January 27th, 2006 Americans on Call is a non-denominational prolife organization with a unique approach to the age-old problem of abortion:
“The will and the resources needed to end abortion are already in place and readily available. All that is lacking is their unity as a network and a constant, visible place in the public consciousness.”
Check them out for yourself and see if God isn’t calling you to be prolife in this
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January 27th, 2006 Be a peacemaker. Greet troublemakers with gentleness, charity, and a refusal to cooperate. Seek Christ in others–all others–and focus on Him. Ignore gossip. Especially if it’s about you. Think before you speak. Especially when you are angry. In the midst of turmoil, keep your inner sense of peace and joy. Especially when you want to do otherwise.
January 26th, 2006 It’s good to see that older brothers haven’t changed much since the time when I was a girl and being “tutored” by my own big brothers:
Ambrose: You see all the brown spots on the outside of this banana?
Juliette: Yes.
Ambrose: That’s where spiders went to the bathroom on it.
January 26th, 2006 “A cat! A bad cat!” Gabrielle shrieked from her bed in the middle of the night last night. By the time I reached her bedside, I was still groggy.
“A what?” I asked her.
“A cat,” she sobbed as her small arms reached up for me. “A bad cat in my bed.”
I scooped her up and smoothed her hair. “It was just a bad dream,” I tried to calm
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January 25th, 2006 Here it is! Steelers Kids Club– with coloring pages and everything!
January 25th, 2006 When I gave Kateri a Learn-to-Crochet kit for Christmas, I knew it was the kind of gift that would require some commitment on my part. I didn’t mind that, though. I have wanted to learn to crochet for years and I figured that this might just be the kick in the pants I needed to actually learn this time so that I could teach Kateri. When I sat down with
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January 23rd, 2006 As any parent of an 8-12 year old boy knows, sometimes there is just no shortage of corny jokes. And all of them are just soooooo funny that they simply must be told over and over and over again. Well, since I have been experimenting with audioblogger recently, I thought we could begin a new weekly installment here. Are you ready? Here they come… Corny Jokes of the Week. Click
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January 23rd, 2006 I frequently get emails from people who want to know exactly how we homeschool, what curriculum we use, etc. Are we Charlotte Mason-types, unschoolers, or classical educators? Because we don’t use a set curriculum and because we don’t subscribe to any single philosophy of homeschooling, I find these questions difficult and time-consuming to answer. So, as a means of giving people some idea of the kind of schooling we do
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