2 days ago. I hate stink. We think it is the wood floor in the kid's bathroom. It's been sinking this past year, rotting away-we suspected. I guess the smell confirms it. We live in an old house, these things happen.

Demolition begins Saturday.
I am really glad that hubby is such a handy guy.
I am really glad I get a new, remodeled bathroom out of this.
I sure hope this is the origin of the stink.
It would be a shame to rip out an entire bathroom and the subfloor and still have stink.
Just saying...

Lastly, on the mac front- we don't get to see our apple guru until next week. So, I still don't know what I am doing. I had to flee back to firefox just to function. Still love my mini-mac.
I heart my mini-mac. My heart goes pitter-patter when I think of all the wonderful things we will do in photoshop togther. And i movies...it's the big time internets, big time.

So, how was your week?


New toy

look what hubby got me!

We've had so much trouble with our computer crashing, I've been wanting a mac for a while- but didn't think I would actually get one anytime soon.

It's just beautiful- the desktop is stunning. Never owning a mac before, the learning curve seems to be a little steep. I'm going to go to those weekly classes they offer too- I think I will need it, I can barely navigate my way around here...

Sky told me that when he walked into the apple store and was shown the computer- the "mini mac", he pointed to the little shiny box and asked if it was the router. Umm, no...it was the computer. Wow.

The best part so far,

I turn it on...and it works!! Wow. And it is fast.

blogger at large

I've been a little scarce this week in blogland, not that I don't love you all, bloggerfriends...but we really have a crazy house-ful/busy week going on. This week is the Summer Training, which is like a bible conference. It's pretty intense, the meetings starting at 4pm and usually not ending till after 9pm. We have 5 people staying at our house right now, plus an extra 7 or so people for lunch or breakfast, or both..it kind of swings up and down. After breakfast every morning we have a study time to enjoy the messages given the night before and to answer the study questions we were given on our way out of the meeting. We then have lunch, and then take a short nap if we can manage one..four kids running around, it doesn't always happen...and then we make sandwiches for dinner and head out to the meeting. It's kind of like running a race.

The topic this year is "The Epistles of John", which cover the gospel of John, the 3 epistles and some of the book of Revelations. Sky and I take turns going everynight, one of us stays home with the kids. Last night one of the messages was on "Abiding in Christ", I am so bummed I missed it-my turn to stay home...

I'll be back to posting when it is all over. I will have alot of blog-reading to catch up on too.
Stay cool bloggy-friends.

free-falling

Michael Moore's "Sicko" Pirated

The Skinny: Filmmaker's Health-Care Documentary Can Be Dowloaded For Free Online

go **here** to read the article

oh the delicious irony! This quote is particularly memorable...

"Michael Moore advocates universal health care, but what does he think about free movies? "

the irony is killing

'cuz it's my party and I'll self destruct if I want to...

Help, I've fallen into a hopeless adolescent slothful calorie-packing deep pit of ambivalence. Yeah, whatever...

I need help.
I'm supposed to be on a diet, was doing really good..and now I am on this chocolate binge the likes I haven't seen in a long, long time. And cinnamon toast. And some chips with melted cheese would be really really good right now.
I'll be right back...

Here's the deep, dark confession part, my bloggy friends. I've been chain reading "The princess diaries" series. Which are surprisingly good, in a pre-adolescent, I- want- to- be- a -princess- too- and -get- the -guy-sort of way. I so need help. Just finished #3- and she finally got the guy. Whew!!
I think I am going to have to get the rest from the library tho, this could get expensive...

I'm feeling like a complete loser, because I have homeschool record-keeping to do, laundry is- well, undone...my house is a mess and I can't stop eating. I'm just saying...

To do list for tomorrow:

devotions
fold the laundry
go back on my diet
finish my homeschool stuff so I can wrap up my year
clean my house ...o.k. "straighten up" the house
pack healthy lunches for the kids, not stop for McDonalds
go to a park day and make new homeschool mom friends
put the teen lit down and pick up a classic...where's your dignity, woman??
self actualize
put down the carbs and do some yoga
look up the word ambiguous...