Here’s an interesting way to ring in the New Year! You would need to make sure to dress warm. It’s a 5K Run. Here’s some info.

Our family had the privilege of receiving a Christmas gift pack from our church. One of the items the basket contained was a Christmas music CD. Yesterday my husband played it for everyone. We loved it. It was so peaceful. A man named Mark Tindle plays soft peaceful music on a dulcimer. This morning he did a music special in front of the church with a harpist playing the song What Child is this? Here’s the Tindle family’s website where you can hear a sampling of the music. There is bluegrass singing family there also. They are the Downing Family.

I read A Christmas Carol out loud to my family this year. I loved it . . . I hope my kids at least kept with the storyline. It is so dramatic and there are emotional highs and lows all through it. No wonder it is a classic that is always pulled out at Christmastime.
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.~Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Here are some fun sites to help us know more:
Read Aloud @ the site of Wired For Books
A Christmas Carol Quiz @ Charles Dickens, Gad’s Hill Place.
Here is trivia from the same place.
The timeline of Charles Dickens life

Here’s a gift for you, some holiday cheer and a smile, guaranteed.
ABC News Person of the week is a great guy. His name is Lewis H. Days. He’s 74-years-old and lives in North Carolina. He repairs and gives aways bikes to kids. Here’s his excellent story (:

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Someday I want to go see a broadway play. I would love to take Danny and we could go see this play, The Screw Tape Letters. It’s at the Saint Clements theatre in New York City beginning January 5.
My husband introduced me to C.S. Lewis when we were dating. He is his favorite author. The Screwtape Letters are a series of letters by a senior demon to a junior demon in which the older gives advice on how to tempt people to sin.
Max McLean who plays the main character and who is well-known for reading the Bible. He is on the Our Daily Bread website.

His talent can’t be overlooked nor can it be taken for granted because his painting are commonly scene. He is a man to be studied. The site ArtRenewal.org has large images of his pictures. His paintings need to be studied for all their details. Here’s some information I found with a family guide on NRM.org:

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Fifteen to twenty years ago I had family members who fell into the belief of some Charismatic Christians that you could ask God for anything and He would do it. If you prayed for health, riches or a Cadillac hard enough and had enough faith God loved you so much you would get it! Oh my! how shallow. This is not true.

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I found this quote on Mrs. Happy Housewife’s site. It’s a good one because it offers advice from a former president, the historical first! It also encourages citizenship and then reading and the arts. . .
“To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.”
-George Washington

The Discovery website has simple science activities. Here are some good ideas to help children learn about bacteria.

Here’s a website that provides grammar worksheets and rules handouts called ABCTeach.com. I was especially impressed with one worksheet which mixed the classic Alice In Wonderland with choosing the correct usage of the pronoun she/her.
Here’s the pronoun exercise:

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