Brain Test

I did this test I found at http://heartofservice.blogspot.com. Isn't this interesting........its fun, you can try it here http://mindmedia.com/braintest.html these are my results....

Lisa, you are mildly left-hemisphere dominant while showing a slight preference for auditory processing. This overall combination seems to indicate a well-working blend of logic and judgment and organization, with sufficient intuition, perception and creativity to balance that dominance.
You will at times experience conflict between how you feel and what you think which will generally be resolved in favor of what you think. You will find yourself interested in the practical applications of whatever material you have learned or whatever situation you face and will retain the ability to refine whatever knowledge you possess or aspects of whatever position you are in.
By and large, you will orient yourself toward intellectual activities and structure. Though not rigid, you will schedule yourself, plan, and focus on routine and continuity of operations, rather than on changes and disruptions
When changes or disruptions occur, you are likely to consider first how to ensure that such disruptions do The same balance is reflected in your sensory preference. You will tend to be reflective and measured in your interaction style. For the most part, you will be considered objective without being cold and goal-oriented while retaining the capacity to listen to others.
Preferentially you learn by listening and maintaining significant internal dialogues with yourself. Nevertheless, you have sufficient visualization capabilities to benefit from using graphs, charts, doodles, or even body movement to enhance your comprehension and memory.
To the extent that you are even implicitly aware of your hemispheric dominance and sensory style, you will feel most comfortable in those arenas which emphasize verbal skills and logic. Teaching, law, and science are those that stand out among the professions, along with technical sales and management.

So does this surprise anyone who knows me? The only thing that surprised me was that I thought I would have been way more of a visual learner......show me and I can do it!!

Future Archaeologist

We may have a little archaeologist in our midst. After studying about archaeology on Monday Abby set out to see what she could find . These are a couple of her findings.

She found some metal thing and a soccer ball. Samuel also found a stick of some sort. Erin went with them on the hunt but did not bring back anything for us to see. You should have heard some of the stories they told about how and why those things were in the woods. Very imaginative!! We may have some future archaeologists!!

Back to School

When you go to school at home things are a little different than if you go to public or private school. We can come to school in our PJ's, we can choose what time we want to start and what time we will end. We can even choose the day we want to start. We started a little early this year. The kids we not excited about that at all....but I think they actually enjoyed most of the day. This is run down of the day.

• 8:00 pancakes
• 8:30 School begins (today we began with a quick review of rules)
• History/Story of the world
• Language/ Phonics for all 3
• Math with Samuel while the girls worked on Language
• Math with the girls/Samuel did a puzzle
• Handwriting with all three
• Science/Astronomy
• 11:30 Lunch break
• 12:30 Reading time (I read to Samuel while the girls read independently then Abby and Erin each read to me, then I read a book to all three)
• 1:30 schools out /free time/ play time/nap time

So that's how today went. We did not do our Bible time today. We will pick back up with catechism's this year and Dave is doing a study with us at night. I am very encouraged with how the day went. We have alot of work this year. I like all the books I chose for this year and the kids seemed to also.

Dave had a good day. It was his first day at Donoho. He will get students next Monday. He is going to be learning how to balance his responsibilities at the church with his responsibilities at the school. ( and of course his responsibilities at home:)

Our House

We are bored! I know we shouldn't be, but we are. Well we are busy with household stuff, but ready for some structure. We are going to start back to school Monday. I have all of our books, the school room is clean and organized and I am ready. I don't know if the kids are ready, but I have have been counting down the days to them this week, so they know its almost time. We will take a vacation mid September so it will be good to start early. These are some pictures of the day. We cut the grass this morning, I mowed while Dave did the weed eating. I took these pictures for those of you who have never seen our yard. It is a monster to cut. We worked together and finished in about an hour and half. The kids cleaned up the garage while we did yard work. The bottom pictures are of our neatly organized school room....... And NO we have not caught the mouse.

Late Wednesday Night

OK. It is 1:05 a.m. and I am fretting! I got back from the grocery store around 11:00. I cleaned out the van and unloaded the groceries. I got all the groceries put away and sat down in the living room to fold a load of clothes. It was about midnight. I was watching Law and Order, folding clothes and enjoying my time alone, when something caught my eye. I looked over in front of the window and saw a MOUSE!!!!!! I saw a MOUSE!!!!! I ran downstairs and woke Dave up to tell him I saw a MOUSE!!! He mumbled some words and gave me the "I wish I could do something look" before he went back to sleep. I went to look and see if we had any mouse traps.....of course we did not. So I sat in the living room staring at the TV.....the mouse was behind the TV. He did peak out once. I got a large rubbermaid tub and was prepared to trap him, but he didn't show his face again. So now I am sitting here wondering what the mouse is doing. Dave will take care of it in the morning......but its like 5 hours until he gets up. He's got a cold so I really hated to bother him......but I did see a MOUSE. So if I can, I am going to try go sleep .....The kids are all three sleeping on the top bunk in Erin's bed. That is some comfort to know that they are up high!!! I guess I can be glad we don't have snakes. I may not sleep at all tonight! I'll update after we catch/kill the MOUSE or MICE.

Worldview

Have you ever thought about what type of worldview you have. How do we develop a worldview? Do you have a biblical worldview? I started looking at this after I read the book Family Driven Faith. Your worldview is how you view life. We develop our worldview from our our education, our parents, our culture and our surroundings. The movies we watch, music we listen to, books we read all contribute to our view of the world. "Worldview" is a term used to describe the belief system by which a person understands or makes decisions about the world. One of the most prominent modern-day worldviews is postmodernism -- a belief system that rejects the notion of absolute truth. This is often expressed in the statement, "That may be true for you but it's not true for me."(Baptist Press) So how do I make sure I have a biblical worldview? How do I show my children the importance of having a biblical worldview? I guess the obvious beginning is through Bible study. We need to see what the Bible say about........everything?

2 Timothy 3:16-17 says "All scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."

So that leaves us with alot of studying, right? I guess so. I'm going to continue to dig. If all those different things I listed above contribute to my worldview, then I really need to be more aware of what I'm taking in. I hope this was not incoherent ramblings to all of you great Biblical scholars who read my blog. :) Remember these are just the ramblings of a SAHM seeking to teach my children well. If you have anything to add, I would love to hear it.

All in a Days Work

Dave and I Spent most of the day on Thursday painting the eaves of his Moms house. I managed to be covered in paint by the time we were done. Dave hardly had a drop on him. We have more work to do today but the hard part is behind us. (thank you Abby for your great photography:) We also went to Jasper to check on the house that Dave's grandmother lived in. She died on Sept. 7, 1999. We had been married 1 year. We got the call that she was very sick and we needed to come to see her. We went and were there with her until she died. It was a good time for Dave, his mom and his siblings to get to spend with her and with each other. They reminisced over times spent in that big old house. It was kinda scary at night in that house.....and that is not just my opinion, Dave and Carolyn thought so too. I was sick throughout the days we were there. Little did I know but I was pregnant with Abby. It was good to be able to take Abby Erin and Samuel to see where their great-grandmother, Ollie Rebbecca Tucker lived.