For your listening pleasure. . .

Mario Theme Song on Accordion, enjoy.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly on Ukulele and Voice.

Mr. Rosso tries to lay it down for the teenagers.

Man that King Of Red And Yellow is the greatest.

So I’m sitting at the home of The King Of Red And Yellow. Our kids and “Small Thing”, the junior member of said blog, get on well. Small Thing is also homeschooled. Actually, Laine of RnY is the one blogging. I said Laine could do it. So Laine did. I said I didn’t care because nobody but my sister and a few people from church read this.

Why? Laine wants to stay in touch.

Summer Smiles

Where has the summer gone? It beat it’s wings along the hot southern wind and floated by with cottonwood and dandelion fluff.

We have been preparing for something other than the end of summer, the beginning of a journey; a last flight before the change of colors and temperatures.

You might not hear from me for the next couple weeks, as we are packing up and moving to Kansas. Ft. Riley to be exact. My husband got his report date and we have to be there by August 26^th.

So, our prediction of starting school in the RV was technically right. Depending on when we find a house, we might be staying in it for a while.

It will be a coming home of sorts, as both my husband and I were raised only 2 hours from our post. Golden waves of grain, fields of sunflowers, rolling pastures of sweet grasses and happy cows (which are quite blissful in Kansas as well as California btw) will greet us and make us feel a little less like strangers traversing a foreign land.

Hebrews 11:13

Exodus 2:22

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

2 Corinthians 5:1-8

Laptops and education, the good and bad. . .

A very thorough and inviting view into the classroom of technology.

What I am learning from my school’s infatuation with computers

By Sarah Heller McFarlane

Something I have been very concerned about myself, and I know there are other parents and educators out there who see the effects of technology on social and civil interaction and learning.

Food for thought. . .

Quote from The Family That Makes It, Victor Books:

“We Christians have been guilty of doing to the teachings of the New Testament what the scribes and Pharisees of Christ’s day did to the teachings of the Old Testament. The original Scripture was simple and clear cut. The scribe’s additions to it were innumerable, complex, and unbearable. And our young people, faced with the accumulation of man-made do’s and don’ts with which we confront them, are likely to feel confusion, frustration, and a desire to chuck the whole.

God made life simple (not easy, necessarily, but simple). It is man who complicates it.

Perhaps we as parents need to lead the way in seeking to rediscover what God has told us in His Word, simply and clearly, to do. We need to set out–not reluctantly or hesitantly but eagerly and with relish–to obey His will.

Our obedience must begin right where we are–in the home.”

_Ruth Bell Graham