Homework!

Jade is in 3rd grade, she just turned 9. These are questions from her math homework: Which is an example of the Commutative Property? (with 4 choices) Which is an example of the Associative Property? (with 4 choices) and Which figure appears to be congruent to this quadrilateral? WTF?! She's NINE YEARS OLD!! I ...don't even understand the QUESTIONS let alone how to help her find the ANSWERS!!

God wants you to know

On this day, God wants you to know... that you are beautiful. Even when you feel ugly or depressed or guilty or ashamed, there is an inner spark in you which is light. This light is your beauty. This light is your reflection of God. You are a child of God, thus you are beautiful.

Damn Stump

Brilliant words from the mouth of my almost-18 year old nephew Tylor: "How many times must I fall over the same stump before I open my eyes to it and avoid it?" My eyes have been opened and I will NEVER fall over that damn stump again, ever.

Courage

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful...for in movement there is life, and in change there is power". Alan Cohen

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

Brylins take on an ever familiar song: "Kydrun and Josie sitting in the tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, First comes Love, Then comes Friends, Then comes baby drinking alcohol!!" WTH?!

God wants you to know

On this day, God wants you to know... that 'decision' is only wishful thinking until you take that first irreversible step. You can tell yourself that you have already decided, that nothing now can stop you, but if that step backwards is so much safer than that step forwards, what will hold you true to your path when the going gets tough? Sometimes, the right thing to do is to take that first irreversible step, the one after which you cannot go back. And now, for you, is one of those times.

The truth never stops being devistating.