Eleven years ago today, the world changed in front of our eyes. Bless those who died, those who have suffered since and those are left with internal and external scars. United we stand.
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Good morning everyone! I agree with your comment above, Marshall.
Back to work today, so glad to have my job.
I remember the cartoon showing us shedding the hyphens that so many put before their title of AMERICAN. I wish we could all be just plain Americans in an extraordinary way.
Good morning! PQ and I have a busy day mapped out.
A minor religious group had a bumper sticker a few years ago that read, “One World, One People”. I put one on my car and the local rednecks thought I was promoting interracial marriage. I still have one of those bumper stickers. We are all children of God, created in His image.
I personally have no issues with interracial marriage. The verse in the bible that speaks to being unequally yoked is a warning for believers to beware marrying an unbeliever (no matter what color.) We had a discussion about this in our staff meeting yesterday. Our minister of music has a brother who is married to a young lady from the Bahamas (I think, one of the island places anyway.) They met at seminary. Their families are racially very different, but they believe the same things on an eternal basis.
I don’t have a problem with it either. But the bumper sticker was on my car about 30 years ago and the rednecks weren’t very tolerant then. It stayed on my car anyway.
I’m hard headed that way. Having a Haley Barbour bumper sticker on my car cause a client to drop me at a cost of $25,000. It hurt, but we made it anyway.
Good morning folks.
I’m in total agreement with PM & MrsH.
Mornin
Amen to all.
morning gang
Mornin. Anybody have any great ideas on how to motivate a 16 year old to actually care about school work and try to pass classes? Is it even possible to motivate them? Kiddo is a smart kid, but doesn’t want to put forth the effort to make good grades. She has two classes right now where her grades are D’s, and dangerously close to F’s. Her social life has now come to an abrupt end and use of the car is next if things don’t improve. The cell phone is being taken away from her during study time, which now last several hours a day. She’s not speaking to me, but I don’t really care. If she wants to make anything of herself in this life, she needs to start caring about grades. Her daddy told her last night to forget about the pricey private college she wants to attend — it’s now her choice: Hinds or Holmes. Either way, she gets to live at home … with us. That certainly didn’t make her happy, but why should we pay big money for her to fail her classes?
Molly I have no suggestions since no teens in my house, but wondering if something us going on with friends, peer pressure, or if a dislike for the teachers of these subjects that she is having problems with. I had an English teacher my Junior year. He made me mad about something so I quit trying. Then I don’t know what changed my attitude–probably my parents–I decided to show him and passed the class with A’s, B’s. I still didn’t like him but I showed him.
I know she REALLY dislikes her Algebra II teacher and that’s her worst class. Algebra has always been hard for her and she just doesn’t have the drive to want to work at it. My impression of this teacher is that she doesn’t know how to teach anyway, and that certainly doesn’t help. The teacher is only part of the problem; Kiddo could put forth some effort to figure it out. I’m looking for a tutor for her because today’s algebra doesn’t come close to resembling the algebra from 30 years ago. What they do now can’t be done without the use of expensive fancy calculators.
I barely got out of Algebra 1 and 2 with a low C. The calculator today is sometimes over my head.
I don’t think I finished Algebra II in high school. It drove me nuts. Like my daughter, my feelings were “I Will Never Use This!!!” then I went to nursing school. SURPRISE! Math for Meds is nothing but algebra. Once I found a solid, visible use for it, I aced the course. I honestly think that’s how I have been able to help my lil Chickadee. Last night she had 20 problems-I was on #12 in just a few minutes. I helped her for over 2 hours last night, and several times before in the past week. I will say this about the calculators: WHERE WAS THIS WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL?! LOL
Almost lunch!!! Is it nap time yet?
I’m always ready for nap time.
I couldn’t sleep, but I have been downright lazy today. You’re welcome. (kidding)
I had some weird medical/personal stuff happen last night that I have to log before I forget the what/when/where. For ONCE (make a note!!) I won’t bore you with details. I’m just glad to be here today!
There is a small plane that keeps circling over downtown Jtown and it’s making me nervous.
Coop that would worry me too! Hopefully it will move on down the road.
How’s your daughter doing? I don’t know the details, but divorce hurts in places most don’t see unless they have been there. I hope Bug is dealing with this okay. Therapy is a wonderful thing if your daughter’s insurance covers it. Once I started, I wanted to kick myself for not going twenty years sooner. My life would certainly have been a lot different. I’m thinking about her-and you. My mom still cried over my divorce well after I moved on.
Checking in. Molly, I’ve been spending at least 2 hours every night on pre-Algebra with M. The wheels are now turning, and she’s starting to move up. Her test grades in there are horrid, but she does fine on homework. Now to get her out of the habit of negative self-talk. Why are girls SO bad about that from about age 10 to eternity???
Had a rough night last night, and today has not been too exciting. I’ve read “where were you on 9/11/01?” stories so much today, I look like my allergies have kicked up; but no, it’s real tears.
MrsH, I read Baby Jane’s fb page with tears running down my face. She is very blessed to have the parents God gave her.
If Algebra II was about solving for “X” I would be all over it and could help her all day long. Sadly, Algebra II has nothing to do with that poor little X. It’s all graphing and figuring how long it takes a boiling potato to reach a certain temperature. When I was taking the class, apparently in the Dark Ages, calculators were seldom used and then they were just basic functions. I didn’t need a $125 calculator for class. Good thing, too, cause my parents would have never forked over that cash.
I think when they get to high school here, the high dollar calculators are issued with the textbooks. One perk of being a small school.
Anybody heard from Barb?
Not this chick!
I’ve had my hands in diesel fuesl twice today and now I seem to have a rash on them.
#workproblems
Has anybody heard from CornPop/Orville lately?
Like everybody else, I’ve been thinking about where I was and what I was doing on 9/11. It caused a lot of changes for me business/personal wise. Especially business wise.
Thinkin’ about y’all(coop, clucky, msblondie).
Evening everyone. Barb was to have some doctor appointments this week. I can’t remember if the first part or latter part. I have wondered too about Orville and CornPop in hopes she would post.