Welcome to Amber! Good to "meet" you. :-)
So here are the things on Andrea's list that I share, followed by anything of mine that's different:
Cooking/baking
Healthy Eating - and eating in general/ Nutrition
Reading!!
Education--all the political stuff and theories and research
Homeschool Educating
Blogging
Parenting
Journaling
Basketball & Track
5K running
piano
politics
travel
gardening
art/art study (no, I'm not an artist)
architecture
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Interesting Interests
Umm, Genghis Khan hands down. Andrea, really, Napolean? He didn't get half so far as Genghis. :)
At Andrea's request, here's a few of my interests:
At Andrea's request, here's a few of my interests:
- Family History--the highlight of my summer this year is that I'm going to the Family History Conference at BYU!!! YESSSSSSSS!
- Baking--desserts mostly, but baking in general is my favorite type of cooking
- Arts and Crafts, occasionally sewing--though I stink at it
- Floral Design-- I wish I had a chance to do this more
- Reading
- Travel (Can wished for hobbies be listed?)
- Archaeology (I'm assuming that wished for interests can be listed.)
- Watching foreign and independent films
- Gardening
- Yogurt making (Okay, I only made it once, but it was delicious.)
- Eating and trying new ethnic foods. My favorite is Middle Eastern. I love hummous and tabooli and chicken schwarma and lebni and, well, I'll stop there.
- Learning Spanish. (This is a joke.)
- Cultural events--I drag my kids to as many free or cheap ones as I can afford.
The end. I also like sports and camping and hiking. I wish I did more of that. I have a lot of wishful interests. My husband wishes that I had more interest in going to bed right now though, so I'd better go. Ta ta.
Welcome Amber
Welcome, welcome, Amber. We're glad to have you.
In the spirit of welcoming a new person, I wanted to conduct a small survey here on our little blog. We have lots of new people whose blogs I frequent, and old people (not myself--I'm young, but Kami is getting on in years) whose blogs I also frequent, and I have noticed that many of us have interests in common that I didn't know about. For example, Marilyn is a fellow bread baker. So, I wanted to list a few of my interests here and if you have those interests, speak up. If you have other interests that I fail to mention, speak up about those also. It is fun (for me anyway) to get a better sense of those with whom I blog.
INTERESTS:
Cooking/baking
Healthy Eating
Reading (duh)
Education--all the political stuff and theories and research
Homeschool Educating
Writing fiction and nonfiction
Singing
Playing softball
Making Out with my Hubby
Chocolate (yes, it deserves its own mention)
Geneology and family history
Books of Remembrance (I'm huge with this and love to hear what people are doing to follow Pres. Eyring's counsel)
Learning to Communicate with Others (in other words--allowing oneself to connect with others on a deep enough level that some amount of risk/vulnerability is involved. How does one do that effectively?)
Homemade Cleansers
Blogging
Feminism
Parenting
Okay, I totally stretched my brain and thought for a full five minutes to come up with that list. Now, all of you list the ones we have in common and any of your own interests that haven't been listed. PS--If you want to make Kami's day, you can also mention your favorite would-be world conqueror. It is one of Kami's hobbies to find that out about people. Mine is Napolean.
In the spirit of welcoming a new person, I wanted to conduct a small survey here on our little blog. We have lots of new people whose blogs I frequent, and old people (not myself--I'm young, but Kami is getting on in years) whose blogs I also frequent, and I have noticed that many of us have interests in common that I didn't know about. For example, Marilyn is a fellow bread baker. So, I wanted to list a few of my interests here and if you have those interests, speak up. If you have other interests that I fail to mention, speak up about those also. It is fun (for me anyway) to get a better sense of those with whom I blog.
INTERESTS:
Cooking/baking
Healthy Eating
Reading (duh)
Education--all the political stuff and theories and research
Homeschool Educating
Writing fiction and nonfiction
Singing
Playing softball
Making Out with my Hubby
Chocolate (yes, it deserves its own mention)
Geneology and family history
Books of Remembrance (I'm huge with this and love to hear what people are doing to follow Pres. Eyring's counsel)
Learning to Communicate with Others (in other words--allowing oneself to connect with others on a deep enough level that some amount of risk/vulnerability is involved. How does one do that effectively?)
Homemade Cleansers
Blogging
Feminism
Parenting
Okay, I totally stretched my brain and thought for a full five minutes to come up with that list. Now, all of you list the ones we have in common and any of your own interests that haven't been listed. PS--If you want to make Kami's day, you can also mention your favorite would-be world conqueror. It is one of Kami's hobbies to find that out about people. Mine is Napolean.
My Intro
Hi All!
My name is Amber Mitchell and Julia mentioned this site. I love all your insights! It is wonderful to be in contact with so many awesome, thinking, questioning, and pondering women! Here is a little background on me and mine.
I have four little ones ages 9-2 whom I love to have home with me. I love TJEd principles and have really seen a difference in my life as I have implemented them in my home. The one that has impacted me the most lately is YOU not Them. I have noticed the more I have focused on my education the more the rest of the keys and principles have fallen into place. This sounds like "TJEd worked for me!" plug-sorry!
I read the Eve book and liked it. I had started it years ago and put it down because I thought it was too dry. Perhaps I just was not ready for it. I loved everything she said. I did realize that I already knew much of it because of my other gospel reading so nothing was really "new". One thing that did stand out to me though if I really thought about it it would have been "duh" was how we will continue to learn and grow beyond this life. I thought "oh, good. I don't have to learn everything right now! Maybe I can finally become good at Physics in a million years!" Good book to read and would not mind reading the second one.
I read the talk by Sister Beck last year. I also follow every word she says as she has not been wrong so far. I love her. The Lord has blessed us with her inspired calling. Reading that speech made me do a serious assessment of my teaching skills and what I want to teach to my children and others whom I serve. I would highly recommend reading it and any other of her talks and speeches.
I flipped thru Guns but will probably not read it. I might listen to and watch some of it but I have so many other books to read right now. This one did not grab me right off so sorry book! :)
Have a great day!
Amber
My name is Amber Mitchell and Julia mentioned this site. I love all your insights! It is wonderful to be in contact with so many awesome, thinking, questioning, and pondering women! Here is a little background on me and mine.
I have four little ones ages 9-2 whom I love to have home with me. I love TJEd principles and have really seen a difference in my life as I have implemented them in my home. The one that has impacted me the most lately is YOU not Them. I have noticed the more I have focused on my education the more the rest of the keys and principles have fallen into place. This sounds like "TJEd worked for me!" plug-sorry!
I read the Eve book and liked it. I had started it years ago and put it down because I thought it was too dry. Perhaps I just was not ready for it. I loved everything she said. I did realize that I already knew much of it because of my other gospel reading so nothing was really "new". One thing that did stand out to me though if I really thought about it it would have been "duh" was how we will continue to learn and grow beyond this life. I thought "oh, good. I don't have to learn everything right now! Maybe I can finally become good at Physics in a million years!" Good book to read and would not mind reading the second one.
I read the talk by Sister Beck last year. I also follow every word she says as she has not been wrong so far. I love her. The Lord has blessed us with her inspired calling. Reading that speech made me do a serious assessment of my teaching skills and what I want to teach to my children and others whom I serve. I would highly recommend reading it and any other of her talks and speeches.
I flipped thru Guns but will probably not read it. I might listen to and watch some of it but I have so many other books to read right now. This one did not grab me right off so sorry book! :)
Have a great day!
Amber
Hey Ju, I read Savvy a couple years ago (not too long ago - it's a pretty recent book I think). I thought it was okay. I hope you like it!
Everyone - I was recently pointed in the direction of a fabulous talk given by Sister Beck not too long ago. She is one of my absolute heroes these days. I love pretty much every word that comes out of that woman's mouth. :-) I thought you might like to read her talk. It has really helped bring into focus what teaching I should be doing with my children.
http://www.lds.org/pa/rs/pdf/CES_2009_Beck_eng.pdf
I haven't even started the Federalist Papers. I have them, somewhere, on my shelves. Right now I have a visitor who has to be Hands-On Entertained every day (for this entire week) so I'm getting virtually no reading done except my Gospel Study. Hopefully I can hurry and catch up once she goes home.
Hope you all are enjoying your spring! Mine has been lovely, but too much of the never-ending coastal winds!
Everyone - I was recently pointed in the direction of a fabulous talk given by Sister Beck not too long ago. She is one of my absolute heroes these days. I love pretty much every word that comes out of that woman's mouth. :-) I thought you might like to read her talk. It has really helped bring into focus what teaching I should be doing with my children.
http://www.lds.org/pa/rs/pdf/CES_2009_Beck_eng.pdf
I haven't even started the Federalist Papers. I have them, somewhere, on my shelves. Right now I have a visitor who has to be Hands-On Entertained every day (for this entire week) so I'm getting virtually no reading done except my Gospel Study. Hopefully I can hurry and catch up once she goes home.
Hope you all are enjoying your spring! Mine has been lovely, but too much of the never-ending coastal winds!
When You Reach Me
Has anyone read this yet? The newest Newberry book. I found it quite intriguing and fascinating, but have nobody to talk with about it. I tried to entice my son . . .but I think I gave too much away. Anyway, read it. I liked it a lot!
And just FYI these books are sitting next to my bed to be read:
The Education of Little Tree
Charles and Emma (a biography abt. the Darwins)
Savvy by Ingrid Law
I, Coriander by Sally Gardner
OH, and The Federalist, of course!
My son (age 10) is currently consumed by the Underland series (Gregor the Overlander . . . ) and the Charlie Bone books. He informed me he does not like to read "old" books, lately (even though he loves them when we read them aloud!). :-)
Hope you're all reading something fun, too. :-)
JULIA
And just FYI these books are sitting next to my bed to be read:
The Education of Little Tree
Charles and Emma (a biography abt. the Darwins)
Savvy by Ingrid Law
I, Coriander by Sally Gardner
OH, and The Federalist, of course!
My son (age 10) is currently consumed by the Underland series (Gregor the Overlander . . . ) and the Charlie Bone books. He informed me he does not like to read "old" books, lately (even though he loves them when we read them aloud!). :-)
Hope you're all reading something fun, too. :-)
JULIA
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Still here
Sorry you haven't heard from me in forever! I'm still here, just overwhelmed with a million other things at the moment. But I do plan to check out Federalist Papers next time I get to the library! Thanks for all your posts (I like it when you post on other books you're reading, too!).
Federalist
I am currently reading The Federalist Papers. But, don't move too quickly . . . I always feel like I'm trying to "catch up"!!! :-) JULIA
Books!
My husband cued me into this blog list that I thought I would share.
Young-adult author Elana Johnson sparked a meme called "Spreading The Awesome", encouraging people to post about "ten-star books."
Just thought all ya'll might be interested.
Young-adult author Elana Johnson sparked a meme called "Spreading The Awesome", encouraging people to post about "ten-star books."
Just thought all ya'll might be interested.
Eve and the Choice Made in Eden
I did finally finish reading this. It actually was a pretty quick read once I settled in to do it. I thought it was a interesting book and led to some good discussions with my husband. He didn't necessarily buy into all her arguments, but then he was only getting my condensed, less articulate version of her points. Overall, it introduced some things to me that I hadn't thought of before and clarified other things that I had guessed at before. I did find it rather annoying that each time she explained about a Hebrew word having a particular meaning, she never wrote what the Hebrew word was. I know that's fairly nit-picky of me, but it seemed overly "dumbed down" just by that simple act.
Sorry I have nothing more interesting to write than that, but I need to get to bed and sleep, and this was on my to-do list to get done first.
By the way, is it okay if we move on to the Federalist Papers now? I know Andrea's still reading GGS but she can catch up. I just wondered if anyone else was still reading it and planning on commenting. If so I won't move on quite yet.
Sorry I have nothing more interesting to write than that, but I need to get to bed and sleep, and this was on my to-do list to get done first.
By the way, is it okay if we move on to the Federalist Papers now? I know Andrea's still reading GGS but she can catch up. I just wondered if anyone else was still reading it and planning on commenting. If so I won't move on quite yet.
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