My Own Thoughts

Went to Blackfive for the first time in days and cried my eyes out. Okay, I do that a lot. But it’s the story of a little girl in Iraq who was given a stuffed animal. She sat in the middle of the road in front of a convoy and wouldn’t move. Because there was [...]

They’ve used adult stem cells to make bone. Hoorah! There’s a use for fat cells I’m all for. Clayton Cramer’s is one of the blog entries I read about this.

“Let them have Christmas” says this site. Then maybe we can show them Christ. I’m not sure how he gets from one point to the other, but I’ll tell you what I think. I think that not letting people have Christmas is intruding on their civil rights. Put “offensive Merry Christmas” into Google and see [...]

In a one bedroom house made of plaster & stone. I had come down the chimney with presents to give And to see just who in this home did live. I looked all about a strange sight I did see, No tinsel, no presents, not even a tree. No stocking by the fire, just boots [...]

If you want to help support the troops, but don’t have anyone you know in the active military, you can go to anysoldier.com and find folks who have asked for help. As I said in this post, the homeschoolers around here are sending packages to the military and I’m the coordinator. As I mentioned in [...]

“I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the father except through me,” Jesus said. But apparently some people who are Christians are forgetting that. Fuller Theological Seminary has launched an interfaith conflict resolution which includes the proscription of proselytizing for two years. What happened to “Go into all the [...]

Or, as my husband put it, Homeschoolers wipe Brits’ butts. It’s good to know my homeschooling has not been in vain.

I’ve mailed 42 care packages to soldiers and Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq. But I hadn’t heard from anyone on whether they had gotten there. And I got back a bday card that had been sent in October. I was very worried. But the Marines came through! Even though their boxes weren’t shipped in the [...]

Scheiss Weekly wrote a blog entry about scrooge and humbuggy Christmas. I left a post, but then I really wanted to write more. Someone else, I can’t remember who, wrote a blog post about Christmas gifts. They didn’t come up with a list. They wanted to be surprised. Okay, Christmas at our house: There is [...]

Thank you, WWII Veterans, for your service. It is a day that lives in infamy, still.

Weasley! Weasley! It’s a cute, fun, short little animated movie. Enjoy. But make sure you watch it all the way through. When you get to the third person in the group, then it’s over.

I found two sites which are blogging on things I care about that have nothing to do with politics or the military. These are Mark Roberts’ site and John Mark Reynolds’ site. Good stuff. Go read and be edified and encouraged.

“Mary, did you know that your baby boy would save our sons and daughters?” “There are people who are whispering and the rumors are running wild. There’s a woman who’s not married and she’s going to have a child. Her name is Mary; she’s a virgin from down in Nazareth. Now listen close. She’s going [...]

I left my boys at my parents’ house Friday night and picked them up Saturday night. That meant R and I had two dates and a whole day of no kids. I love E and M dearly, but having time off was fun. I worked, ate, went out, went to the bookstore, shopped at two [...]

I went to my mother’s house to help her decorate for Christmas. At least, that was what I was supposed to be doing. However, that’s not actually what happened. My dad didn’t want me in the attic, to get the decorations out, until the house was clean. Since the living room, dining room, kitchen, and [...]

Copied this from a major’s email of what his soldiers would like. Hopefully it will be a good list for the ones we’re supporting. I can get the list out again in January. This is a good tight list. It would be nice to have wet-wipes, salty snacks, sweet snacks, candy, cereal, gum, high energy [...]

Today I received one of the birthday cards my Heroes and Villains class sent overseas. He’s not dead. He has moved. But his address ought to have worked. His command said not to list him as any soldier anymore when I went to the website to see if there was something there. That’s fine. But [...]

An earlier Christmas list that I posted 10/08. Also: new front door art plate from the artist in Sugarland who was at the Home Show help putting up the Christmas decorations– maybe as a family deal with hot chocolate and s’mores (which we used to call something else in Camp Fire Girls) a gold silk [...]

Marine “Must-Haves” List- Something to remember when I’m sending “our” unit in Afghanistan stuff. Here are some items (at least the ones not issued by the military that can be given as gifts) that made the list of the 3rd Platoon’s “Must Haves” List: Energy bars: “They’re lightweight, easy to get to,” said Staff Sgt. [...]

Here’s a tale of a discovery of a dinosaur-type underwater creature in China. Neck was five and a half feet long and had neck ribs. The trunk of the creature was about three feet long. This article on a finding in China with one grown up and a gaggle of 36 youth dinosaurs includes a [...]