Today started off with a bang!  Quite literally!  A grouchy husband dropped something on his way out the door at 6:30 am and I never went back to sleep.   I decided to use my nervous energy (I never really do recover when I wake up with a start like that!)  to clean out the area around my desk.  Around 7:30 a lady that I met at church called – Kendra has been making friends with her daughter and telling her she should “quit school and get a REAL life” – and giving her the whole “unschooling” schpiel.   The mom said that they had been reading a book that Kendra loaned to her daughter, and she wondered if she could stop by and talk with me.  My first thought was “Oh no!”  I thought we had made her mad.  But when she got here it was a pleasant surprise – she is considering letting her daughter pull out of school and Homeschool/unschool!     This girl is the head of the flag squad, and very involved in so many activities at her school, but her mom said that school has gotten harder and harder – too much workload, and too much pressure – and never any time to live a life.  What a fun job to get to be the one to tell her it didn’t have to be that way! 

THEN I had to go and pay our taxes.  I got a little education about the differences in how things work here and what I was used to in WV.    That was a difficult check to write!  OUCH!  When we refinance in 2 years, I am going to have the taxes and insurance rolled INTO our loan.  I’ll never do it the other way again!

                I looked some things up on the HSLDA website – because as I spoke with this woman, I wasn’t sure that I had a full grasp on the Texas state Homeschooling laws.   I found more about them on the THSC site.  However, when I was perusing the HSLDA site, out of curiosity I found out that a secretary in Jefferson County where I used to live had sent out letters to homeschoolers in that county that contradicted Homeschool law.  Just a reminder to those of us who Homeschool to stay informed about the laws of your state!

                Then late this afternoon – I did it.  I have debated about it for months now – on and off again.  I have worried that I would hate it – but I don’t.   Actually I love it – once it stops stinking – yep – I went and got me all permed up!   J  Ha haa!   I have been so frustrated with my hair l   Anyway – my husband says he loves me and I’m cute even if I do stink! 

                Okay – I’ll post more later – I have some pictures of the kids updated bedrooms that I wanted to post later – but there was just way too much that went on today!   Sorry about the rambling post – thanks for hanging on until the end.  I bit you adieu!

I was reading through the news this morning since I no longer have television to tune into (not that I did anyway) and read this article about the world's first test tube baby, Louise Brown from England, becoming a first time mother.  I was less than 10 years old when baby Louise was born.  This was a definite step toward some of the scientific advances we have continued to make, for better or worse.  I know that there are many infertile couples that these kinds of breakthroughs have helped - and in those cases it seems like the Lord has used science in the same way that He uses doctors and medical advances to help the sick.  However, I can't help but think of the story from the Bible of Lot's daughters - and how their incestuous relationship with their father, taking matters into their own hands so that they would have offspring brought about two of Israel's biggest enemies.  I wonder where the dividing line is between God's provision of science, and our taking matters into our own hands. 
Just some thoughts that were scrambling around in my brain this morning.  I'd love to hear your opinion.