Back to piano class today, which Madison enjoys all the time. A twist: Daddy made a mistake and had Madison practicing a tune with the wrong chord. This put Madison's hand positions in the wrong place, which sort of put a sudden bit of worry on Daddy when the class actually started reviewing. But Madison didn't panic - and in fact, she quickly adapted and got her hands in the right positioning. This is a big deal, because the 3-5-7 hand position is different with different chords. The C chord doesn't bother with black keys, whereas other ones do. Like I said, Madison adjusted a little quicker than I ever could. Despite a week's practice in the wrong direction, she was able to shift gears, so to speak.
We got home, and Daddy decided to stay there. We actually cooked out tonight, a huge meal at that. Burgers, and portobello mushrooms on the grill too! Plus corn on the cob, and potato salad - it all made for a pretty massive, and pretty tasty, meal.
We practiced our sight words some more, which Madison seems to be nailing. Of course, she sort of memorizes things in a particular order sometimes, so we have to surprise her a bit in the order we ask her certain words. But she's almost there with getting all 95 of the sight words for the first quarter. In fact, Mommy quizzed her on the words for the next quarter, and she's already gotten most of them. She's in good shape for recognizing sight words. Next step will be actually SPELLING them!
Yeah, we went back to Middle Earth again tonight. Let's see, where are we? Yes, we lost Boromir tonight. The orcs apparently are pretty deadly with giant bananas. But we met his brother and Gollum too. Madison is excited about this game, and it tickles Daddy that someday she'll read this, or review it in school, and she'll already be pretty familiar with the characters - in Lego format. If she ever reads these books, she'll of course picture these lego block characters acting everything out.
Tennis, anyone? Mommy signed Madison up for tennis classes today. These will be on Wednesdays, completing a busy three-day sweep: Piano, tennis, and ballet. She'll certainly keep busy. But Mommy and Daddy will too!
The world news is troubling: Our nation's involvement with a War in Syria. Of course, it's been like this for ages. With my limited knowledge, as I see it: suddenly a ruthless dictator is killing children in a different way. Before, it was okay because the bad guys were using plain old bullets and explosives to kill people. But now, our nation has to get involved because the bad guys are using chemical weapons to kill people. See the difference there?
So now is the time for the rest of the world to determine if they were just bluffing about doing something about Syria, or are they really going to go in and do something. This has been going on for years. But one of the rules about world involvement is that it takes years to actually do anything, particularly anything productive.
Then there's crazy Iran. If our nation goes in to attack Iran's friends in Syria, they say they'll retaliate by attacking a completely different country: Israel. So Israeli people are buying gas masks because Iran says it will launch stuff on them. Which means we'll suck in two more countries in a larger scale war.
Here's the thing: whenever Israel is involved in any war, it's the end of the world.
That's the slight spirit in the air right now - everyone wondering if this is the big one? Anytime Israel is involved in conflict, many folks start studying their prophetic Bible calendars, trying to see how things fit in. So how does this fit in? As with every Israeli conflict the past fifty-something years, I have no idea! It's all interesting, though somewhat troublesome when it happens, and yet we have to keep our peace by remembering to trust God in all things. Still, it doesn't take much to start a world war. In 1917, one man was assassinated, and two world wars followed. The cost can never be calculated, yet the end result was a new world, including the return of the nation of Israel.
This brings us to the slight edge to our recent troubles: this time around China and Russia are apparently warning us not to get involved. Or what? What are you going to do about it if we do go in? And are you actually suggesting you are in favor of using chemical weapons on children?
So here we go again with the cycle. It's been a few years since we've seen tension in the Middle East, but it is as inevitable as the sun coming up, or setting. There are all sorts of things causing economic turmoil here, so a war in the Middle East isn't going to help much. It's that season, and it's time to get ready once more.
When we look at Madison, we always wonder what kind of world we're leaving for our children. We see these sorts of conflicts, and we see a seemingly unstoppable generational decline.
Tonight Daddy was tired, but he made sure he read the Bible to his little girl before bed. She was asking for that, and he was grateful to hear it. We read about Jesus growing with wisdom - Luke 2:52 - and our prayer tonight is that Madison would grow with that wisdom, and a heart that longs to walk with Him.
We got home, and Daddy decided to stay there. We actually cooked out tonight, a huge meal at that. Burgers, and portobello mushrooms on the grill too! Plus corn on the cob, and potato salad - it all made for a pretty massive, and pretty tasty, meal.
We practiced our sight words some more, which Madison seems to be nailing. Of course, she sort of memorizes things in a particular order sometimes, so we have to surprise her a bit in the order we ask her certain words. But she's almost there with getting all 95 of the sight words for the first quarter. In fact, Mommy quizzed her on the words for the next quarter, and she's already gotten most of them. She's in good shape for recognizing sight words. Next step will be actually SPELLING them!
Yeah, we went back to Middle Earth again tonight. Let's see, where are we? Yes, we lost Boromir tonight. The orcs apparently are pretty deadly with giant bananas. But we met his brother and Gollum too. Madison is excited about this game, and it tickles Daddy that someday she'll read this, or review it in school, and she'll already be pretty familiar with the characters - in Lego format. If she ever reads these books, she'll of course picture these lego block characters acting everything out.
Tennis, anyone? Mommy signed Madison up for tennis classes today. These will be on Wednesdays, completing a busy three-day sweep: Piano, tennis, and ballet. She'll certainly keep busy. But Mommy and Daddy will too!
The world news is troubling: Our nation's involvement with a War in Syria. Of course, it's been like this for ages. With my limited knowledge, as I see it: suddenly a ruthless dictator is killing children in a different way. Before, it was okay because the bad guys were using plain old bullets and explosives to kill people. But now, our nation has to get involved because the bad guys are using chemical weapons to kill people. See the difference there?
So now is the time for the rest of the world to determine if they were just bluffing about doing something about Syria, or are they really going to go in and do something. This has been going on for years. But one of the rules about world involvement is that it takes years to actually do anything, particularly anything productive.
Then there's crazy Iran. If our nation goes in to attack Iran's friends in Syria, they say they'll retaliate by attacking a completely different country: Israel. So Israeli people are buying gas masks because Iran says it will launch stuff on them. Which means we'll suck in two more countries in a larger scale war.
Here's the thing: whenever Israel is involved in any war, it's the end of the world.
That's the slight spirit in the air right now - everyone wondering if this is the big one? Anytime Israel is involved in conflict, many folks start studying their prophetic Bible calendars, trying to see how things fit in. So how does this fit in? As with every Israeli conflict the past fifty-something years, I have no idea! It's all interesting, though somewhat troublesome when it happens, and yet we have to keep our peace by remembering to trust God in all things. Still, it doesn't take much to start a world war. In 1917, one man was assassinated, and two world wars followed. The cost can never be calculated, yet the end result was a new world, including the return of the nation of Israel.
This brings us to the slight edge to our recent troubles: this time around China and Russia are apparently warning us not to get involved. Or what? What are you going to do about it if we do go in? And are you actually suggesting you are in favor of using chemical weapons on children?
So here we go again with the cycle. It's been a few years since we've seen tension in the Middle East, but it is as inevitable as the sun coming up, or setting. There are all sorts of things causing economic turmoil here, so a war in the Middle East isn't going to help much. It's that season, and it's time to get ready once more.
When we look at Madison, we always wonder what kind of world we're leaving for our children. We see these sorts of conflicts, and we see a seemingly unstoppable generational decline.
Tonight Daddy was tired, but he made sure he read the Bible to his little girl before bed. She was asking for that, and he was grateful to hear it. We read about Jesus growing with wisdom - Luke 2:52 - and our prayer tonight is that Madison would grow with that wisdom, and a heart that longs to walk with Him.
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