Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Feb 9, 2012, 6:10 am
Four Moms and Sweet Thangs? No, I don't mean us. I don't even mean our sweet children (and in my case, grandchildren). No, this week, we're talking about dessert.  The Four Moms are:  Kim at Life in a Shoe Kimberly at Raising Olives Connie, at Smockity Frocks And me!! This week we...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Feb 8, 2012, 4:52 pm
Salvo Magazine - The Tyranny of the Minority by S. T. Karnick No laws prevent these churches from conducting marriage ceremonies—and nearly all Americans would agree that it is right for the government to stay out of a church's decision on the issue. Further, any couple of any kind may stand be...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Feb 8, 2012, 7:04 am
Here's another purported cost to homeschooling that came up in the discussion mentioned here: But if the parent decides to use some curriculum and the student finds it tedious, what are the actual chances that the parent will throw it our and start over given the limited income you cite above and th...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Feb 7, 2012, 11:18 pm
If you watched our facebook today, you noticed a series of exciting announcements.  No, we don't have a job yet. What we do have is a Jehovah Jireh, a provider God. This morning I learned that I won 100 dollars from this free speech contest I entered last December. This afternoon,...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Feb 7, 2012, 7:39 am
I've mentioned before a discussion I had years ago with public school teachers about the cost of home-schooling. They took issue with the comparisons between the cost of homeschooling vs the cost of public schools, saying that homeschoolers were minimizing the costs of homeschooling. I'll go over so...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Feb 6, 2012, 10:19 pm
This is really interesting. In the seventies the story of Sybil was a popular 'true' book, a television movie, and a topic of interest to a wide swathe of the populace. The real Sybil's medical records were sealed until her death. Writer Debbie Natthan examined them, and wrote a book about her findi...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Feb 6, 2012, 9:07 pm
The unemployment rate had no choice but to drop because of a record 1.2 million people no longer even trying to get a job. To put that in perspective, the only number you are going to hear today (besides 8.3%) is 243,000.  That is the number of jobs added last month. That is a whopping 957,000 l...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Feb 6, 2012, 11:24 am
So numerous indeed and so powerful are the causes which serve to give a false bias to the judgment, that we, upon many occasions, see wise and good men on the wrong as well as on the right side of questions of the first magnitude to society. The Federalist Papers
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Feb 6, 2012, 12:12 am
I'm still eating low-carb, though not as strictly as I was. The rest of the family are not. Breakfasts:My fabulously frugal, easy, crockpot full of cooked grains for breakfast. When I shared the news that my husband is out of work, I also shared we have a full pantry. One of the things in the pantr...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Feb 5, 2012, 1:47 am
He is Jehovah, God of creation,He is Jehovah, Lord God Almighty!The balm of Gilead, the Rock of Ages,He is Jehovah, the God that healeth thee!He's your provider, Jehovah Jireh,God of salvation, God of Messiah!The son he sent to you, and testified of him,He is Jehovah the God that healeth thee! Sing ...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Feb 4, 2012, 2:29 pm
(Repost) In Seasons of a Family's Life by Wendy M. Wright, (A book by a Catholic writer, a book I mostly enjoyed), she writes about tears and her mother-in-law, Only twice did I see a tear on her cheek, and both times were during the last year of her life. My husband had never seen her cr...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Feb 3, 2012, 5:50 am
Here's my latest post at Frugal Hacks, which is more than usually timely. After I wrote it, my husband abruptly joined the ranks for the unemployed. We have a full pantry and freezer. We have no bills but the mortgages, and we do have a renter in the Colorado home we've never been ...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Feb 2, 2012, 5:44 am
... this verse: Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, ... what the original question-asker meant by 'stories.' that I rely on for comfort as ... .  My children's birth and adoption stories, stories of the poverty we once lived in and no longer do, ...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Feb 1, 2012, 5:09 pm
I've been so busy keeping my resolutions I haven't been able to write about keeping them.=) 1.Spiritual:  Five chapters from the Bible every day; Read Isaiah 20 times this year Progress: Not so great this last week..  How are you doing on regular Bible reading? 2.Family:  Eat mo...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Feb 1, 2012, 3:19 pm
Updated: Sadly, Planned Parenthood wins another propaganda battle.  Thanks to tactics like these, Susan B. Komen has restored funding to the baby killers. In the NROHQ kitchen just now, Charlie Cooke wondered aloud, and here I paraphrase: “Does anyone on the Left even ask the basic question of ...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Feb 1, 2012, 10:09 am
Monday my son regaled me with stories of hunting fatalities and severe accidents. Mostly, he said, hunting accidents happen when hunters fall out of their tree stands. They fall to the ground, have broken many bones, and if they are alone, they die there. Or they break their spine and never walk a...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Feb 1, 2012, 7:18 am
... I've been using it for months now and I really want to recommend it: DealChicken.com. It's another deals site, like LivingSocial and Groupon, but DealChicken is actually in my town and (in my experience) offers slightly better deals than the other two. For instance, Groupon often offers 50% off ...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 31, 2012, 5:59 pm
In last week's post on Vitamin D, Heather asked why I went with supplements (Carlsons liquid capsules) over something like cod liver oil. It's a good question, with a multi-tiered response. For one, my levels were actually rather scarily close to the "severe deficiency" category (especially so for a...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 31, 2012, 12:07 pm
The premise is here- basically, that there's a new class in America, isolated from the rest of us. I don't know what the author calls them. I call them politicians and lobbyists., but that's probably just personal prejudice. At any rate, it's always fun to take short quizzes all about your...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 31, 2012, 6:10 am
"I must hurt nobody by Word or Deed.––Justice requires that we should take steady care every day to yield his rights to every person we come in contact with; that is, "to do unto others as we would that they should do unto us: to hurt nobody by word or deed"; therefore we must show gentlenes...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 31, 2012, 5:26 am
Here's an article (profanity warning) on how being poor locks you into bad habits, and then, even after you are no longer poor, you still have those bad habits and those failed ways of thinking about things.  This is true. It doesn't always have to be true, though.  You're best chance of escaping ...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 30, 2012, 10:46 am
Right now he is at the hospital having a swallow study.  We are all holding our collective breath(s?).  He has been eating baby food very well.  He doesn't do well with thicker textures or with most liquids if he tries more than a few sips. But since he can and does eat baby foot so well* w...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 30, 2012, 5:51 am
And I mean a real belly laugh. I wrote this post about *my* diet, mentioning it was strict, mentioning multiple times it was for *me* (the first person singular 'I" used more time than an Obama speech should have been a giant cluebat). I did also mention that if anybody had toddlers who tended...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 30, 2012, 1:28 am
This is mixed low carb and regular carbs so that meal prep won't be too obnoxious. It's not my best effort though. Breakfasts: Bagels (bought some at the day-old bread store), and the crockpot breakfast grains For me: Eggs and bacon, omelettes.and an attempt at the TVP "oatmeal" here. Y...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 28, 2012, 5:54 pm
Several recent commenters mentioned taking Vitamin D supplements and that reminded me of a conversation Strider and I had yesterday. A few months ago my midwife ran a blood test on my Vitamin D levels; Striderling's condition affects his Vitamin D (along with several other things) and had the chance...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 28, 2012, 5:28 am
This is the ridiculous list of what I take, and why. Not all of it is specific to a low-carb diet. Liqui-Kelp: I take this for the iodine on a chiropractor's recommendation. She is a friend from out of town who did not know about the medical tests I was going through at the same time because I'd t...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 27, 2012, 2:31 pm
This post isn't just for dieters.  It's also useful for diabetics who want to focus on foods that won't spike blood sugars, and for mommies of toddlers like my Equuschick was and like her son is now- kids who are hungry all the time.  These foods will fill them up without raising their blood sugar...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 26, 2012, 10:44 pm
In the HG's EveryCitizen and Unexpert Opinion, Santorum and Paul came out looking much better than either Gingrich or Romney. Admittedly, Romney was more passionate and less akin to a dead fish, but the bickering Got Old. Santorum and Paul spoke more to the issues and less to personal politicking. ...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 26, 2012, 1:31 am
 The Four Moms are:  Kim at Life in a Shoe Kimberly at Raising Olives Connie, at Smockity Frocks And, of course, me.=) Without further adieu, here are the questions: What do you recommend for penmanship?  We use a program called A Reasong for Handwriting   The student works on...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 25, 2012, 11:11 am
Week Two is here. 1. Five chapters from the Bible every day; Read Isaiah 20 times this year Progress:  Still binge reading at times, but I did finish Isiah and am on my second reading.  How are you doing on regular Bible reading? 2. Eat more meals in the dining room at the table ...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 25, 2012, 10:48 am
John Cook's Skeptical Science site is rewriting history again. If the evidence is so solid, why do they need to do this so much? On another topic that causes the media much fear, the March for Life goes on in D.C. I assume they are afraid of it, and that's why they don't want readers to know a...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 25, 2012, 8:50 am
From my friend S.- get rid of all mirrors, except maybe one small one. Hang it in the dimmest part of the house. Apply make up in the car, using the rear view mirror so you can see only one small corner of your face at a time. Also: "A scarf can obscure the worst of saggy chicken necks and als...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 24, 2012, 9:53 pm
These little sweeties are the sons of the Mom who writes the Signs of Life blog- highly recommended. Here's a little manners tip for when communication with a deaf person via an interpreter. And... I am a fan of a teen drama show. The sort of thing I normally scoff and mock. Except that...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 24, 2012, 1:51 pm
When making soup, the only thing to do is make a large batch. It's just as easy to make a small batch as it is a large one. With a large one, you've got wonderful leftovers for days, and extras can be stashed in the freezer. What's not to love?
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 23, 2012, 7:07 pm
Posting from my Kindle because the internet went down today about the exact moment I attempted to keep my promise to my grandson to let him watch Old Mcdonald on Youtube. Rather tedious business, Kindle posting. My Dad's surgery is done, and he is fine. No word on results yet. ...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 23, 2012, 1:01 pm
Obviously, a couple of weeks ago:...submitting to 47 debates has been an egregious tactical error for ALL the candidates. All of you have been distracted from your own messages (if any of you have one), being duped into talking about whatever outlandish topics and biased, backhanded questions the le...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 23, 2012, 12:36 pm
Constitutional Conservatives and Republicans (and they aren't the same thing) are sick and tired of the establishment, Old School, Political Class Republicans. They are sick and tired of the Political Class Republicans anointing one of their cronies.  They are fed up with the media slan...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 23, 2012, 11:20 am
1,000 days without a budget. Former Obama staffer caught in Identity theft- it appears he used the man's identity identity in an attempt to implicate the Republican Secretary of State in a scandal. Edwards worked for Obama in Nevada and five other states during the 2008 Democratic primary and genera...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 21, 2012, 10:03 pm
Thank you for the cross Lord Thank you for the price You paid Bearing all my sin and shame In love You came And gave amazing grace Thank You for this love Lord Thank You for the nail pierced hands Washed me in Your cleansing flow Now all I know &...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 21, 2012, 1:45 pm
Another swallow study for the Striderling has FINALLY been approved by the vampire insurance company which sucks away at his family's lives, time, and emotional energy. Or maybe the insurance company is only a Zombie with no life or will of its on, just a giant bureaucratic with but one imperative:...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 20, 2012, 3:07 pm
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allow...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 20, 2012, 6:17 am
I love my Kindle Keyboard 3G, Free 3G , and have reviewed it before. Ace just reviewed his Kindle.  I also love my Kindle, and mostly agree with Ace's review, except he thinks the 3G feature is not that useful. Totally disagree that the 3G is not that important.Partly this is because I am cl...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 20, 2012, 6:05 am
Up from poverty: a comparison of Belize and Cayman shows the recipe for success must include economic freedom combined with judicial and political integrity leads. Students accepted into colleges based on reasons other than their academic merit academically do not perform as well as students w...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 19, 2012, 1:45 am
The Four Moms are:  Kim at Life in a Shoe Kimberly at Raising Olives Connie, at Smockity Frocks Kim at Life in a Shoe And, of course, me.=) How to Organize: Get one of these- Over the Door Wardrobe Rackand hang it over the door. This is what we are using now for the Cherub. These expandable acco...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 18, 2012, 1:54 am
Updates will be top posted. Allegedly corrupt former Senator Chris Dodd (D) decided not to run for re-election in 2010, promising emphatically not to become a lobbyist: Chris Dodd’s emphatic 2010 pledge not to lobby once he finally left the Senate was prompted by widespread speculation that he sp...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 17, 2012, 5:44 pm
That is truly what the house of Equuschick and Shasta ought to be called. Here is the book that started it all. Dinosaur Roar (Picture Puffins) A hand-me-down book from a friend's granddaughter when the Dread Pirate was but a mere yearling, it swiftly became one of the little man's favori...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 17, 2012, 7:29 am
... social conservatives with a healthy respect for the separation of powers, the role of the states, and a fidelity to the Constitution are far less dangerous than progressives and big government GOP types who believe in the moral superiority of the State, and who think a combination of good in...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 17, 2012, 12:23 am
... sooo Huntsman dropped out today and endorsed Romney. In states like South Carolina, where Huntsman was looking at a last place finish, this will not make a huge difference. In more liberal states, it could give Romney more sway (which the HG does not care for). On to the debate, though! I thoug...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 16, 2012, 5:55 pm
For the shopping list, click here. Breakfasts: TVP 'Oatmeal' for the low-carber. REgular oatmeal for the rest of the family. Me: Omelettes Microwave Shirred Eggs Bacon or sausage The rest of the fam can choose from one of these recipes Lunches: Blender Broccoli Soup, using crea...
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Deputy Headmistress posted an article on The Common Room - Jan 16, 2012, 3:07 pm
Lucas has made a movie about the Tuskegee Airman that I would love to see.  He tells Jon Stewart he can't get Hollywood companies to foot the publicity and distribution because Hollywood is racist and doesn't want to help out a movie with all black stars.  But then he also says it's about the numb...
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