SNOW DAY!!!

SNOW DAY! (Actually, it was mostly just little ice balls, not hail, not snow, and we should have done school but its just been a lazy day. Here are some pictures:)

The skateboard ramp is great in snow!!!

Sorry this is sideways- I forgot and turned the camera to the side while filming it...

Riddle

"This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down."


Highlight to see answer
"Time! Time!"
This riddle is from Lord of the Rings, well, actually, its from the Hobbit

Quotes

I've added a quote section to my blog at the bottom of my sidebar. I'll add some more later, but this is all I have so far. Enjoy!

New Favorite Books

I just recently finished reading some VERY good books. I have heard tons about these stories, and debated for ages if I should buy them or not. Well, I finally did, and I love them! They are "Fairy Tale Retold" stories. What the author does is take snippets out of fairy tales- little quotations, and then base a very different story around them. These books are written by a Catholic author, but I'd recommend it to everyone! However, they do deal with some fairly mature themes, but in a very good way. Just a heads up. And my little "reviews" are just to get your curiousity. They aren't very good at all- I am so horrible at reviews and make the books sound so much worse than they actually are. Here are some ideas of the stuff in them:
Fighting. Friars. Fire. Dwarves. Dragons. Princes. Priests. Knights. Nuns. Ninjas. Maidens. Miracles. Chases. Escapes. Rescues. Revenge. Torture. True love.
The books' website is: http://www.fairytalenovels.com/index.cfm


"Once upon a time, in New York City", two sisters, Blanche and Rose, befriend a man nicknamed Bear. Who exactly is he? And why is he being followed?












Blanche has been home alone for a couple of weeks, working her summer job and visiting hospital patients. But Bear discovers that she has disappeared. Can they find her before it's too late?












While working on a "monster" research paper for collage, Rose accidentally discovers something that she should not have. Suddenly she has an "accident", and her friends have to try to find out what happened to her- before it is too late.










Rachel is tired of being good all the time, and has decided that it is time for an adventure. Paul must try to save her and her sisters before they step the wrong way...

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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