I've been thinking that some obstacle courses this summer would be fun. Monkey's not rollerskating yet (though maybe we should find some), but this kid-made obstacle course looked like fun. Here was another idea.
I enjoyed seeing Rand Paul go after the energy folks in this clip. Go Mr. Paul!!
Harmony Art Mom had a good idea - put up a painting for your desktop wallpaper for art appreciation, and I chose this one by Degas.
And, last, here's a lovely article with a more realistic look at those pioneer foremothers' lives. Here's a favorite snip:
Because the lure is there to think, Since I can never do as good a job of it as they did, why try at all?” or “Clearly I am not cut out for this. Some women were not meant to be homemakers, and I am one of them. I should go back to work, and things will be better.”
While it may seem like a silly and overblown reaction to the fact that pioneers grew their own food and we just found ourselves unable for the third year in a row to plant that vegetable garden we wanted, it is a mantra that is too familiar to many. There is a seductive whisper around us: “Just give up. You aren’t good enough. You can’t do this. Who do you think you are?” And we all know the one who would love for us to fall for those lies, don’t we? But we forget that we were not intended to be pioneer foremothers. God put us here, in this time, and with our own challenges. These challenges are different, sometimes less immediate, but quite often everywhere around us.
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