After All, They Come Cheaper by the Dozen!

Yes, we are here! We are alive! We are doing pretty good! Busy, very tired at the end of the day but pretty well, all the same. Haircuts are done on time (or nearly so, :)our garden is growing quite well, Viv recently learned to ride her little bike without training wheels, and we can barely tear her away from it long enough to eat! Being as busy as I am, I still find time to read and recently picked up Cheaper by Dozen and found it to be such a cute book. Filled with so much humor and the fun of large family living I found it to be a book I will want to read to my siblings. The following is one of my favorite stories:

"Dad himself used to joke that he couldn't even tell us 12 kids apart. He even boasted about one time when Mother was away on a lecturing tour and he was in charge of the household. Things went fairly smoothly and Father had us all lined up outside on the front porch when Mother arrived. "How was everything, dear?" asked Mother. "Fine, just fine," answered Father. "But this one here gave me quite a bit of trouble," he said as he pointed towards the offender. "But as soon as I gave him a good thrashing he was as good as gold." Mother, who was never ruffled at anything, calmly replied, "But he isn't one of ours dear, he's from next door."

Tagged... Again!

I was tagged by Moriah:

The rules are...
1. Pick up the nearest book- it has to have at least 123 pages.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five other people.

The book that is closest to me now is my Science book, titled Science of the Physical Creation, by Abeka. The four sentences read,

"These reactions may be described as A +BC - AC + B. In a single-displacement reaction, the element B in the compound BC is replaced, or displaced by element A; the result is a new compound, AC, with element B left on its own. For example, the bromine in the compound sodium bromide (NaBr) may be replaced by chlorine (Cl), yielding sodium chloride (NaCl) and bromine: 2 NaBr + Cl2 - 2NaCl + Br2. In a more spectacular single-displacement reaction, aluminum (Al) displaces iron from a type of iron oxide ("rust," Fe2O3) when a powdered mixture of rust and aluminum is ignited: Fe2O3 + 2 Al - Al2 O3 + 2 Fe.

My science book isn't always so hard to understand, its just that page number 123 fell into the chemistry unit! I don't think I'm going to tag anyone else.

*Note* I recently went to Florida for a few days, and I'm hoping that tomorrow will give me a chance to post about my trip.

Bruchko

What happens when a nineteen-year old young man from Minnesota leaves his home to go to the Native Indians of the jungle in South America with a desire to bring the Gospel to them? This is what we found out recently as our mom read the book Bruchko to us. Bruce Olson left the USA to go to Brazil with a heart to evangelize the Indian tribes in South America. While in Brazil, Bruce learned about the Motilone tribe and felt quickened that they were the ones that God wanted to send him to. The Motilones were an ancient tribe of Indians living deep in the Columbian jungle; they were known for their fierceness to outsiders. Oil company workers testing the soil on Motilone land had either been shot at with long, sharp arrows or had mysteriously disappeared to never return. Bruce knew all this but still wanted to go and minister to these people. After traveling for days, weeks and months he finally contacted the Motilones - but not on pleasant circumstances! Bruce was shot in the leg by a five foot long arrow and then surrounded by tribal men. He was taken to their communal home where, surprisingly, they kept him alive and fed him. When he told them his name, they could not pronounce it properly. Instead, what came out was ‘Bruchko’ and this became his Motilone name.
This book is so fascinating and I encourage you to read it if you haven’t already, and even if you have, read it again because you will surely be blessed!