Keeping a 6 year old happy

I bought a new bible for Christmas, really Mom bought it for me, thanks Mom! :-) It came wrapped in bubble wrap of course. I just walked into the other room where Serenity is watching Dora the Explorer on TV and handed the wrap to her. She perked up and said "You know how to make me happy!" and is now happily popping the bubbles while snuggled beneath a warm blanket in front of the fireplace where I started a fire this morning because it was frosty this New Years morning. Simple things can make a 6 year old happy, fancy toys get old quickly but a favorite stuffed cat has provided endless entertainment and comfort to her. :-) I do love Serenity, she is a joy to watch and live with.

I'm still thinking about the homeschooling idea and have ordered a book from

I do need to be careful that I don't "over research" the thing. Sometimes I get so involved in researching things I never get around to actually doing them :-) On the other hand I don't want to jump without having a good idea of just what I'm jumping into.

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NBC anti-life?

I would boycott NBC, if I ever watched it that is. I actually never watch anything on the old line networks, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX. Everything I watch is on the cable only stations... do they still broadcast over the air? Ah well, this story is about the fact that it seems NBC refused to air an ad put together by some Catholic outfit that features an embryo and all of the hardships it faced in early life ending up with the revelation that they were talking about Obama. Here is the ad , check it out and see how unoffensive it is. Like I said, if I watched them I'd quit now. :-/

Child Driven Education

Here is a Ted Talk with Sugata Mitra on Child Driven Education... very unschooling-like I think. :-) I've seen videos of him before, this is an update on his research on letting groups of kids learn on the internet, mostly without any supervision at all. Posted via email from The Angry Gnome

The Tea Parties

I didn't make our local Tea Party , but it pulled hundreds of people as well... Tea, anyone? from Father Hollywood by Father Hollywood Like hundreds of thousands of other Americans, the Hollywoods enjoyed a tea party this past Wednesday. "Tea party" (wink wink). Nothing subversive about sipping a little Darjeeling, eh wot? Nothing to see here, Miss Napolitano. Anyway, our local festivities were held at Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie. There were literally thousands of people crammed into the neutral ground (though on that day, the ground was anything but...), as cars and trucks poured by the busy boulevard laing on their horns in support. Here are pictures. And like every such gathering in our environs, there was even a brass band and an improptu "second line" parade. It was a "party" after all. But it was a party with a serious reason. The crowds were so overwhelming that it was hard to hear the speakers, and unfortunately, we did have a fe...

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