Work For Me Wednesday: Teaching Responsibility

By MAD21

When my oldest first started going to preschool, it was a little hard on both of us. Even though it was only a few hours a few days a week, it was quite an adjustment. I started leaving little 'love notes' in her pockets. I told her it was a little piece of mommy that she could keep with her when we were not together. On the paper it simply said, "Mommy *heart* <her name>." I know it probably sounds hokey. But it helped both of us at the time, and became a loved tradition. (I now find them in my own pockets from her! How awesome is that?!)

A little while after we started doing this, I was out shopping one day and I found a cheap little locket. It was so cute, and at around $3-$4 you couldn't beat the price. I thought it would be a great idea to put the note inside that instead of her pocket, which would also help us resolve the problem of what to do with the notes on the days she wore clothing with no pockets. To say she loved the locket is an understatement. She wore it to school (and anytime we were apart) for a year and a half.

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Book Review: Put Me In The Zoo

Book Title: Put Me In The Zoo
Written By: Robert Lopshire
Reviewed By: EM, Age 6

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Ordinary People

By Chuck (Sharing Compassion)

While pondering the theme for this week's article, God actually placed it on my heart at our church service last Sunday morning. We have been talking about how God is able to accomplish many things and that day's message was on how God uses ordinary people.

I know we tend to look at the people mentioned in the Bible as special or "a cut above." In fact there is a children's bible that actually calls them Superheroes. Probably this is why we often feel we can never measure up and do God's work. Amazingly enough though all of the "heroes" of the Bible were flawed in one way or another. Lets look at some examples:

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The Sign Says "Occupied"

By Alan

Ever feel like you are being watched? Increasingly, this is true, since security cameras, traffic cameras, monitoring systems, and other kinds of video are in more and more locations. But, if you consider the definition of watching being something other than just visual pictures, you have lots of other things observing you. Motion detectors, audio detection, radar systems, all "watch" you to see if you trigger their programming.

We often never really think about the sophistication of designing automatic things that react to you. There are sensors to figure out the proximity of a person, either by infra-red lights, noise, or motion. Lots of ways to determine if a human (or at least an upright, warm, moving body) actually is nearby. Oh, the infra-red sensors know you are there. <click>

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Life Is Funny: Laughing At Ourselves

MAD21

I never seem to have a camera on me when things go hilariously wrong around here. Like say for my own demonstration of flying over the handle bars of my daughter's scooter. So I thought I'd share a funny video of other people (kids) demonstrating their own physical comedy today.

Have a great week friends! May it be filled with plenty of opportunities to laugh.

My friend and fellow blogger Wendy at Weight..What? has a fun carnival at her blog called "Life is Funny." Every Monday we talk about something in life that we find funny. Be sure to go visit her blog to read her post along with links to other blogs who are participating.