Christmas Socks
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etUq95XKGiw
When I was a kid my Dad got a hold of this Mr. Bean Christmas special and we watched it every year during the holidays. This was way before the Mr. Bean movies, that for some reason I have never seen. There is always some time on Christmas day where someone in the family would make reference to “Christmas socks” so there is a crazy sentimentality that comes from this clip for me.
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Homeschool, Are You Crazy?
I just finished having a great conversation with my friend Tonya who is starting to homeschool her kids. She kept saying things that piqued my interest in it once again. Several years ago I did a little reading on the subject and thought it would be impossible for me to pull off. It seems so daunting trying to take the education of your children completely on your own. But there is funding for it, and groups to join, and education counselors… maybe it wouldn’t be so hard. Everyone I talk to that has done it loves it, and it seems appealing to integrate chores, and music lessons, and road trips into your curriculum. I have been increasingly frustrated by the amount of time that school takes. They are there for 6 hours and then come home and spend all afternoon on homework, and there is barely time to do the basics like chores and a few extra activities such as scouts or dance. I may get this book that Tonya recommended, 100 Top Picks For Homeschool Curriculum to see what the options are. This is supposed to be a great resource for finding the teaching strategies that best suit your goals. What are your thoughts?
My Cards May Come Late, But 93 Years?
Updated: 12/17/2007
A postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed in 1914, but its journey was slower than Christmas. It just arrived in northwest Kansas.
The Christmas card was dated Dec. 23, 1914, and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from her cousins in Alma, Neb.
It’s a mystery where it spent most of the last century, Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schultz said. ”It’s surprising that it never got thrown away,” he said. ”How someone found it, I don’t know.”
Ethel Martin is deceased, but Schultz said the post office wanted to get the card to a relative.
That’s how the 93-year-old relic ended up with Bernice Martin, Ethel’s sister-in-law. She said she believed the card had been found somewhere in Illinois.
”That’s all we know,” she said. ”But it is kind of curious. We’d like to know how it got down there.”
The card was placed inside another envelope with modern postage for the trip to Oberlin — the one-cent postage of the early 20th century wouldn’t have covered it, Martin said.
”We don’t know much about it,” she said. ”But wherever they kept it, it was in perfect shape.”
(Image found by me, not actual postcard)
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I am having a rough day. Rob and I are once again in the low part of the firm cycle, and he is always working. I have been doing a little grieving of my own, which is why I was particularly moved by Tammy’s entry on her blog. Her loss is complete, and I’m sure she would give anything to even just sleep in the same bed at night with her husband, or be able to call and ask him a quick question on the phone. I’ll do my best to appreciate my blessings.
Read MoreTwenty Years Already?
I am one of those goofy people that loves the movie, “The Princess Bride.” My Dad sent me a link to this cute article about it’s twentieth anniversary. It is one of those movies that doesn’t try to prove itself, and tells a story that is fun and G-rated. Oh, I guess there is that one line when Inigo Montoya finally corners the six fingered man… I have always thought that the raunchy comedies are sort of the easy way out. It’s always harder to make the clean jokes funny.
One memory that came back to me as I read through this article was of my Dad doing career day. When I was in sixth grade we had parents come in and tell about various careers. Mine came in to talk about making movies. (He worked on several movies the most memorable to me being, “Mr. Krueger’s Christmas” and “Windwalker.”) I remember being so proud of how cool my Dad was for knowing about how movies are made, and remember him using the scene from this movie where Fezzick is climbing the the rope up a cliff as an example of what a blue screen can do. Anyway, I highly recommend this movie, and will gladly sit with anyone and rattle off great quotes. 😉
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAfMLPqUkeU
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