Life calms down 10 Sep!!

It's coming....a week and three days away. That is the day my life calms down to a dull, dreary 45-50 hrs/wk and that's only work. Add on top of that application for graduate school and preparing for the Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP). Oh well, maybe one day life will calm down. To those of you that know me...how long have I asked that question?

On another quick note, my local news is reporting Utah ACT scores are above the national average at a staggering 21.7 average (national average: 21.2). The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) reported homeschoolers had an average of 22.4. Go homeschoolers!!!

The local news was trying to justify why vouchers should be voted down. Argument: Our public schools are better than normal thus vouchers aren't needed. Well, currently I am against vouchers because I don't want to see the government attempt to regulate private schools (or homeschoolers if they were ever included in the voucher program) because they received federal funds for their school. However, it really upsets me that I'm on the same side of the public school teachers.

Back to work!!

Happy B-Day Son!!

It's been a year (or at least close) since the miracle of my boy's arrival. We cannot be happier as God has truly blessed us this past year. He is certainly (as sure as his sisters have demonstrated as well) a "little viper in covenant diaper's" as Jonathon Edwards once wrote of covenant children, but he is one great kid. We cannot be thankful enough and thank God for our lil' quiver.

My family... me (chowmein), my wife (TBD - name...not person), my oldest (Aurora), my second oldest (Cinde - short for Cinderella), and our b-day boy (Dogg) - names changed to protect the not-so-innocent.

Start the posts!

It's time to start my blog. The posts may be short but at least there will be something out there to keep friends and family up-to-date.

We just started homeschooling our oldest and she's having a blast. It's great to have your child beg to do their schoolwork. I know, I know, I should relish this as it might be one of the few times in her life that she does.

A nice quote to start off from a great Southern Presbyterian:

The education of children for God is the most important business done on earth. It is the one business for which the earth exists. To it all politics, all war, all literature, all money-making, ought to be subordinated; and every parent especially ought to feel, every hour of the day, that, next to making his own calling and election sure, this is the end for which he is kept alive by God--this is his task on earth.

--R.L. Dabney