My Own Thoughts

I wrote about the IQ test at Emode. What I didn't know was that if you are less than 13 it won't give you the information. And it is set up for lots of monkeying around. You can't get around it by going backwards and entering something else. Also, they must have put a cookie [...]

It has been a long time since tenth grade. A long time since I was in it. A long time since I last taught it. Now I have to plan two classes. One eighth/ninth grade. One tenth/eleventh grade. I know it is easier if I have it planned out in advance. But I am not [...]

Last Seen is a fun book about a single mom and the strange guy who moves in next door. He thinks she's a prostitute. He says he's a painter. But neither are true. Thankfully the truth, about him, is told before they have sex. I hate it when they have sex before all those secrets [...]

Texas doesn't require testing, but I have started having the boys do the Stanford Achievement Tests every May. We've only done it two years. I have them tested for the grade they would have been in if they were in public school (for you Brits that's the state run schools). They're both doing a year [...]

I'm a homeschooling mom, which means my mornings are not typical for Americans. I get up fairly late, 8 or so. I generally take a shower and make my bed. This morning I talked to my folks and we are meeting for lunch. So at 9 sharp, we started school. I called the boys downstairs [...]

This morning I woke up, pulled on clothes and went out to turn on the water for the lawn as soon as my husband got out of the shower. While he was getting dressed for work I was unloading the dishwasher and reloading it. I also took the wet towels and swimsuits out of the [...]

The lesson was on John chapter 17 where Jesus prays right before he dies. The first part of his prayer mentions himself. The second part is strictly about his disciples. The third part is for “those who believe in me.” So me. Maybe you. He prayed for us to have complete unity. The teacher said [...]

This fake weblog from Inluminent is a funny intro to Texas weather and problems with it. However the author, who lived in Dallas and now lives in Austin, missed it when he placed the blogger in Houston. We get way too much rain to have cacti in the backyard. Even in a drought year like [...]

I was going to sleep. Then I remembered that I hadn't signed my son up for VBS this next weekend. The cut off was tonight at midnight. So, at 11:15, I got up, went to the church website, and registered him. Sitting naked on the couch in the dark living room emailing the church youth [...]

It's summer and we live in the woods, so we expect bugs. However, one of my sons is VERY attractive to bugs and he's gotten five or six bug bites each night after he's gone to bed, so we decided to fog the house. We got 10 foggers, to make sure we had enough. (I [...]

The Brits do things a little strangely, to my way of thinking. There's an article on BBC today about the governments' quotas for hospitals causing 25 people to lose their eyesight due to cancelled and delayed appointments, which were cancelled or delayed by the hospital. Since they cancelled or delayed to meet the quotas, that's [...]

15 years ago this weekend my husband and I went on our first date. That's a miracle all in itself. I met him at summer school (graduate). Thought he was nice, fun. But no big deal. Then he called me before he left town. We talked for two hours. Afterwards one of my friends said, [...]

I went to a hotel meeting this week. Actually I went to two of them. A hotel meeting is when a publisher has their books available for perusal and you can order them while you are there, plus you don't have to pay the shipping costs. A few weeks ago I went to an A [...]

At least in terms of calories. Reuter's Health says that a Ben and Jerry's chocolate dipped waffle cone with a regular scoop of chunky monkey ice cream has more calories and saturated fat then an entire pound of baby back ribs. (There are lots of other scary calories listed in the article.) I'm not such [...]

I wonder. I pray for the military stationed over there and for their families here. And I wonder. Are things as bad as the media says? How bad are they? I have a friend whose husband is a civilian over there and she says things are not good. But she doesn't make it sound horribly [...]

My hubby's job supplies his insurance and we can buy ours through them. But it is horribly expensive. $1200 a month for me and the boys. We can't afford that. It went up in April and we've been short ever since. It's going to go up again in December. If something doesn't change, we may [...]

I do things in cycles. I read this kind of book or that kind of book. Then for a while I write. Then I work out way too much for a while. Then I do something else. I don't think it is as obvious as what my husband does. He goes through cycles, too. Survivalism. [...]

In the last three years we have visited four churches for several months at a time. But none of them have held us. There are reasons for that. I'll get into those later. But first I want to say to anyone who runs a church website, make sure your address and service times are on [...]

We've been in Houston now for three years. Since that's longer than I live most places, I should be able to say I have friends here. But I don't. There's no one here who would miss me if I were gone. Part of that is because we don't have a church home. I grew up [...]

It's an interesting show that is on HBO. It interviews, follows, watches one strip club dancer per show. Some of them you really like. Some of them you don't. Some you wonder why they're doing what they're doing. There's Bunny who dresses like a cross between a six year old and the elder Barbara Bush. [...]