Ok you all. Thanks to a local friend we got something moving at our local Walmart.
She called the local store, they didn’t want to do much but then she called 1-800-Wal-Mart. Well, she got a call back and they are removing that display from the front door!
PRAISE GOD!
Between her call and the call back I too called. They said they will have someone contact me this week.
So if you want to remove these displays call! They are responding to us!
Ok I know it is only October 1st. But this is too great. Read it and remember it at Christmas time.
Twas the month before Christmas
When all through our land,
Not a Christian was praying
Nor taking a stand.
See the PC Police had taken away
The reason for Christmas — no one could say.
The children were told by their schools not to sing,
About shepherds and wise men and angels and things.
It might hurt people’s feelings, the teachers would say –
December 25th is just a “holiday.”
Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit,
Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!
CDs from Madonna, an X Box, and I-Pod,
Something was changing, something quite odd!
Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanza
In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.
As Targets were hanging their trees upside down
At Lowe’s the word “Christmas” was nowhere to be found.
At K-Mart and Staples and Penney’s and Sears,
You won’t hear the word “Christmas” — it won’t touch your ears.
Inclusive, sensitive, di-ver-si-ty
Are words that were used to intimidate me.
Now Daschle, now Darden, now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen,
On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton!
At the top of the Senate there arose such a clatter
To eliminate Jesus in all public matter.
And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith,
Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace.
The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded,
The Reason for the Season, stopped before it started.
So as you celebrate “winter break” under your “dream tree,”
Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.
Choose your words carefully, choose what you say,
Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS … not Happy Holiday!
– Anonymous Author
I walk into a local store, a ”family friendly store”. AND what do I have to deal with? My daughter grabbed my waist and wont let go of me. She is 7 years old . . . She NEVER grabs me like that! Upon entering a “man” takes his head off . . . Ok it is a machine that does this but it looked like to her a man taking off his head!
We couldn’t shop because she spent her whole time worrying about having to go back pass this man. I am outraged . . . this is the middle of September. I know in October we must be careful about going places but SEPTEMBER? ? ? ?
So if anyone is going shopping in Alabama don’t go into Walmart without warning your children of their ungodly decorations.Sher Birmingham, wife to Bill. We have 7 children (ages 29 to 6 years old) plus 3 grandchildren (ages 5 to 1 years old). Encouraging moms that they can successfully run a business, school, and keep house at Home! If you enjoyed this article, please join my e-group
God has put in my heart to write two other books. They will come out themiddle ofOctober. . . if I stay focus.One is a 30 Day Devotional for the Homeschooling Mom. (God has given me 30 days and I haven’t had time to write them out but it maybe 31 before we finish.)
The other is for the Homeschooling Mom with young children . . . something that she can do parts of it with the children. I know she doesn’t have a lot of time to be alone with God, but she needs more than anyone.
Also in my study. I found out these two ebooks are going to be connected. THEY both are used with young children to teach the HEBREW Alphabet! Isn’t that neat? I didn’t know that the 2 chapters did that. They are NOT in the same book of the Bible so I didn’t have a clue this was going to happen like this. I better get back to work on them!
Any way I wanted to tell you what is up.Sher Birmingham, wife to Bill
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A woman in NH baked cookies on the dashboard of her car! She went into work and came out to freshed baked cookies.
It’s not just an expression, it’s literal! The lady used her dashboard as an oven and she’s done it twice!
Sandi Fontaine had to bake cookies for her co-workers and her husband needed her for errands. What did she choose? She didn’t have to. Both were done at the same time with the same equipment, er… tool? vehicle? Well, her car.
Fontaine first tested her dashboard oven three years ago. She said anyone can do it; the only requirement is for the outside temperature to be at least 95 degrees, so it will rise to about 200 degrees in the car. Temperatures in the area reached the mid to upper 90s on Wednesday.
Hot! Hot innovative idea too!
Homeschoolers unit! What can we cook our cookies in? What else can we cook in our cars. We can be in nice air conditioned homes and our cars can be cooking. OR we can be at the ball park and have meals for our families.
I am going to try cooking them in my car. Here in Alabama my truck can cook them I am sure. She said she needs 95+ heat…we get that most every day here. I hate to cook and heat up the house in the summer so my children think cookies are only winter time treats.
Please write me and tell me what you find that works!
My friends at Home School in the Woods http://www.homeschoolinthewoods.com/ are offering in celebration of Jamestown 400 year anniversary a FREE Replica of Jamestown. We made ours this morning and had so much fun. Coloring, cutting and glue sticking the project together. It was so cool because this year we are studying from Columbus to Colonial USA to Revolutionary War to Pioneers. So tomorrow our study leads to Jamestown, and yesterday I received the email about Jamestown Replica. So the timing was GREAT.
While you are there please check out her free Civil War Unit Studies AND her wonderful Extives Link page!
I had already purchased my history for this year but I really like their Colonial Life
To order free books:…this is a worldly site so be careful.
1. Go to http://www.wowio.com
2. Add books to your shopping cart
3. Click order (this will require you to log on)
  You will receive an email when your order is ready
4. Download your free books
Get a FREE homeschooling ebooks every week http://www.HomeSchoolEStore.com/catalog/index.php?affiliate_id=2642
The Baldwin project has a huge list of free books…you have to sort through..click on books and you have a list you can buy read or print out for later…enjoy!  www.mainlesson.comÂ
And www.amblesideonline.com has schedules and free poetry and free curriculum options to the CM approach…have to sort through..trials and trumphs of church history seems to be good as well as a year worth of poetry and their free links.
If you give a Homeschooling Mom a cookie, she’ll want the recipe.
She will plan a complete unit study on the History of Cookies.Â
The family will take field to a farm and see where we get eggs, milk and grain.
At home they will make butter out of milk.
The children will want to start grinding their own grain.Â
Mom will purchase a Bosch Universal Kitchen System.Â
She will remember she will need a new list of cookbooks, so she will order “An Introduction To Whole Grain Baking w/ CDâ€, “Dessertsâ€, “The Cooking With Children CDâ€, and “Lunches & Snacks Cookbook†by Sue Gregg,  also “Whole Foods for Kids to Cookâ€.
Mom orders a 100 lb bag of wheat berries.
Now she will grind her own wheat grain into flour.
The children remember the farm field trip and knowing they can’t possibly get a cow, so they beg for a few chickens.
So to a trip to the library to research how to build a chicken coop and to how to care for chickens.
On the way out the door Mom see the book, “Chicken Tractor†by Andy Lee & Pat Foreman.
They stop by the Feed and Seed to pick up materials and ask where to purchase the chicks.
There the clerk tells them about egg that can be incubated.
He sells them a book on hatching eggs, eggs, and incubator.
At home Mom and the younger children set up the incubator while Dad and the older children build the chicken tractor.
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~nfantasi/ChickenTractorproj.htm
http://home.centurytel.net/thecitychicken/tractors.html
Back to the library to pick up gardening books and more books on chickens.
The oldest daughter now starts a business grinding flour for the her friend’s families.
While her younger sisters are selling homemade cookies to their neighbors.
The boys have started building a new chicken tractor because they want more eggs for breakfast.
That cookie that started this all… the homeschooling mom’s three year old ate it.
by Sher Birmingham
based on “If you Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura NumeroffÂ
Sher Birmingham, wife to Bill. We have 7 children (ages 29 to 6 years old) plus 3 grandchildren (ages 5 to 1 years old). Encouraging moms that they can successfully run a business, school, and keep house at Home! If you enjoyed this article, please join my e-group
I friend of mine wrote this. It is a conversation of a homeschool mom with God. As she stuggles with what she doesn’t get done. I am not a Failure?
I hope you enjoy it.
Oh I love this new system I have found. Now I just started today but pre-printed index cards for every room of the house. Every job listed. GREAT help in training your children to work. And great help on those of us who need help getting back on track!
Molly’s Kid Chore Organizer Â
I love it! She also has for the homeschooler Assignment cards. But you could even do it for home work for the children that attend school. Molly even has Bible memory verse on index cards.
AND Homeschooling with index card guide. It is cheep but if you want to pay a little more you can get the pre-printed index cards to go with the guide. Oh so well worth the extra investment. What we are using this summer is on Molly’s freebies.   She has already on cards the Books of the Bible. We are going to know not only the names but be able to put them in order! These cards are going to help so much to do that. AND they are FREE! what more could you ask for?Â
Please check out all of Homeschooling With Index Cards website. It is so full of great ideas for the homeschooling Mom.
Sher Birmingham, wife to Bill. We have 7 children (ages 29 to 6 years old) plus 3 grandchildren (ages 5 to 1 years old). Encouraging moms that they can successfully run a business, school, and keep house at Home! If you enjoyed this article, please join my e-group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fruitfully.Â
Also check out Cindy Rushton’s Ultimate Homeschool Expo 2007! Great to go to a Homeschool Convention in your pj’s! No babysitter, parking and hotel!