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Humor
How to Keep a Healthy Level of Insanity

Part 2--
11. Put mosquito netting around your work area. Play jungle sound effects all day long.

12. Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you are not in the mood.

13. Have your co-workers address you by your wrestling name, Rock Hard Kim.

14. When the money comes out of the ATM, scream ''I won!. I won!'' 3rd time this week!!!''

15. When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling ''run for your lives, they're loose!!''

16. Come out of the bathroom wearing diving mask, snorkel and flippers.

17. Hide yourself around corners, door jam and hallways. When someone approaches, jump out and yell, ''booga, booga.''

18. Finish all your telephone calls with the saying ''should you accept this mission...''

19. When someone asks what you are doing, reply ''what, you mean I am not invisible.''

20. And the final way to keep a healthy level of insanity...share this with people not maintaining their insanity.

Have fun, the possibilities are endless!
anna
pockets
 
Humor
How to Keep a Healthy Level of Insanity

Part 1--
1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.

2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.

3. Every time someone ask for something, ask if they want fries with that.

4. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it ''in.''

5. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to expresso.

6. Finish all your sentences with ''in accordance with prophecy.''

7. Dont use any punctuation marks

8. As often as possible, skip rather than walk.

9. Specify that your drive through order is ''to go.''

10. Sing along at the opera.

Keep laughing!
anna
pockets
 
Marriage & parenting
Love God,your husband, kids in that order.

Sometimes I struggle with how my kids will ''turn out.'' I worry when I see constant wrong behaviors in them and think that is how it is always going to be. Then today I kind of had an '' Aha!'' moment. A lot of their wrong behaviors stem from lack of maturity. Only time will help with this. Only consistent guidance on my part and the part of my husband and PATIENCE in waiting for them to finally be old enough to not be so selfish and self-centered. I have seven children. it could be very easy to focus on all the wrong behaviors they do and try to center on them and make their issues the center of my life. But in order for our family to work efficiently and without losing my mind, I have to make my husband first.

I love my children, but my priorities need to be God first, husband second and children last. In doing this, I focus less on their wrong behaviors, get my tank filled up by an equally loving husband and we can face the difficulties head on together. And we focus less on the difficulties and more on the blessings. I applaud single parents out there. I don't know how they do it. But with God as their guide and prioritizing Him first, hopefully HE can fill in the gaps. Don't go it alone, parents. And put God and your spouse above your kids always.
mylifeisfull7

Lang arts: chapter books
Old Yeller

Here's what Papa says to Travis in the end: ''It's not a thing you forget. I don't guess it's a thing that you ought to forget. What I mean is, things like that happen. They may seem mighty cruel and unfair, but that's how life is part of the time. But that isn't the only way life is. A part of the time, it's mighty good. And a man can't afford to waste all the good part, worrying about all the bad parts. That makes it all bad...You understand?''
shepardclan