The Old Schoolhouse Sale!!
14 years ago
Monday, March 30, 2009
History Lesson
Can anyone tell me when the first recorded joke was? What is an Easter Egg??? Bonus points here! Anyone?????? Why do other people laugh when you hit (Your) funny bone???
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
A 10 on the priceless scale
This just in....
Sara: All of the names of God reveal some attribute of His divine character ex. Jehovah and Yahweh.....
Ethan: Yeah like, the Omega and the Alfalfa....
Mom: rumbling belly laugh turning into uncontrolled snickering.
Too much nutritional information going into this boys head!!
Never too much God information though.....
Sara: All of the names of God reveal some attribute of His divine character ex. Jehovah and Yahweh.....
Ethan: Yeah like, the Omega and the Alfalfa....
Mom: rumbling belly laugh turning into uncontrolled snickering.
Too much nutritional information going into this boys head!!
Never too much God information though.....
Monday, March 2, 2009
RABBIT TRAILS
Come on you didn't seriously think it was going to be that easy now did you???????
Whats up Doc??????
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whats up Doc??????
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Beautiful Autumn Days
Take a moment and enjoy the splendor of God's handiwork. Go for a stroll, inhale the crisp Fall air and the scent of wood smoke drifting up into the sky. See the brilliant display of leaves on trees and shrubs. Listen to the sounds of nature. Thank God for this light and momentary life on Earth.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
IT'S HERE.................
Hello to all of our friends and family out in the blogsphere. We wanted to bring you the breaking news........
THE BEREAN TIMES HAS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED!
Look for the September 2008 premier issue over at thebereanacademy.blogspot.com The October issue will follow in the next day or two and then we should have a bi-weekly edition for you after that. Please feel free to leave your comments and/or ideas and watch for the Berean Times to grow and add more features as time goes by.
Thanks for all of your support,
The staff of the Berean Times
THE BEREAN TIMES HAS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED!
Look for the September 2008 premier issue over at thebereanacademy.blogspot.com The October issue will follow in the next day or two and then we should have a bi-weekly edition for you after that. Please feel free to leave your comments and/or ideas and watch for the Berean Times to grow and add more features as time goes by.
Thanks for all of your support,
The staff of the Berean Times
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Okay, Okay!!!!
Hello again to all of our readers out there! Enough already, we know we have been on an extended summer break, but now that school is officially back in session so is our blog. Yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone here at the Hall House is full of energy and expectation for the new school year. We also have an exciting new addition to announce....The Berean Times school newspaper is coming soon to a blog near you. The Berean Times is the official school newspaper for the Berean Academy, which if you didn't know is the name of our domicile based institution of learning! Stay tuned....
Thursday, June 26, 2008
AWESOME ARTICLE
I read this article over at the driver family blog, check them out at www.driverfamilyembassy@blogspot.com
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Sonny Scott Article
SONNY SCOTT:Home-schoolers threaten our cultural comfort
6/8/2008 9:39:01 AMDaily Journal
You see them at the grocery, or in a discount store.
It's a big family by today’s standards - "just like stair steps," as the old folks say. Freshly scrubbed boys with neatly trimmed hair and girls with braids, in clean but unfashionable clothes follow mom through the store as she fills her no-frills shopping list.
There's no begging for gimcracks, no fretting, and no threats from mom. The older watch the younger, freeing mom to go peacefully about her task.
You are looking at some of the estimated 2 million children being home schooled in the U.S., and the number is growing. Their reputation for academic achievement has caused colleges to begin aggressively recruiting them. Savings to the taxpayers in instructional costs are conservatively estimated at $4 billion, and some place the figure as high as $9 billion. When you consider that these families pay taxes to support public schools, but demand nothing from them, it seems quite a deal for the public.
Home schooling parents are usually better educated than the norm, and are more likely to attend worship services. Their motives are many and varied. Some fear contagion from the anti-clericalism, coarse speech, suggestive behavior and hedonistic values that characterize secular schools. Others are concerned for their children’s safety. Some want their children to be challenged beyond the minimal competencies of the public schools. Concern for a theistic world view largely permeates the movement.
Indications are that home schooling is working well for the kids, and the parents are pleased with their choice, but the practice is coming under increasing suspicion, and even official attack, as in California.
Why do we hate (or at least distrust) these people so much?
Methinks American middle-class people are uncomfortable around the home schooled for the same reason the alcoholic is uneasy around the teetotaler.
Their very existence represents a rejection of our values, and an indictment of our lifestyles. Those families are willing to render unto Caesar the things that Caesar’s be, but they draw the line at their children. Those of us who have put our trust in the secular state (and effectively surrendered our children to it) recognize this act of defiance as a rejection of our values, and we reject them in return.
Just as the jealous Chaldeans schemed to bring the wrath of the king upon the Hebrew eunuchs, we are happy to sic the state’s bureaucrats on these “trouble makers.” Their implicit rejection of America’s most venerated idol, Materialism, (a.k.a. “Individualism”) spurs us to heat the furnace and feed the lions.
Young families must make the decision: Will junior go to day care and day school, or will mom stay home and raise him? The rationalizations begin. "A family just can't make it on one income." (Our parents did.) "It just costs so much to raise a child nowadays." (Yeah, if you buy brand-name clothing, pre-prepared food, join every club and activity, and spend half the cost of a house on the daughter’s wedding, it does.) And so, the decision is made. We give up the bulk of our waking hours with our children, as well as the formation of their minds, philosophies, and attitudes, to strangers. We compensate by getting a boat to take them to the river, a van to carry them to Little League, a 2,800-square-foot house, an ATV, a zero-turn Cub Cadet, and a fund to finance a brand-name college education. And most significantly, we claim “our right” to pursue a career for our own "self-fulfillment."
Deep down, however, we know that our generation has eaten its seed corn. We lack the discipline and the vision to deny ourselves in the hope of something enduring and worthy for our posterity. We are tired from working extra jobs, and the looming depression threatens our 401k’s. Credit cards are nearly maxed, and it costs a $100 to fuel the Suburban. Now the kid is raising hell again, demanding the latest Play Station as his price for doing his school work … and there goes that modest young woman in the home-made dress with her four bright-eyed, well-behaved home-schooled children in tow. Wouldn’t you just love to wipe that serene look right off her smug face?
Is it any wonder we hate her so?
Sonny Scott a community columnist, lives on Sparta Road in Chickasaw County and his e-mail address is sonnyscott@yahoo.com.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Sonny Scott Article
SONNY SCOTT:Home-schoolers threaten our cultural comfort
6/8/2008 9:39:01 AMDaily Journal
You see them at the grocery, or in a discount store.
It's a big family by today’s standards - "just like stair steps," as the old folks say. Freshly scrubbed boys with neatly trimmed hair and girls with braids, in clean but unfashionable clothes follow mom through the store as she fills her no-frills shopping list.
There's no begging for gimcracks, no fretting, and no threats from mom. The older watch the younger, freeing mom to go peacefully about her task.
You are looking at some of the estimated 2 million children being home schooled in the U.S., and the number is growing. Their reputation for academic achievement has caused colleges to begin aggressively recruiting them. Savings to the taxpayers in instructional costs are conservatively estimated at $4 billion, and some place the figure as high as $9 billion. When you consider that these families pay taxes to support public schools, but demand nothing from them, it seems quite a deal for the public.
Home schooling parents are usually better educated than the norm, and are more likely to attend worship services. Their motives are many and varied. Some fear contagion from the anti-clericalism, coarse speech, suggestive behavior and hedonistic values that characterize secular schools. Others are concerned for their children’s safety. Some want their children to be challenged beyond the minimal competencies of the public schools. Concern for a theistic world view largely permeates the movement.
Indications are that home schooling is working well for the kids, and the parents are pleased with their choice, but the practice is coming under increasing suspicion, and even official attack, as in California.
Why do we hate (or at least distrust) these people so much?
Methinks American middle-class people are uncomfortable around the home schooled for the same reason the alcoholic is uneasy around the teetotaler.
Their very existence represents a rejection of our values, and an indictment of our lifestyles. Those families are willing to render unto Caesar the things that Caesar’s be, but they draw the line at their children. Those of us who have put our trust in the secular state (and effectively surrendered our children to it) recognize this act of defiance as a rejection of our values, and we reject them in return.
Just as the jealous Chaldeans schemed to bring the wrath of the king upon the Hebrew eunuchs, we are happy to sic the state’s bureaucrats on these “trouble makers.” Their implicit rejection of America’s most venerated idol, Materialism, (a.k.a. “Individualism”) spurs us to heat the furnace and feed the lions.
Young families must make the decision: Will junior go to day care and day school, or will mom stay home and raise him? The rationalizations begin. "A family just can't make it on one income." (Our parents did.) "It just costs so much to raise a child nowadays." (Yeah, if you buy brand-name clothing, pre-prepared food, join every club and activity, and spend half the cost of a house on the daughter’s wedding, it does.) And so, the decision is made. We give up the bulk of our waking hours with our children, as well as the formation of their minds, philosophies, and attitudes, to strangers. We compensate by getting a boat to take them to the river, a van to carry them to Little League, a 2,800-square-foot house, an ATV, a zero-turn Cub Cadet, and a fund to finance a brand-name college education. And most significantly, we claim “our right” to pursue a career for our own "self-fulfillment."
Deep down, however, we know that our generation has eaten its seed corn. We lack the discipline and the vision to deny ourselves in the hope of something enduring and worthy for our posterity. We are tired from working extra jobs, and the looming depression threatens our 401k’s. Credit cards are nearly maxed, and it costs a $100 to fuel the Suburban. Now the kid is raising hell again, demanding the latest Play Station as his price for doing his school work … and there goes that modest young woman in the home-made dress with her four bright-eyed, well-behaved home-schooled children in tow. Wouldn’t you just love to wipe that serene look right off her smug face?
Is it any wonder we hate her so?
Sonny Scott a community columnist, lives on Sparta Road in Chickasaw County and his e-mail address is sonnyscott@yahoo.com.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
EVERYONE LOVES A CONTEST....
Everyone loves a contest, I know I do especially when the prize is from Vision Forum. The contest is being held by a "Ship full o' pirates" click on this link It’s a Hodge-Podge
A great blogging site for sure. I'm relatively new to this whole blogging lifestyle, but it is fun and interesting getting to meet new people,businesses and families through the blogging community. Take a gander and enter the contest yourself! Have fun!
A great blogging site for sure. I'm relatively new to this whole blogging lifestyle, but it is fun and interesting getting to meet new people,businesses and families through the blogging community. Take a gander and enter the contest yourself! Have fun!
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
ALABAMA TRIP
God is sooooooooooo good, the past two months have been a hotbed of activity at the Hall House. We have seen the Lord do a mighty work in our hearts and minds, work, relationships, friends and family. One of the special things that has happened is that Doug and William were able to take a trip to Alabama to see some elderly and much missed relatives, this was such a special trip for them to take. It gave them a chance to have some father son bonding and memory making, they both came home with ear to ear grins on their faces...Priceless... here are some of their special moments. Hope you enjoy I know they did and they are better for the journey.
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