Picture Time!

I'm all out of steam, running on about 1/8 tank right now, so I'm turning to my old standby for my weekend wrap-up post. Pictures! Yes it's picture time indeed....I thought I'd recap the week that is now mercifully behind me! Knock on particle board for thinking it will be better next week, because I'm just smart enough to know not to expect that!

A bright note--Alex in effort to hasten his earnings spent part of late Wednesday evening cleaning my bathroom. It's quite an undertaking, especially my counter...it's pretty hopeless. I was so tickled to see the end result:

Just like a guy thinks--if it can all be shoved together, clearing room on the counter, then it's good! The black fabric in the foreground is actually a piece of lining that fell off one of my tops and onto the floor. The soap box is empty, but bless his heart the root lifter spray looked so good on it! Why not? Loved loved loved it!

It snowed good Tuesday (or was it Monday--I forget) and the good news is, I do believe this is the last of the snows for us. Again, knock on particle board.

This is how skewed I am when I view my little boy (who is almost 11 now)....the other day I was cleaning the basement and came across these old outdoor end tables. I was going to throw them out when I had an epiphany! Alex loves to cook...sweet little tiny baby that he is. If I stored them in the laundry room off the kitchen, he could grab them and use them for step stools when he's working with me! And.....here you see how off my view of my little baby boy is:

WHEN did he grow ten inches?

Finally many of you already know Friday mornings are deadline mornings for me. Which means if I've dawdled around too much, I'll be up all night and into the morning typing. Last night (morning) 3:30 was threatening to catch me before I finally shut off the lights. I had time to capture this at about 2:30, dark circles and all:

And here is the stack I've already completed next to my very much coveted XM radio....of course Coast to Coast AM is always on from midnight until I wake up.

I've missed checking you all out over the past few days, so I'm excited to have the evening to myself tomorrow (John's got suite tickets to arena football and is taking Jeff, Cat's husband, and his brother, Jeff).

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Bad Bad Reuben And The Concubine

I'm still keeping up with MiracleWord.net, and the version of the Bible I'm reading is just about right for my brain. I'm reading The Message Remix, kind of brings the language down to the street level I can comprehend! When I start my reading, I find I usually can't believe I'm done because this version really and truly DOES read like a novel.

Sailing right through Genesis and I'm at the part where Jacob is handing out dibs on final blessings for his sons. And the first son, Reuben, isn't getting a lot of kudos by his papa. Why you ask? Because he slept with one of his father's wives! I wonder if he figured she wasn't his main chicka, Dad wouldn't mind mind. Not! Jacob's not giving up any good stuff to Reuben in the end. Guess he's holding onto it awhile longer. Can you picture Reuben's face?


I remember several years ago reading The Red Tent with the church book club and hadn't yet been exposed to much Bible reading yet. So when I read this book (also based on Jacob's family, specifically his daughter Dinah), I told a friend what I thought. And a phrase was coined for the rest of the study on the book. Bible porn. Imagine my shock when I'm reading through what I assumed was the ultimate book of good things--the book filled with butterflies, arks and rainbows. And I come across one bad bad bad after another. Bad. Bad bad. Very bad.

I'm closing in on Exodus, and I know Moses is in there somewhere. I hope he saved me a seat, because when I read on, something tells me I might need one! It's not even CLOSE to too late to jump in, just look at the reading for today on the site and start there. You can always backtrack. And hang out with me on the forum, I'm thinking I could use some venting buddies.

Learning Economics Next to the Hotdog & Popcorn Stand

Friday, I think it's widely known by previous posts that Alex and I were in little jars....so I thought it might be kinda fun to clarify what that means :)

We have something here called Blue Springs School of Economics, and even the homescool groups can participate. Mostly public, so I was pleasantly surprised to learn we could participate! We arrive, each child is assigned a shop with two shop parents. Ours was sand art jars and bookmarks. We advertise our store with the poster (that's what we did earlier in the week) and when we arrive Friday, we frantically make the jars and bookmarks and open the shop for the consumers.

There's more to it, something about learning economics, loans, supply and demand, blah blah blah....but the most important things were that sand art jars were very fun, we got a store next to my friend Susan and her son, who happened to be selling food (yay me) and Alex enjoyed himself.

We're off!

Production begins!

Time to sell the goods!The gathering meeting afterwards...not gonna lie, some homeschoolers are just well, odd little oddities. Cute, but....can't place my finger on it.....(not my Alex, though, nope, he's cool like that)

Just when I go and say that ^^! Where does he get this posing stuff from?