Happy Victoria Day!
Monday, May 23, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Breaking Down A Block
A recipe for breaking down a Blocking Attitude in your child.
Preheat the situation to 180 degrees from a learning attitude.
Ingredients:
1 child (or 2, as many as four. Five is overdoing it and six is being a show off)
1 big problem (can substitute with huge, humongous, or enormous problem)
Mix said ingredients together.
Stick in situation for five minutes until frustrated attitude is prevalent.
Wait until you hear the words, "Mom, I can't do this."
Once magic request is heard, apply home remedy to restore situation to proper attitude of learning.
Home Remedy
Apply one of the 5 w's (What is the problem? Where are you having trouble? Why all the fuss? Who is telling me that they've run into a bit of a gaff? When do the problem start to get frustrating?)
Once applied, continue repeated applications until the problem is identified.
Once identified use extracting tool to find solution.
How to Operate an Extraction Tool
Using this multi-faceted tool, first apply the jack knife. Slice through the problem, and asking questions all the while, determine whether or not this problem can be broken down into sequential steps.
Using the magnifying glass, compare size of each piece of information.
Using tweezers, pick the largest piece of the puzzle and solve that particular step. Follow suit with the next piece and so on until problem is solved.
Blocking is undone.
Learning has occurred.
Good has been done here.
May 19 2011
This morning's weather was straight out of Jack Johnson's Banana Pancakes...so I made pancakes that way and we stayed in our pj's until 9:30 am.
Then off to the greenhouse to indulge in as many green things as possible. We came home with an abundance of verdant pleasures that will be put in our garden very soon.
Farewell to visit grandfolk and on to several games of baseball, followed by many new Lego designs.
Time for worm hunting...which soon turned into puddle collecting.
Three puddles to jump in!
Happy Thursday
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Counting to five and Twenty Dickens-style
Here's what our week looked like:
All day outside digging worms and all things garden.
Evenings:
I indulged in all things Dickens this week and watched Little Dorrit on DVD.
It's very hard to to press pause or stop and go to sleep...because you lay in bed thinking...
"What is the big secret? Why does the watch have the message DO NOT FORGET written inside?"
It is gripping stuff I tell you. Gripping.
Happy Saturday!
Monday, May 9, 2011
I fought the lawn and the lawn....
In the red corner, we have the reigning champion. Heavyweight-hitter with a goal of world domination, Mr. weed-sucking-the-life-out-of-your-plants Dandy Lion!
(Crowd boos)
In the blue corner we have the challenging underdog, featherweight with a goal of yard weed annihilation, 5minutemom.
Crowd cheers
YAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!
5minutemom does some fast talking. "Dude, first I'm going to boil your roots and kill your potential to dig deep and fight against me....
You will never age.
You will not grow grey.
You will never see your grandchildren.
(Leans close and whispers)You will die alone and friendless.
Who wins?
Find out....
dunh,dunh,dunh!
Sunday, May 8, 2011
A Place for Lonely Hearts on Mother's Day
To the girl who sits in shaded silence today because her mother died at a young age; you have travelled years of growing up and growing into yourself and look for her whisper of approval in every woman that you have come close to. You've bravely stared today in the face and softly said the words,"I still remember you."
Today can be a lonely day.
To the girl who dreads this day and stays home from church, because she can't bear to hear that there are great moms to honour when she was robbed of that affection from a selfish woman who loved her unhealthy habits more than herself...more than her kids. You are familiar with the feeling of something being not quite right and asking yourself, "Why couldn't I be enough for her?Why would she do that to me?" You quietly ask yourself, "Will I ever do that to my kids?" And then swear to yourself you won't.
Today can be a lonely day.
To the girl who is made to feel small by her mother's words. Whose choices today constantly bring the disapproving sneer and the hard words that hit you across the heart. You wear the brave face of a soldier and weather her comments about your choices and how you are raising your kids.
Today can be a lonely day.
To the girl who is far away from family and watches as everyone else gathers in homes to celebrate, who picks up the phone and tries her best to say the words "I love you" but knowing that a hug would mean more; who struggles with being far away from all that is familiar.
Today can be a lonely day.
And yet the Lord is here.
Jesus will meets us in all of our weaknesses and bring comfort to those who mourn, and hope to the weary. He has placed you here, in the Body of Christ, where you are loved and appreciated for being a Daughter of the King.
He has a destiny and a plan for you.
Psalm 68:6 says so.
He sets the lonely in families.
Today doesn't have to be so lonely.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Quick Update
Hey Everyone!
Just a quick hello to those stopping by the blog after reading the new Wisdom magazine.
This is a busy two weeks for my family and I won't be posting very much.
Welcome to my blog house, though.
Kick off your shoes.
Take a look around and grab any ideas you want.
Leave a note and let me know what you find!
I'll be back to blogging after Mother's Day weekend.
Blessings!
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