Last week we attended the Midwest Homeschooling Conference (our first ever) and it was quite an amazing event. I am assuming that the organizers have quite a crew of people working behind the scenes to pull off such a large (we heard there were over 4,000 families in attendance) and well-planned event. Otherwise it would have been a circus!
We enjoyed milling about and meeting people and taking it all in. One of the little gold mines we stumbled across (due to a recommend from some friends) was Greathall Productions. Jim Weiss has been recording stories for over twenty years, and he has a great selection of cd’s for kids of all ages. We ordered four, and we took home one (they were sold out by the time we got down to business). Due to arrive soon is “Uncle Wiggly’s Storybook,” and I’m looking forward to that one! Doug and I listened to “Tell Me a Story” on the way home from the airport, and we were very impressed. I know the grandkids will eat this stuff up.
Our kids grew up with lots of stories. My husband read to them, I read to them, and we had (of course) Narnia on tape. Later we bought the Lord of the Rings and listened to that one while we made a cross-country trip. And my son listened to the New Testament on tape for years every night when he was in elementary school.
Jim Weiss knows the importance of stories, and he knows how to tell a good one. So now my conscience is clear. I’ve passed on the hot tip.
Wahoo! Nate was on the Today Show this morning!
God’s people need lifting up. They are very heavy by nature. They have no wings, or , if they have, they are like the dove of old which lay among the pots; and they need divine grace to make them mount on wings covered with silver, and with feathers of yellow gold. By nature sparks fly upward, but the sinful souls of men fall downward. O Lord, “lift them up forever!” David himself said, “Unto Thee, O God, do I lift up my soul,” and he here feels the necessity that other men’s souls should be lifted up as well as his own. When you ask this blessing for yourself, forget not to seek it for others also. There are three ways in which God’s people require to be lifted up.
They require to be elevated in character. Lift them up, O Lord; do not suffer Thy people to be like the world’s people! The world lieth in the wicked one; lift them out of it! The world’s Continue reading ‘Spurgeon Spot On’
Well, I finished up the Easter dresses, but Easter morning was such frolic around here that I never took a picture of them. I thought about it later – while we were throwing flour all around our kitchen between church and lunch while frying flatbreads. The timing was not perfect, and I thought I’d grab a shot later. Later turned out to be after the Jello which had more of an impact on some of the dresses than others. Either way, they have all been effectively stain treated, and just need a little touch up with the iron before I am willing to share them.
Of the things that I finished and also took pictures of, first up has got to be the diaper bag. I am very painfully happy with this little project because I did it without a pattern and it is even lined, and the zipper works! What more could a person ask for in a diaper bag? I suppose it helps that my taste in diaper bags runs small and streamlined!
You can see that inside is something else fabricy – sort of wadded up in there. Well, let me tell you about that little journey. While in line at the local Joann’s a bit ago I saw some lemon yellow flannel in the remnants and snagged it. I planned to make a receiving blanket out of it, but didn’t get around to it for a while. Then, one night, seized with the reality that eventually this baby will come, I busted it out. Turns out that I didn’t really have any cotton fabric in that size that looked sparky with lemon yellow. Rather than delay making the blanket until the next day, I rummaged out a couple of quilt blocks that I made another time and figured I could make some more and just get the thing done. And that is what I did. And I stayed up later than I ought to, and it was all very jolly. I finally finished the top, and went to bed – leaving only the binding undone. In the morning TItus woke up first and tried out my sewing scissors all along the top-most edge (it was folded very nicely on the ironing board), using very precise snips straight into the body of the blanket. The damage was actually very minimal considering that he must have been at work for some time on it. And not even one cut on the folded edge right below. Now I call that thoughtful! If this was in the “Just So Stories”, this little section would have to conclude with “and that is how the blanket got it’s intrusive binding.”
And finally, I finished off the crocheted blanket, hopefully just in time for You-Know-Who.
I know what project I’d like to show off next, but we’ll have to see if she co-operates!
It’s been too long, eh? Here’s a long overdue post with a bunch of non-related tidbits for your perusal.
While I didn’t make an appearance, I did zip through the blog party links. Hip, hip, yahoo for all you readers. Thanks for playing. Quite the variety of gals we have out there.
This has been a crazy year for us Wilson peoples so far. A week after Marisol was born, Nate took off on whirlwind, twelve day tour for a National Geographic documentary on the Shroud of Turin. Continue reading ‘Tanto Tiempo Sin Verte’
OK, I have to say that this is seriously just funny. You’ll have to trot on over to the Amoretti blog to see what I mean. I seriously can’t imagine a way to feature an Amoretti dress in a way less likely to generate any sales! Then again, who knows. Maybe people will be crazy for the wackadoodle Tim Burton look.
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