Elena 
Sally is taking the heat for adding Pay for Post to her blog. I feel your pain Sally. I’ve been getting some hits from Tony’s blog about the ads I have here at MDC.
I try to showcase products and items that I like, that I own, or that I would buy, because I figure my readers might like those things too. And the little extra helps my family and helps me justify the time I put into this blog. I would never do a quarterly fund drive on the blog, so this is a much better option! I promise however that when I hit the lottery Tony, I’ll take the ads down, M’Okay?!
Speaking of finances, Tricia at Blogging Away Debt has a great article about two online banks that offer higher interest rates. I am really considering this as a forced savings program. I hate my bank. Hate them. They are thieves and pick pockets and I could go on and on, but let me just say our relationship with that bank really went into the dumper when Mr. Pete made a deposit at 5:32 on a Friday, and because it wasn’t in by 5:30, we overdrew. I loathe that bank.
SemiColon has a nice list of reading for her middle school daughter. The Shakespeare Stealer looks very interesting!
She has another one for her high school graduate daughter!
Everyone has Apron Fever
Tie One On
Kitchen Madonna.
Sprittibee had some great ideas about handling clutter for homeschoolers.
Free timeline for homeschoolers and students. They will be adding images soon!
HT In Beauty and Grace blog for that!
Melissa Wiley had a very nice YouTube presentation of 500 Years of Women in Art!
It’s stunning!
Here is a very concise explanation of why the birth control pills are abortifacient.
I found it courtesy of Jen at Et Tu?
Jen also referred to this article in the Wall Street Journal about teens and the fact that adulthood keeps getting artificially postponed!
So where does the stereotype of the moody, sullen, sexually irresponsible and financially incompetent adolescent come from? Dr. Epstein says most adults would behave that way, too, if they had no responsibilities, no rights, and money to spend. Today’s schooling and child-labor laws worked well in the late 19th century, when factories brutally exploited young workers, and a lifetime of education had to be packed into the start of life. A century later, the laws serve only to divorce teens from the adult world.
“They are free to spend, to be disrespectful, to stay out all night, to have sex and take drugs,” says Dr. Epstein. “But they’re not free to join the adult world, and that’s what needs to change.” Speaking of teens, here is a homeschool teen speaking out on socialization!I’ll leave you with this cute story my best friend just sent me in an e-mail entitled, “The Middle Wife.”The “Middle Wife” by an Anonymous 2nd grade teacherI’ve been teaching now for about fifteen years. I have two kids myself, but the best birth story I know is the one I saw in my own second-grade classroom. When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell. So I always have a few sessions with my students. It helps them get over shyness and usually, show-and-tell is pretty tame. Kids bring in pet turtles, model airplanes, pictures of fish they catch, stuff like that. And I never, ever place any boundaries or limitations on them. If they want to lug it in to school and talkabout it, they’re welcome. Well, one day this little girl, Erica, a very bright,very outgoing kid, takes her turn and waddles up to the front of the class with a pillow stuffed under her sweater. She holds up a snapshot of an infant. “This is Luke, my baby brother, and I’m going to tell you about his birthday.””First, Mom and Dad made him as a symbol of their love, and then Dad put a seed in my Mom’s stomach, and Luke grew in there. He ate for nine months through an umbrella cord.” She’s standing there with her hands on the pillow, and I’m trying not to laugh and wishing I had my camcorder with me. The kids are watching her in amazement.”Then, about two Saturdays ago, my Mom starts saying and going, ‘Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh!’ Erica puts a hand behind her back and groans. “She walked around the house for, like an hour, ‘Oh, oh, oh!’ Now this kid is doing a hysterical duck walk and groaning. “My Dad called the middle wife. She delivers babies, but she doesn’t have a sign on the car like the Domino’s man. They got my Mom to lie down in bed like this.” Then Erica lies down with her back against the wall. “And then, pop! My Mom had this bag of water she kept in there in case he got thirsty, and it just blew up and spilled all over the bed, like shhheew!” This kid has her legs spread with her little hands miming water flowing away. It was too much!”Then the middle wife starts saying ‘push, push,’ and ‘breathe, breathe. They started counting, but never even got past ten. Then, all of a sudden, out comes my brother. He was covered in yucky stuff that they all said it was from Mom’s play-center, so there must be a lot of toys inside there.” Then Erica stood up, took a big theatrical bow and returned to her seat. I’m sure I applauded the loudest. Ever since then, when it’s show-and-tell”, day, I bring my camcorder, just in case another”Middle Wife” comes along.Now you have two choices…laugh and close this page>or pass this along to someone else to spread thelaughs.I know what I did!!! Live every day as if it is your LAST chance to make someone happy!
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