Be sure to turn off the music on my sidebar before you watch the videos or you’ll hear a confusion of noises.  You may have to watch them twice for them to buffer correctly. Posting videos is new territory for me so I may need someone to guide me in fine tuning the process. Yee Haw!  Ride ’em cowgirl.  It was probably this poor kids first time riding a sheep and she gets this…  (She was perfectly fine when she got up.)    This bull rider was de-ter-mined! Nobody had been able to make a qualifying ride (8 seconds minumum).  He was the last rider.  I think he would have been pretty stiff…

Take a look at this Frosted Mini-Wheats box – at the very top where it says Clinically Shown to improve kids’ attentiveness by nearly 20%. In very small print there is a 1 next to the 20%. If you read the footnote for that notation here is what it says. Based upon independent clinical research, kids who ate Kellogg’s Frosted Mini-Wheats cereal for breakfast had up to 13% better attentiveness three hours after breakfast than kids who ate no breakfast. I hope they didn’t spend too much time on this "in depth" study – or very much money. Funny how they try to wow you with their studies but then…

This might get interesting. I can do this every Friday or not – depending on if I get it done. Sounds good to me. Here are the rules… be sure to post them when you join! 1. Post a photo for each letter of the alphabet of anything that starts with that letter. 2. Write a few short explanatory, quirky, or witty sentences about each photo you post. 3. Only post one photo at a time (the meme can take as long as you want – a month, three months, whatever… you aren’t being graded). You can link them later in a blog post so they are listed in order…

We’re having a little "discussion" about crumbs in our house right now.  This is it. My kids each have a different meal time clean-up job.  One sweeps while another wipes the counters and table.  The question is should they sweep the crumbs from the counter directly onto the floor since another somebody will be along shortly to sweep? I have created a poll on my sidebar asking what you do in your home.  You don’t have to be a registered user of Homeschool Blogger to participate and all voters will remain anonymous. We can’t wait to see the results – especially if they support our point of view. Crumbling under the crumb…

I thought my quiver was full until I read about this family that just had their 17th child!  Wowowee.  According to Discovery Health the Duggars’s have changed about 90,000 diapers.  Hmmm, I wonder if she uses cloth diapers? You’ve got to see the house that they built debt free.  Go here for photos of their commercial kitchen, laundry room that has 4 washers and 4 dryers, the playroom which has an indoor slide, rock climbing wall and other entertainments.  Sounds like a built-in vacation spot. After reading about Mr. and Mrs. Duggar, I feel like my family of 6 kids is rather small.  But eleven years solid of pregnancy PLUS nursing… (do you hear me whimpering)  <smiles>…