Finger Injury System

Yes, yes there is such a thing.

It exists. And there is a system, with several steps, and parts.

Do you know how I know this? Because I have teenage sons who cannot even play flag football at co op without injuring themselves.

Now I must add that he went to writing class after his injury, and did most of his homework at home before he mentioned his ‘wee little accident’ (his words) to me.

He has a carpet burn (from the non carpeted gym floor, hummm?) and a damaged finger.

It is jammed at best, broken at worst.

I am not terribly worried as this is not my first broken finger, well I personally have never broken my finger because I’m a girl; a delicate, graceful flower who does not do such things. What I meat to say is, this is not the first broken finger on a teenage boy (or grown man for that matter) that I have had to doctor.

D broke his finger putting trash in the dumpster when he was the lowly warehouse guy many years ago. The lid closed on his hand.

B broke his finger playing dodge ball at AWANA. This one was bad. His finger was at an unnatural angle (that is the nicest way to say what his freakish finger looked like) and had to be set and casted.

G’s finger is just swollen and painful. It is still in its intended position, thank goodness for small favors!

So today we went to CVS for another ‘system’ to deal with the latest teen boy injury.

Ahhh, life with teens. It’s amazing any of them make it to adulthood.

Mad Picture Taking Skills

I had to share some photos my budding photographer has taken. He really has an eye for creative photography.

















Of course he is a 13 year old boy, so we still see the occasional photo like this...

The Beauty Is Lost

And this is what happens to Beauty when you add homeschooling...



One teenage boy extracting the DNA from split peas.

One ten year old daughter reading a historical fiction book.

One 8 year old daughter trying to light paper on fire with a magnifying glass ON MY KITCHEN TABLE.

And one 13 year old boy taking photographic evidence.

A regular old homeschooling morning...priceless.





I have to say though that that is pretty cool. See those strandy things? That is not imperfections in my glass (because I have totally given up on glass and those are acrylic 'glasses' but that is for another post) those are DNA strands, or something (hay, I'm not the one taking Biology).

COOL!

I'll restore Beauty after school is done for the day.

Beautiful

It has been a hard few weeks around the Hilltop. I haven’t blogged about it much because, well, who wants to read my whining?

I can’t go into it all, but suffice it to say others’ bad choices have vomited into our household. We have things to deal with weather we caused them or not, weather we want to or not. It is hard and I am tired.

I feel like my home has sorta been invaded and I am out of sorts.

I was at the store today and I saw all the pretty flowers in the floral section and I just looked at them for a while. God’s beauty. It just makes me feel better when I can take some time to reflect on Gods beauty. My house currently does not feel very beautiful, and a trip to the mountains or some equally beautiful place is not in the cards right now.

So I did this.


We don’t have a lot of extra $ right now so the big bouquet of red roses was out, but the little $5 Poinsettia plant and $5 sparkly pot were within my budget. I also bought this cinnamon scented candle.

I have to say that having something beautiful and something that smells pleasant can go a long way to restoring my attitude.



A little beauty goes a long way.

Thank you God for creating beauty.

Getting political here on the Hilltop.

I watched a TV news show yesterday all about the United States current immigration situation, and I just don’t get it. Why is this such a big issue? And let me tell you, when you live down here on the southern border, it is a HUGE issue. There is something on the news every night or in the paper every day.

Here is the thing. I can solve the whole issue, so President Bush here’s the deal. Ask any Elementary school teacher and they can tell you that it is just not nice to cut in line. If you cut in line, you go to the back.

See? Done.

If you are here illegally, you must go to the back of the line. You don’t have to go home entirely, but you don’t get full rights and privileges of a citizen of the US until everyone who is going through the process legally is done first.

If you want to come here…great! Get in line; we have a process by which people can become citizens of the US. Follow the Process.

If you are not currently in the US, and you decide to come here illegally after we have instituted the Tricia Policy, we’ll send you home.

I also don’t understand why those who have come here from Mexico are so upset about this. This is not about being Mexican. (I must digress here and tell you that my own sister is Mexican, her dad is from Mexico, she is my half sister, and she thinks the terms ‘Latino’ and ‘Hispanic’ are ridiculous. She is an American with a Mexican heritage. Her dad is Mexican. So I will use the terms Mexican and American)

This new Tricia Policy is equal no matter where you are wanting to come to America from; Mexico, China, Europe or even Canada.

We have rules; follow them and we’d love to have you. Weather you are from Mexico or Borneo. And if you are Mexican, don’t take it personally that we want all who come here to do it legally, it is not about where they come from, as much as it is about how they came here.

My Canadian friends, do you have immigration issues?

And tomorrow we’ll be tackling World Peace.

Monday Morning With Alvin

Deck the halls with something jolly,
Fa la la la la, la la la la!

This is what I woke up to this morning. It was being sung in a high pitch, at breakneck speed, by no less than three giggly girls, over and over and over...and repeatedly.

Remember Alvin and The Chipmunks from the late 70's early 80's? Yeah, like that.

They did this while they ran back in forth down the hallway for reasons still unclear to me.

I am pretty sure their tromping measured at least a 5.5 on the richter scale.

Folks, break is over. School starts back today.

The problem is that the teacher is still in bed in her robe because it's a Monday after a long holiday weekend.

If I could just get the singing to stop I could go back to sleep. But because it is such a catchy tune, G is whistling it now. This is funny because he has asked them to stop singing it several times. But now he is whistling it.

It is too early and, you know, too much Monday for all this...jolly.

Coffee, coffee is the answer. And Prayer.

Theologically speaking...

You must be very intelligent to attend my Sunday School class. I am not very intelligent. These are some of the words I heard today that stretched my little brain. It hurt. Next week I’m bringing my laptop so I can look up the words that the teacher is using. And I am going to drink A LOT more coffee.

Seriously people, those that attend and teach (excluding myself of course) my class are the Christian version of the rocket scientist…theologians. I am surrounded by theologians.

Eschatology – is a part of theology and philosophy concerned with the final events in the history of the world, or the ultimate destiny of humanity, commonly referred to as the end of the world.

Justification – In Christian theology, justification is God's act of declaring or making a sinner righteous before God.

Sanctification - refers to the act or process of making holy or setting apart.

Glorification - is the third stage of Christian development. The first being justification, then sanctification, and finally glorification. (Rom. 8:28-30)
Glorification is the completion, the consummation, the perfection, the full realization of salvation.

Zionism – is an international political movement that supports a homeland for the Jewish People in the Land of Israel.

Ethnomusicology – formerly comparative musicology, is cultural musicology or the study of music in its cultural context. Formed from the Greek words ethnos (nation) and mousike (music), it can be considered the anthropology or ethnography of music.

Millennialism – (or chiliasm in Greek), from millennium (which is Latin) means "thousand years", is primarily a belief expressed in some Christian denominations, and literature, that there will be a Golden Age or Paradise on Earth where "Christ will reign" prior to the final judgment and future eternal state, primarily derived from the book of Revelation 20:1-6.

Theological anthropology - refers to the study of the human ("anthropology") as it relates to God. It differs from the social science of anthropology, which primarily deals with the comparative study of the physical and social characteristics of humanity across times and places.

Eyes glazed over yet?

Winter is Here!

The new winter blog design is up! Heather is great at what she does! She even cleaned up the ‘Cast of Characters’ over on the left.

I am still tweaking the blog a bit. I am having trouble changing the fonts. It is weird, it lets me change the colors, but not fonts and sized.

I’ll keep messing with it and see if I can get it to work.

So, what do you think? Is it whimsical yet soothing? It looks so clean and orderly to me, I wish it were so easy to order everything in my life!

SMILE...or not.

Getting a family photo where all 6 of us look good, is impossible.

Getting a family photo where all 6 of us look decent, is impossible.

And apparently even getting a family photo where we all look like members of the human race, is impossible.







I guess this will be another year with no photo in the Christmas cards.

Thanksgiving Turkey -

Don't eat too much turkey tomorrow and don't forget to be thankfull!
(I know I'm thankfull I'm not a turkey!)