Friday, March 30, 2007


Well I guess it is time I posted a family Picture. We are at the corn maze near Picture Butte last summer.
This reminds me of driving in Lethbridge. There best answer to any traffic problem is lights.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Why is the shock factor Art?

My Older girls go to the Bowman Arts Centre once a week for Art classes. They are studying drawing and clay. Which is good they both really love it.
However upstairs in one of the galleries there is a painting that makes me wonder What is Art? It is a painting of a man peeing in a toilet. Now when you look at it you don't know it is a painting of a man peeing until you read the title. It is titled "I missed a pint of Mother's blood today" It is a statement on how we treat our environment and how we waste our most valuable resources and basically flush them down the toilet. Ok good statement. But I still don't understand how an ugly painting of a man peeing is art.
The girls were upstairs looking at the paintings when they saw that one. It was interesting because we did have a conversation about it. But when I told them that it was his penis he was holding they both said really loudly "EWW". I agree Eww.
Is it shock that is Art or just something that envokes any emotion including eww?

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

The fun of coming back home

I had an amazing weekend in Salt Lake city. I went down for the TJed Forum they have every year. It was fantastic. Very inspiring, very uplifting, very good to know that I am not he only one struggling with this. This being the Leadership education I am struggling to give my children when I did not receive one myself. It helped me to realize where my conveyor belt hang over was affecting me and how to get over it. To bad there isn't some magic pain killer to help. But we must feel the pain and struggle.
Dr. Demille talked about the 8Th Key. Secure not Stressed. Very wonderful. Trusting in the phases of education and the other 7 keys, Secure not Stressed is a wonderful Key to a great education. Yes but now how do you do it. I left my notebook in my friends vehicle but I will get it back soon.
It was wonderful, but I came home to a bit of a crisis. When I got back my Brother in Law was playing our wii. "Where is Fred?" I asked "He had to take Hunter and Hailey to the emergency room, they ate a bottle of children's vitamins and poison control told him to take them to the Hospital" YIKES!!!!!
But they are fine. They had to wait 6 hours from the time they ate the vitamins then take their blood to see just how much they ingested. Hailey was fine and Hunter was on the high end of normal. We had to watch for Blood in their stool but it has been almost 48 hours and they are fine. But what a scare. My goodness. I looked up on the Internet and found out that Iron poisoning is the leading cause of death in toddlers. A very fervent and faithful prayer was said at that moment. So much for "Child proof" caps. I guess Hannah decided she wanted a vitamin and left the bottle on the table and that is how they got them. Fred was watching television in the other room with the other kids, and didn't notice until it was too late.
Now I must take to heart what it was I learned this weekend, and implement it. And I am sad I forgot my notebook. And the trip down, to be with like minded people for that long, was very refreshing. It is so nice to know I am not alone, that their are others who think and believe the same as I do. It can get lonely sometimes and I think I am crazy but this kind of event cements that for my family I am doing the right thing. I am the expert in My home I am able to do the right thing and give my children a superb education. And I am excited to do it.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Duck tales

I am in a reminiscent mood. I loved this show.

Good show

It was a good show and the lyrics are great. I especially enjoy little gary Coleman dressed up like Mr.T. Ahh the good old days


Great news

Actually there is not a whole lot going on. I finally took the time to go see my Grandparents and we had a good time over lunch. I have a huge entourage of children and sometimes they are very loud so we don't go over very often. I know they are very glad to see me and my kids but I am sure they are just as happy to see us go and wait for the next time.
I do have 6 kids but I have 6 wonderfully behaved kids and I think that makes all the difference. I know some kids that are insane. I would rather have my 6 over one of theirs.

So what is the great news. The great news is I beat it again. Every now and then I feel a great sadness coming on. I don't really know why it happens but it does and the good news is I was able to shake it off. The weather has helped a ton I am able to ride my bike with Megan around town, the wind has died down so we don't blow over. I also had a great visit with extended family this weekend. My cousin is home from her mission so we made the trip in to say Hello. That helped a great deal.
I feel hopeful and happy. I am also excited about a trip down to Salt Lake City. There is a great day long seminar dedicated to Tjed. It is like a big EFY but for Tjed. And I get to go. A friend of mine is coming with me so maybe we can split up and then meet back together to compare notes of what we have learned.Truly it is hard to be sad a midst all this greatness.

Nothing to Liber going on I am trying to read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, but the Sackett series from Louis L'Amour got in the way, and so did Education of Little Tree. So I will try again. I did make it to Chapter 5 before Sackett got in the way.
I also made a bag. I call it my scholar mom bag, because I can fit in my Wallet, the book I am reading, my commonplace book, 4 diapers and wipes. I am hosting a big Tjed forum in Lethbridge in May and my friend and I have a product we are going to try and launch, It will be a scholar Mom binder, and a bag to put it in. Another friend of mine is designing the papers for the binder. We are excited about it. We will make only a few then take orders when they sell.
I find it interesting when I go through these strange cycles. I feel the sadness coming on, try to beat it, when I do I feel like a new person that can take on the world. I just feel bad for those people who have to live with my during the down times.
But all will be well, for a while. Its really good to write when you are happy so that when the sad times hit you can read them and realize it is not all bad.
We have been invited out for dinner to a family I hardly know and now Fred can't come. I am a bit nervous. So wish me luck and thanks for reading my rant.

Thursday, March 8, 2007

I am what I am

I love this song and I love this movie and someone was clever and put the two together for me.


Monday, March 5, 2007

Its a girl!!!

We have had a new addition to our family. A 3 year old Golden Lab named Nala. She is very nice and now that she is getting used to our total chaotic lifestyle I think she will be a really good dog. She follows Hunter around the house hoping he will drop food. Meals times are the best because she sits under his highchair and just waits. Sometimes Hunter feels sad for her and throws food for her and laughs when she catches it out of the air
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My baby sister is getting married, and I feel old. I am excited for her.


I have picked up the book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Prisig. I am looking forward to reading it. I have had many friends say they had many many epiphanies while reading it and it has greatly influenced there lives. I love books that do that. If a book can make you look at your life and see where you are doing good or need improvement it is a good book.


A book that helped me with that just recently is Laddie by Gene Stratton-Porter. A great book. It makes you think about what is not seen when you meet someone new. I also really liked the mother in that book.


Oh another book that I love is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I didn't realize I had some forgiveness issues until I read this book and it helped me see where and who I needed to forgive. Very powerful, very moving when a book can do that.

I just read an article that says they did a study with Highschool students and get this they are bored in class. the thing I found the most disturbing though was they only read and studied for less than an hour a week. I will be the first to admit I didn't study very much but I did study for more than an hour a week. My Aunt whom I lived with during Highschool is laughing and saying "yeah but barely" which is probably true.

Anyway an hour or less a week, thats not so good.

I now attempt to read probably on average about 2 hours a day while my babies are napping. I have discovered there is so much to know and so much to learn, I find it painful sometimes when my babies wake up from their naps and I have to put my books down. I hope this is inspiring to my children. My 2 year old daughter can be caught reading a book upside down on the couch at any time of day and cries when she doesn't have a book to sleep with. Its like a comfort to her. Tonight she was mad when I tried to give her a magazine instead of a book and I had to return to our bookshelf and get a proper book.

My brain is always all over the place. Thanks for trying to keep up with my train of thought.

Sunday, March 4, 2007


I had an experience this past weekend that led me to believe an important part of my past still believes me to be, well, stupid. I have made choices that are not on par with main stream society therefore they don't understand what I am doing. This article always makes me feel better so I decided to share it.

http://www.gwc.edu/newsletter_2001_dec.asp



I think you should all go read it.

Heres a tidbit

Author Edith Hunter describes the important influence of an educated woman in the home: "Educated women in the home? What an odd thing to deplore! What better place to have us 'end up'. . . What more important job is there than sharing the values we are learning to cherish with the next generation of adults? What more strategic place could there be for the educated woman?"



http://www.gwc.edu/newsletter_2001_dec.asp

Thursday, March 1, 2007

I was trying to leave another video from you tube but it didn't work. I will try again another day as supper time beckons. It was one about the Dove Campaign for real beauty and it showed all the steps that a model goes thru to get the picture than all the photo shop steps after the pictures are taken. It shows that what we see in magazines is not always true to the models real look.