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Thursday, 28 February 2008
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Currently Reading
Borrower of the Night: The First Vicky Bliss Mystery
By Elizabeth Peters
see relatedFollowing Rachel's lead
If I were a shoe, I'd be Mary Janes
If I were a city, I'd be Manhattan, KS
If I were a season, I'd be Fall
If I were a car, I’d be a VW bug
If I were a vegetable, I’d be a potato
If I were a fruit, I’d be someone else
If I were a color, I’d be pink
If I were furniture, I’d be a loveseat
If I were a country, I’d be Germany
If I were a beverage, I'd be coffee
If I were clothing, I'd be a hand knit wool sweater
If I were weather, I'd be a crisp Fall day
If I were a dessert, I’d be cheesecake
If I were a plant, I’d be honeysuckle
Saturday, 23 February 2008
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Currently Watching
The Prince of Egypt
By Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum
see relatedFly on the Wall Report
Day two of crashing on the loveseat included watching The Prince of Egypt with Ellie, again with her thorough and intensive commentary/questioning. It was interesting to see her making the connections between what she was seeing and what she has heard read to her, preached to her, and spoken of with her. I could tell she was working through the this is a movie, so it's not real, but yet this is real thing. Brain cells were bursting left and right.
Ellie: Why is he mad?
Mom: That's Pharoah, honey, the King of Egypt. He's angry because God wants to rescue the Hebrews.
Ellie: WHAT ARE ALL THOSE?
Mom: Frogs, bugs, and other things God sent to judge the Egyptians. Those are the plagues.
Ellie: Gross.
Mom: Yes.
Ellie: What are they doing?
Mom: That's the first Passover. They're smearing the blood of a lamb on their doorposts so that God will see it and spare them when he comes for the next plague.
Ellie: Why is he sad?
Mom: Because his son is dead. Remember the blood on the doorway? If the house didn't obey God's instructions, the firstborn son in each house died. God is rescuing his people.
Ellie: Why are they happy?
Mom: Because they're leaving Egypt. God rescued them and is taking them to the land he promised them.
Ellie: There's a lake in the way.
Mom: That's the Red Sea. Wait and see what God does next.
Ellie: WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
Mom: That's Pharoah and his armies. Pharoah is so angry at God and the Hebrews that he wants to kill them all. He thinks they're trapped against the Red Sea.
Ellie: Woah.
Mom: See? God is making a way for them to pass...he's protecting his people.
Ellie: Woah.
Ellie: NOW WHAT?
Mom: Well, the Egyptians chased them into the Red Sea and God is making the water crash back on them so they can't hurt his people.
Ellie: That's a GREAT idea!
Friday, 22 February 2008
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Fly on the Wall Report
I'm sick again...yuckko. Yesterday I woke up with a fever and Andy recommended that I sack out on the loveseat all day and watch Jane Austen movies, and maybe knit a little if I felt up to it. He is going to make an excellent husband someday.
Anyway, at one point I took him up on his offer to put in a movie for me (don't ask me why I can't start a movie myself...I'm incompetent) and I got to watch Pride & Prejudice (the good version
). Ellie joined me for quite a bit of it and asked a lot of questions about who people were and what they were doing. She got very interested once Lizzy was touring Pemberley.Ellie: What's that??!
Mom: Mr. Darcy's house.
Ellie. Wow. That's big.
Ellie: Who's that?
Mom: Mr. Bingley.
Ellie: He's very happy.
Mom: Yes, he usually is.
Ellie: Why is he happy?
Mom: He's just a cheerful person.
Ellie: Who's that?
Mom: Miss Bingley. She's Mr. Bingley's sister.
Ellie: Is she bad? She looks cranky.
Mom: She's not a very nice person.
Ellie: Cranky is bad. Who is that?
Mom: Mr. Darcy.
Ellie: He's manly.
I think she's pretty much got the gist of the story, don't you?
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
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The Tan-Ram-Man
Thanks for all the cheers for Ellie! She read her book today!
Jonathan was in charge of photographing the occaision.
We are all so proud of her!
And Katie is pleased as punch that she is on her last lesson of Saxon 3 math today...she starts using the textbook and writing out all her own problems tomorrow!
Celebratory apple pie!
MrsBeorn
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