O Christmas Tree

My son did it again. Yesterday we discovered that someone had taken a bolt out of our lawnmower and the handle was falling off. (we assumed that someone had done this since both of our backyard gates had been kicked in and a few bottles of vodka-small bottles- were strewn on the lawn)

But I asked him to find something that would help us keep it together so we could mow. He entered the shed...less than thirty seconds later he came out with one of the bolts from our Christmas tree stands. It fit, it worked, we will keep it there until we buy a new bolt. Smart boy...that one!

If we don't get around to fixing it....will we remember where that bolt is when our tree is leaning ever so far over to the left??

Life Lessons /Best Teachers!

The day before yesterday my son learned a hard lesson.

Computers and static electricity don't mix.

More lessons- You can salvage
256 RAM

60 GB Hard Drive
ATI Radeon 9250 Graphics card

Fast ethernet 10/100 MBPS network card
40x CD Drive

And a bunch of other computer wires. (He means a bunch) This has been quite a hands on experience for him. When I asked him what he has learned most he said, "Never leave your computer plugged in when you are working on it!"

Always something to learn

Yesterday I took the kids to one of those golf/frisbee parks.

We didn't spend a lot of money. The frisbee's were $1.oo a piece at Wal-Mart. We played on a nine hole course. Each player had their own color of frisbee to play with. I printed the map out from the computer and my boys navigated for us.

The wind blew our lite weight frisbee's in all sorts of directions. Occasionally a kid had to duck to avoid getting hit in the head. My kids added the scores, navigated and had a wonderful time. I know my kids are older, but younger kids would enjoy this sport.

One of those proud parent moments

If you have ever seen your children's brains in action...you will understand why I was so proud!

Sitting on the living room floor last night...we needed to blow up an air mattress for a guest we had staying at our house.

It was dark and I didn't want the kids going through boxes in the shed. My youngest son suggested that he could use the blow dryer, set on cool air to blow it up.

Only the connection was all wrong. The blow dryer nozzle wasn't going to fit in that hole...no matter how hard it was pushed.

He said..."I know I'll take that pop bottle use the top part to fit in the nozzle and cut off the bottom of it to fit the blow dryer in." Fashioning his minor invention took seconds and with a little assistance from some duct tape...he had that mattress blown up in less than 5 minutes.

Go KID! The fact that he used DUCT TAPE....does frighten me somewhat!

Public Speaking

Several months ago when we were looking for a church in our new home town....we chose a smaller church because we wanted more opportunities for our children to learn to serve.

(I know that there are ways to serve in a large church too....no judgment here! It was just our choice!)

Our two sons gave the sermon again on Sunday night. This is their second time.

Our oldest son did a sermon on 1Timothy and and letting no-one having a chance to look down on your youth. He talked about purity in speech, faith, love...etc. Very well put together.

Our second son spoke on faith and used three scripture references pertaining to the birth of Jesus and how Mary had to have faith, how the wise men had faith and how the magi had to have faith. He did such a good job.

It was interesting to see their individual personalities handled their talks. I am so proud of them.

Of coarse this counts as speech class.