Thursday, April 16, 2009

Jesus vs. Satan (a bit of humor)

I found this joke on one of the forums I belong to. I thought I'd share it here for those may have never seen it before.

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Jesus and Satan were having an on-going argument about who was better on the computer. They had been going at it for days, and frankly God was tired of hearing all the bickering.

Finally fed up, God said, 'THAT'S IT! I have had enough. I am going to set up a test that will run for two hours, and from those results, I will judge who does the better job.'

So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away.

They moused.

They faxed.

They e-mailed.

They e-mailed with attachments.

They downloaded.

They did spreadsheets!

They wrote reports.

They created labels and cards.

They created charts and graphs.

They did some genealogy reports .

They did every job known to man.

Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency and Satan was faster than hell.

Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and, of course, the power went off.

Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld.

Jesus just sighed.

Finally the electricity came back on, and each of them restarted their computers. Satan started searching frantically, screaming:

'It's gone! It's all GONE! 'I lost everything when the power went out!'

Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files from the past two hours of work.

Satan observed this and became irate.
'Wait!' he screamed. 'That's not fair! He cheated! How come he has all his work and I don't have any?'

God just shrugged and said,



JESUS SAVES....

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Homeschool Buyers Co-op

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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Spring break!

I guess most homeschooling parents would take their spring break and do nothing. I can't think of anything but using this week for retooling and rethinking.

I'm not saying that what we're doing isn't working. That's not the case at all. I gave ds9 some of the placement tests from AOP to see what he knew and what he didn't. I'm now going to go over them and figure out where gaps need filling in before we progress to 5th grade work.

I'll keep you all posted!

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Do you want to change the world?

You may think that it's impossible for one person to change the world. It probably is.

Various schools of thought have different wording for this same sentiment but I think the gist of transcends all world and biblical viewpoints.

A single rope can be broken.
Two ropes together are a bit stronger.
Three ropes are not so easily ripped apart.

Now take that analogy and apply it to homeschooling and what would happen to the seriously lacking public school system that we have in this country. Imagine what would happen if you had a million or more ropes tied together?

What if every family chose to homeschool?

I want to see all of us ban together to change the world or at least the face of the U.S.

IF you feel the same way I do, then please comment below because I'd love to hear from you!

Did you know?

That most of the founding fathers of this country were homeschooled? They didn't have public schools back in the day and what they did have wasn't mandatory. Think of how brilliant our founding fathers were and what they accomplished.

If homeschooling was good enough for our founding fathers, how could any parent concerned about their child's education not want to homeschool his or her child(ren)?

I've got all kinds of things on my mind and I'm not stopping here.