Weekend Kindness
Reaching Others Through Kindness

I?m new to the whole homeschooling scene, seeing as this week marks the forth week since we have begun.  One of the challenges that we?ve had was reconciling the number of days that our home state requires and the fact that curriculum we purchased had fewer days worth of lessons.

As we began looking around the web for answers, we found that a lot of what they do in the public school can be done in a homeschool and it counts!

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So, here I am, late at night, oldest child on the couch with a head cold.  Some would blame it on the change in weather.  Others could blame it on not getting enough vitamins.  I blame it on my coworker.

That’s right.  About three weeks ago, my friend and coworker decided that he was going to be a tough guy and instead of staying home and getting over his cold there, he decided to come to work and share it with all of us.  His cold went on for what seemed like two weeks, and he came in every day, coughing with his voice almost gone.

Now, I have a healthy immune system, but even I felt a little of the effects.  And my middle son all of a sudden had a cough that sounded just like my coworker’s cough.

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Monogamy lasts in the Bible all of four chapters.? From the creation of Adam and Eve until this statement about Lamech in Genesis 4:19:

And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one [was] Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

We are lead to believe that there were only marriages between one man and one woman.

What was the compelling reason to have two wives?? Insurance against sin:

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No, not that kind of hero.

Your daughter wants a hero, and she?s chosen you, Dad.? Scary, eh?

The twenty-first century hero looks a lot different than those of previous centuries, but has many of the same characteristics.

Meg Meeker, in her book Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, lets you know that being your daughter?s hero may mean doing things that she won?t like:

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It?s funny.  If you sit down and do the math, we?re supposed to get 7 hours of sleep a night.  That?s 49 hours of sleep a week, roughly 210 hours of sleep a month, and 2,555 hours of sleep a year.

We spend 29% of our time sleeping?and most of that on a mattress, but when we go to buy a mattress we try to save as much money as we can.

We?re laying on that mattress longer than we?re in our car (for most people) and yet we skimp here.  We?re probably not playing our Wii as long as we?re sleeping, and yet we?ll go all out? well, I think you?ve got the hint.

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What do you use to keep your family and your house safe?

A few years back, my family and I went out to visit my inlaws and when we had returned we left the doors to our car unlocked.  The next time we got into the car we found that someone had gotten inside, stole the in-dash CD player as well as a whole wallet of CDs.

I don?t consider my house to be in that much of an unsafe neighborhood, but I?d be lying if I didn?t think that, when we were leaving for this last trip, that I should do something to keep my computer safe in case someone came in.  I mean, I have irreplaceable photos on it!

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No, not in our relationship, in our cellar walls!

For some time now we?ve known that our basement as a mold/mildew problem.  We?ve actually had a couple different people come in to take a look at it.  The first one was a guy that wanted to drill holes in the bottom concrete blocks of my house?s foundation and then run a new drainage system around the outside.

And that was only protecting me against the basement floor from getting wet, which is wasn?t.

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