Like I said last Sunday, I participated in a challenge two weeks ago. Here is the challenge sketch:
And here is the page I did:
I didn't win, but you can go here to see all the contenders...
Anyway, the challenge this week was to use contrasting colors from opposite sides of the color wheel. I choose blue and red-orange:
I also scrapped four other pages. This was an ice skating trip from last December:
I love these pictures! My sis-in-law snizzle-sis took them at her house last fall and they have always reminded me of how JOY feels.
This page is four misc. photos from last year:
This is the second page of a two-page layout of my brother's homecoming to his base in Germany last September after a 15 month deployment in Iraq. I started the first page, but the electricity went out at our church during craft night Friday just as I was starting it. I'll get it done this week.
And here is the page I did:
I didn't win, but you can go here to see all the contenders...
Anyway, the challenge this week was to use contrasting colors from opposite sides of the color wheel. I choose blue and red-orange:
I also scrapped four other pages. This was an ice skating trip from last December:
I love these pictures! My sis-in-law snizzle-sis took them at her house last fall and they have always reminded me of how JOY feels.
This page is four misc. photos from last year:
This is the second page of a two-page layout of my brother's homecoming to his base in Germany last September after a 15 month deployment in Iraq. I started the first page, but the electricity went out at our church during craft night Friday just as I was starting it. I'll get it done this week.
I'm starting to exercise again. Yay! I won't be running for a while, but I still manage to get a 45 minute walk in most days. And I didn't gain any weight while I was down, something I was worried about. In fact, I lost 2-3 pounds. And despite my harrowing doctor's checkup a couple of weeks ago, I am healing really well. I feel almost back to normal.
I just gotta say how wonderful I feel to have a family like mine. Everyone is healthy and God has allowed me to stay home with my kids as well as have a wonderful, supportive husband. I am so blessed. And my kids are the sweetest!
OK, that's all for now. Maybe I'll come up with something witty or at least interesting later, but for now, Sniz out!
I just gotta say how wonderful I feel to have a family like mine. Everyone is healthy and God has allowed me to stay home with my kids as well as have a wonderful, supportive husband. I am so blessed. And my kids are the sweetest!
OK, that's all for now. Maybe I'll come up with something witty or at least interesting later, but for now, Sniz out!
The quote below really struck me personally - Sometimes I think the public school system needs some serious help.
“The notion of dyslexia as a discrete entity has provided the basis for a special-education policy that provides services only to those who satisfy what are seen as specific, unvarying criteria… Children who do not meet these arbitrarily imposed criteria may still require and benefit from special help.”
“By not recognizing shades of gray represented by struggling children who haven’t yet failed enough to meet a particular criterion, schools may be underidentifying many children who will go on to experience significant reading problems.”
Data from the Connecticut Longitudinal Study for Dyslexia, p.28 Overcoming Dyslexia, Sally Shaywitz, MD
“By not recognizing shades of gray represented by struggling children who haven’t yet failed enough to meet a particular criterion, schools may be underidentifying many children who will go on to experience significant reading problems.”
Data from the Connecticut Longitudinal Study for Dyslexia, p.28 Overcoming Dyslexia, Sally Shaywitz, MD
The public school system likes to wait until a child is failing before they receive "assistance." This does seem to make sense on a basic level. I am sure that they cannot "afford" to help everyone - so they are holding out for the most "needy." However - with dyslexia- early intervention is crucial. It is the difference between a child being able to read at "grade level" - or ALWAYS - (into adulthood) struggling. Natalie is doing "allright" in reading right now - (she is at a 2.2- she should be at a 3.0) but everywhere I've read - the third grade is the "brick wall" of reading. (Natalie enters the third grade this fall.) I am hoping that I "caught" this in time. She is starting her tutoring a year past what would have been optimal - simply because a year ago I hadn't even considered dyslexia- I simply thought she was a little slow.
Speaking of children with dyslexia:
“A little knowledge and careful analysis of the child’s case would soon make it clear that the difficulty experienced was due to a defect in the visual memory of words and letters; the child would then be regarded in the proper light as one with a congenital defect in a particular area of the brain, a defect which, however, can often be remedied by persevering and persistent training. The sooner the true nature of the defect is recognized, the better the chances of the child’s improvement.”
p. 22 Overcoming Dyslexia, Sally Shaywitz, MD
“A little knowledge and careful analysis of the child’s case would soon make it clear that the difficulty experienced was due to a defect in the visual memory of words and letters; the child would then be regarded in the proper light as one with a congenital defect in a particular area of the brain, a defect which, however, can often be remedied by persevering and persistent training. The sooner the true nature of the defect is recognized, the better the chances of the child’s improvement.”
p. 22 Overcoming Dyslexia, Sally Shaywitz, MD
In a Time Magazine Article, entitled: The Church and Gay Marriage: Are Mormons Misunderstood? Elder Ballard is quoted as saying:
"Our Message for the World," says M. Russell Ballard Jr., one of the 14 apostles
just under Monson, "is that we are His children, we lived with Him before we
came here ... we're striving to keep His commandments so that when we die we can
be entitled to receive all the blessings that the Heavenly Father has for His
children." Ballard adds emphatically, "People like to make it complex. But it's
really pretty simple."
Shalom Phylliss Schlafly:
While your WorldNetDaily article entitled Why Women Are Unhappy is factual and informative, there yet exists another element to the equation that you have not even come to imagine with respect to the destructive reality of Feminism. In order to lay a brief foundation that would expedite your enlightenment which will assist you in understanding the esoteric truths that have been long lost by our modern society: On the subheading entitled The Mystery Of The Gospel at http://TheThreeLies.com#mystery , it is clearly demonstrated that the inner core of disciples possessed an esoteric knowledge that could not be reveled to the multitude of people whose minds had not been prepared to even contemplate spiritual realities that modern quantum physics has only now begun to shed light upon. Thus, what man thinks he knows, is only the tip of the iceberg of an almost incomprehensible higher reality soul and spirit.
If you can come to terms with the facts presented at the above subheading that there is more to life than what meets the (carnal) eye of man, then let me take this esoteric fact one step further and state that there is a higher purpose to Marriage than physical sex and the propagation of the species. And while there is a great deal of important knowledge and concepts between the above subheading, and the one entitled The Cosmic Ovum And Sperm (see http://TheThreeLies.com#CosmicOvumAndSperm , it is here at this subheading where you will find an esoteric reality of the sexes and Marriage that our modern Feminist driven culture is simply not prepared to confront. Further, you will also find out why homosexuality in the Bible is portrayed as a sin.
Mankind, as portrayed in the parable of the lost prodigal son, is imbued with freewill -- and while, as the divine offspring of Creator-God, man can delay his ultimate Destiny, the exercise of freewill does not permit him the power to negate the very purpose and objective of life which he must eventually come to terms with. And it is not until you come to understand the innate power and higher purpose of gender to bring this higher Destiny about in the threefold process of birth, that you can even begin to grasp why most women feel a great void in their lives. And while the traditional Church religion had created one type of void that opened the door to Feminism, in not understanding the reality of the first void, Feminism only created a much greater void that served to deepen the emptiness that many women, because of their elevated intuitive powers of mind, experience more than men. If you continue reading the article, it will be revealed to you that we exist as an embryonic image of our higher soul-self -- and women who possess the innate mental ability to more easily connect intuitively with their inner source of being and higher spiritual reality that our culture has alienated mankind from, will continue to remain unhappy, because they not only intuitively know that there is more to life -- but they know that they are more than what the superficial role as a culturized physical woman permits them to be in this world. And thus, they are therefore driven to seek a higher reality that is near impossible to achieve, because of the philosophical and cultural restraints they are forced to live under at present. And while it can be said that they very much hold the feminine key to the ultimate success of all of mankind, the fact that they are culturally barred from utilizing this key -- even though they intuitively suspect that they possess the key -- is what makes them inherently miserable in all their worldly endeavors which continue to immerse them in a void of forced and constrained emptiness.
There is an answer, but few people are willing to pursue it beyond the limits of man's cultural thinking-box that he has encased himself in.
GodSpeed in TheWay,
Allan Cronshaw
PO Box 780
Graham, NC 27253
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