Fixed (?)

Alright, I think my blog is up and running again. Sorry about that.

Ack! Messed with the HTML too much

Sorry about all the mess on here- I messed with the blog setting too much and everything got out of whack. I'll fix it up in a few minutes though. At least I managed to keep (most) of my widgets on here!

Just a bit of Pro-life irony : )

Today is inauguration day. Let's pray for our new president, that the choices he makes while leading our country will be in harmony with God's will.

God Bless America

"Drawbacks" to Homeschooling

I found this in one of Mom's newsletters:

Drawbacks to Homeschooling
(by Bob Duplantier)

1. No snow days
2. You can't miss the bus
3. You can't be suspended and sent home
4. You can't hide the vegetables you don't like in a milk carton
5. Mom always sides with the teacher
6. Dad always sides with the principal
7. You can't intercept your report card and "fix" it before your parents see it
8. You can't transfer to another school
9. The nightmare of showing up at school in your pajamas is a daily reality
10. The good-looking boy/girl in the desk next to you is your brother/sister (gross!)

What has been happening? ...

Sorry I haven't been posting much! Not much has been going on. We started school again last week. The first rehearsal for the Pirates of Penzance was yesterday; the music is pretty difficult but lots of fun. Dad does not know how to read music, so I am going to have to teach him his parts.
Saturday we went to The Zone (a skating rink) for a "Classical" skate with other homeschoolers. They played classical music, and the experience was so different and amazing that I would love to do it all the time, even though I got nasty blisters.
Only one other thing really comes to mind when I think of what has been happening recently, and that is of something that has not happened recently enough. I have not practiced piano since Thursday. I would be doing it now, but Dad is watching a movie. *sigh* I really ought to have done it when I could have. I was too caught up in my book, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, and did not want to set it down.
Today I got an MP3 player! The old one did not work quite right. Actually, I am not even sure at this point if the old one was really mine or if Dad had it and just let me use it for years. Anyway, Staples had a 2Gb player for $10!!! !!! !!! It works really well. I have only one problem with it, that I can't figure out how to delete voice recordings on the device. I am sure you can though, because you can delete actual songs from it very easily.

Taylor Swift and the Chipmunks!!! :) :) :) :)

This is a good song by Taylor Swift. It is about Romeo and Juliet and called "Love Story". I really like it :) It's one of the few country music songs I can stand and actually enjoy. The video is really good- all the gowns and costumes (except one) are very beautiful. That one is pretty, but not very modest. Enjoy the song!
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This is the funny part of my post. You need to have watched "Chipmunks" (either the new movie or the old shows) to fully get it.
Chipmunks

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Christmas Pictures

Here are some pictures of Christmas for you to enjoy! I don't have much time to add captions, or whatever it is called. :) So just enjoy the pictures! These are all from Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. I have more to come from when we were at Grandma's house.

Second Batch Christmas Pictures

Thrid Batch Christmas Pictures

Think they liked their present?

Artwork

Ok, I promise I will get Christmas pictures up, but that will have to come later. I just thought that I'd put this up just for fun. Mom needed sample work to send in to Kolbe (the homeschool academy-thing we use) and asked me to take pictures and put them on a powerpoint. Unfortunately, I have not done all that much artwork this quarter, and much of what I did make I've already given to people. This is what I could come up with:

Power Point is fun.