Please enjoy nice all-American Christmas

During an impromptu trip to a Chinese embas-, I mean, Hobby Lobby this afternoon, the children got all squealhappy about Christmas ornaments. I told them to go ahead and choose a couple because the dogs will likely break some.

There were several cute ones: a leaping frog, a sparkly silver polar bear, some decent Santas. Then dee-aitch rounds the corner and says he's found the best ornament in the whole store. He presented this flying eagle:



Patriotic? Yes. Majestic? Indubitably. Forged from the sorry leftovers in Mr. Chen's Moose drawer? Most likely.

Wordless Wedn...er, Friday: Couch Slouch Edition

Wordless Wednesday...Where the Eggs Were*

*Props to Connie Francis there.

Wordless Wednesday...Mah Peeps

The Cat Club

A certain lovely lady of mine decided that she'd like to celebrate her ninth birthday with her storybook friend, Jenny Linskey, a shy cat from NYC whose has fun times with her feline friends. So that's just what we did.

Here is Pickles the Fire Cat.

Florio came with his genuine chicken feather headdress.

Jenny looked grand in her ubiquitous red scarf...

...and on my favorite chocolate cake.

Happy birthday!
(Props to M-mv for inspiring the Jenny Linskey theme!)

Wordless Wednesday...Politics. As Usual.

Boo!

Talk of scary things arose today on a certain forum that I frequent. It seems that a few folks whom I simply adore have qualms about various legless creatures. I decided, therefore, to show off some crawly critters from my neck o' the woods in the name of animal appreciation. Enjoy, ladies!

Wordless Wednesday: Wig Out

Wordless Wednesday, Inky Face Napping Edition

Progenitorivox rocks

"They've spent millions to convince me...that paisley pill's for me!"

Big Pharma. Oh SNAP!

888 Reading Challenge

I truly hope to plan my reading for 2008 and perhaps even broaden my horizons with...fiction. With that in mind, the 888 Reading Challenge caught my eye.

Here are the categories I've chosen thus far:

• British History
• Novels from The Well Educated Mind
• Books by Simon Winchester
• Mathematics (GASP!)
  
• Biographies
• Classic Readings, which will likely consist of this one book.
• Christianity
• TBD

Note the near absence of fiction. I'm trying, people. I am. The final category may be Read-alouds That Count as 888 Fiction. Ha! I'll consider it a miracle if I come close to 56 books from set categories without diverting into education books.* I may consider it a miracle if I follow through at all.

2008: My Year of Ordered Thinking.

*Why must I plow through the same ed books, again and again? Lack of confidence? Familiarity? Obsession? It's been a rare day this year when I left the house without my now-floppy copy of The Latin-Centered Curriculum.

Wordless Wednesday...I'll bite!

Cold Feet

Call me a perfectionist. Call me uptight. I am challenged by where I want to go with this here weblog; it's little more than a scratch pad thus far.

I'll begin with two wants here:
• Soothing, graphics and an interesting layout (a towering bread pudding for the eyes), and...
• Matchless writing that humbly displays the real marshmallow-y and confident me.

Yeaaaahright.

I'll settle for the occasional wordmerge and snippets of fresh, disconnected thoughts and snortlaughs, pastry-wrapped with pictures from my real life and enticing shiny, magpie bits I find on the interwebs.

Will she? Or won't she?

Cue the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey

Dunt.

Duunt.

Daaaa!

Dunt DAAAAA! (Bum-bom, bum-bom, bum-bom)

I'm blogging and I can't get up.