Riverside 5000 5k

Our family awoke at about 5:30 this morning. We had a big morning ahead. We were running a 5k. There were grumbles and not wanting to go but I knew when the race was over we could all feel good about the run.
Danny fixed scrambled eggs. Three of our kids didn’t eat. They wanted something different and it didn’t bother them that they needed some fuel for the 5k.
It was the Riverside5000. Adults cost $25 and got a cool runner t-shirt. All four of our kids were free because they were under 18. They didn’t get the shirt.

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Christina Rossetti Poem

Taken from Leaves of Life @ OnePlace.com
Heaven overreaches you and me,
And all earth’s gardens and her graves.
Look up with me, until we see
The day break and the shadows flee.
What though to-night wrecks you and me
If so to-morrow saves?

Modern Loaves And Fishes Story

Recently, a story came out of Egypt similar to the loaves and fishes story of the Bible where Jesus blessed the food and it miraculously multiplied so that everyone would get enough to eat!
The story is from World Net Daily.

Bob Jones Homeschool Curriculum

There are several sites on the internet that can work together to help you get the best prices on Bob Jones Christian Learning Curriculum.
The BJU Press site gives you the list for each subjects. There are also kits available. For example, a Sophomore distant learner would use this kit.
The site Christian Book Distributors provides info and prices.
Half.com is a good place to start looking for reduced prices. You can search for your book by ISBN here.
Then there are some many other good sites which offer a big variety of homeschool curriculum such as ThisLittlePiggyStaysHome.com and HomeschoolClassifieds.com.

AAA Parent Taught Driving

Here’s a site which will help you teach your teen how to drive. The course is from AAA.

C.S. Lewis Quote

In 1959 English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter:
‘When we lose one blessing,
another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.’

Good Deeds Left Undone

Taken from Streams In The Desert @ OnePlace.com
What am I to do?
I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good work, therefore, any kindness, or any service I can render to any soul of man or animal let me do it now.
Let me not neglect or defer it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
–An Old Quaker Saying
It isn’t the thing you do, dear,
It’s the thing you leave undone,
Which gives you the bitter heartache
At the setting of the sun;
The tender word unspoken,
The letter you did not write,
The flower you might have sent, dear,
Are your haunting ghosts at night.
The stone you might have lifted
Out of your brother’s way,
The bit of heartsome counsel
You were hurried too much to say;
The loving touch of the hand, dear,
The gentle and winsome tone,
That you had no time or thought for,
With troubles enough of your own.
These little acts of kindness,
So easily out of mind,
These chances to be angels,
Which even mortals find
They come in night and silence,
Each chill reproachful wraith,
When hope is faint and flagging,
And a blight has dropped on faith.
For life is all too short, dear.
And sorrow is all too great,
To suffer our slow compassion
That tarries until too late.
And it’s not the thing you do, dear,
It’s the thing you leave undone,
Which gives you the bitter heartache,
At the setting of the sun.
–Adelaide Proctor
Give what you have; to someone it may be better than you dare to think. –Longfellow