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11月5日 As the first quarter endswe find ourselves settling into a routine for the week. We still have a few logistical bumps here and there, but for the most part, we have things figured out. Each of the children is finding things a bit more challenging this year. The 9 year old and the 13 year old have each been "bumped up" a grade level. I did this in order to challenge them and see if they would rise to the occasion. For the most part, they are both doing a pretty good job. DS is really enjoying both his art and science classes at co-op. He does not particularly enjoy his writing class, as it is a challenge for him, but he is putting forth decent effort. DD is enjoying her art class, Apologetics class, Church history class, literature class, and "gym" class. She is doing the work for science, but it is not her favorite. Both of their grades are a little lower than they would be at a lower grade level, but that is because of the difficulty of the work expected from them. Lord, Thank You for helping us to make a good start. Please be with us as we continue along this path You have set us on. Amen. 10月4日 Srodowisko at Quiet WatersThis is a video of my daughter's youth group at their srodowisko retreat in August. The song that is playing is the youth group singing a song that they wrote that week. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6I2a1FbHF4 This is an incredible group of young people ranging in age from 12 to 20 something. The olde3r outh mentor the younger youth and they are all hoping to attend World Youth Day in Spain in 2011. Pray for them to be able to raise the needed funds, please. 9月14日 Back to SchoolWe started co-op classes today. YDS has 3 classes and his sister has 6 or 7...I lost count! Our co-op has a very full junior high/high school level "program" and she will participate in that. It is 2 days and will probably fill most of her week after "homework" is assigned. I had won a Picturing America grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and we are sharing it with our co-op. One of the other mothers has a degree in art and agreed to teach with the grant. Both of my children had her class today. She is teaching twice...once for the younger group and once for the older group. They used clay today to sculpt after looking at and learning about southwestern pottery. Both of my children enjoyed it.
YDD has a literature class this year. I was informed by her teacher that she was enthusiastic during class and even asked if they might get to read and study more than just the 3 books currently on the syllabus. I wondered if it could possibly have been my child she was talking about, or perhaps a body snatcher alien.....
Both students have science classes with a wonderful retired science teacher. We will see how the year goes. It is the first time YDS has been sent off into classrooms without mom hovering around.
I get to be hall monitor. I don't mind being the mean mom who has to corral little ones back to pre-school music, or tell teens to lower their voices. I also monitor the door to the building we use. There is an office there for a missions group and there are elderly sisters who live in half of the building so we are not the only people in and out. It is an old convent building. We are grateful that we have use of the building. It has given us the opportunity to have a really full co-op.
Dear Lord,
Please guide us on the path of your choosing this year. May we be humble and loving. We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen. 8月1日 Talks given at the NECHC The talks given at the NECHC are now online! You can watch and listen here. 7月21日 Planned Parenthood? I was reading comments on this post at
catholicvote.org when I came across a comment that stated, "I
completely understand why the anti abortion crowds concerns with tax
money going to Planed Parenthood, (last time I checked they do allot
more than just abortion)..." Gee, I wonder what he or she "checked." I know they do pregnancy tests and push "contraceptives" which are usually really abortifacients. If that is what he means, then maybe he needs to realize that abortifacient drugs cause the termination of pregnancy, or abortion. The euphemism "women's health" that is used by the NARAL, NOW, Planned Parenthood folks really means the unhindered ability to murder an unborn child at any stage of pregnancy. I am continually appalled by the refusal of otherwise intelligent people to look at the scientific facts. I am not talking about religion here, although my religion does state that human life is sacred from conception to natural death, I am talking SCIENCE. The unborn child has a different genetic makeup than the mother. By the time that most people realize they are pregnant, there is a beating heart. This video on Youtube demonstrates fetal development from conception to birth. It is compeeling eveidence that the "blob of tissue" that so many women are told will be removed during elective abortion is much more than a "blob." I guess you can tell I am passionate about this issue. I chose life, and not always in "easy" circumstances. I had one of my children as a divorced woman with 2 young children. It was not easy, but as far as I was concerned, it was the only thing to do. I even had other "Catholics" ask me why I had not had an abortion. One said to me, "You could have had an abortion. No on e would have known." Hmmm...really? I would have known, and GOD would have known. I think that means someone would have known. Dear Lord, Please convert the hearts of those who would lie and call unborn children "blobs of tissue." Please change their hearts from hearts of stone to hearts of flesh. Bless all those children who have been ripped from their mother's wombs in the name of "choice." Amen. |
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