Bible memory fun

A mom at church shared with me how she prayed over her kids every day from Ephesians 6- the armor of God. We have taken up the ritual at our house each morning at breakfast. The boys love to pretend to put on each piece of their armor and know the scripture to it quite well. When we get to the shield of faith, they always add with particular gusto, "...that extinguishes the flaming arrows of the evil one!!!" Recently the boys have also been particularly taken with the story of Samson and Delilah, and we have been discussing what the Bible teaches about being careful of wayward women who will lead a man into trouble. Now when we get to the shield part of our armor, Ben exclaims, "the shield of faith, that extinguishes the flaming arrows of the evil WOMAN!"

RIP old laptop.

My laptop has officially died, and this has really put a damper on my many legitimate and not so legitimate uses of the computer- the special food allergy recipe lookups, the photo downloads from the camera, the free homeschooling printables, researching the pressing and important questions of the day, perusing craislist and realtracs. Not surprisingly, it has also freed up a lot of my time. I strongly suspect this was a divine intervention! So, while we wait for the release of Windows 7 on October 22 to purchase the new machine with a fresh, clean install of the new version, I will just keep on realizing even more ways that I probably rely too much on the computer. And my little homeschool will only be half as great without all our little handwriting, cutting and glueing printables. But really I think we will make it :)
Culinary adventures are underfoot! I could write for several hours about the culinary adventures of the past several months driven by having a child with yet-to-be definined serious issues with tolerating foods. But lets not do that today. I just wanted to share that I just bought a leg of lamb. Lamb is supposed to be one of the best tolerated meats for people with odd food issues such as my little Sammy. SO here we go into the crockpot with the big bloody mess of meat. Should be interesting. Would consider posting photos of the finished product, (and of Sam's face when he tastes the meat) but that will have to wait for a day when I have my own hard drive to clutter up with such items. Okay then. That's all I have to say about that.