Legos

Have we mentioned lately what is quite possibly the kids favorite thing on earth?  Yep....it's still Legos!

Legos

Have we mentioned lately what is quite possibly the kids favorite thing on earth?  Yep....it's still Legos!

Sleepy

Jacob wasn't feeling well the other week and got a day off school.  He put up a good fight but couldn't quite stay awake all afternoon.

Sleepy

Jacob wasn't feeling well the other week and got a day off school.  He put up a good fight but couldn't quite stay awake all afternoon.

Martin Luther King Jr

Noah's class was learning all about Martin Luther King Jr this week at school including "I Have A Dream".  The kids all made posters displaying what their dreams would be.  Memo to Noah.....we loved your poster. 

And while we are on the topic of MLK Jr, memo to Noah & Jacob, you should sometime look further into the MLK's Street Sweeper speech (more appropriately referred to as "Three Dimensions of a Complete Life").  This is your required reading!!!  We can all learn something from Dr. King.    


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozwv1Va4RpE

"What I’m saying to you this morning, my friends, even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; (Go ahead) sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, “Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.”

If you can’t be a pine on the top of a hill

Be a scrub in the valley—but be

The best little scrub on the side of the hill,

Be a bush if you can’t be a tree.

If you can’t be a highway just be a trail

If you can’t be the sun be a star;

It isn’t by size that you win or fail—

Be the best of whatever you are.

And when you do this, when you do this, you’ve mastered the length of life. (Yes)

This onward push to the end of self-fulfillment is the end of a person’s life. Now don’t stop here, though. You know, a lot of people get no further in life than the length. They develop their inner powers; they do their jobs well. But do you know, they try to live as if nobody else lives in the world but themselves? (Yes) And they use everybody as mere tools to get to where they’re going. (Yes) They don’t love anybody but themselves. And the only kind of love that they really have for other people is utilitarian love. You know, they just love people that they can use. (Well)

A lot of people never get beyond the first dimension of life. They use other people as mere steps by which they can climb to their goals and their ambitions. These people don’t work out well in life. They may go for awhile, they may think they’re making it all right, but there is a law. (Oh yeah) They call it the law of gravitation in the physical universe, and it works, it’s final, it’s inexorable: whatever goes up can come down. You shall reap what you sow. (Yeah) God has structured the universe that way. (Yeah) And he who goes through life not concerned about others will be a subject, victim of this law.

So I move on and say that it is necessary to add breadth to length. Now the breadth of life is the outward concern for the welfare of others, as I said. (Yeah) And a man has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his own individual concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

Martin Luther King Jr

Noah's class was learning all about Martin Luther King Jr this week at school including "I Have A Dream".  The kids all made posters displaying what their dreams would be.  Memo to Noah.....we loved your poster. 

And while we are on the topic of MLK Jr, memo to Noah & Jacob, you should sometime look further into the MLK's Street Sweeper speech (more appropriately referred to as "Three Dimensions of a Complete Life").  This is your required reading!!!  We can all learn something from Dr. King.    


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozwv1Va4RpE

"What I’m saying to you this morning, my friends, even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; (Go ahead) sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, “Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.”

If you can’t be a pine on the top of a hill

Be a scrub in the valley—but be

The best little scrub on the side of the hill,

Be a bush if you can’t be a tree.

If you can’t be a highway just be a trail

If you can’t be the sun be a star;

It isn’t by size that you win or fail—

Be the best of whatever you are.

And when you do this, when you do this, you’ve mastered the length of life. (Yes)

This onward push to the end of self-fulfillment is the end of a person’s life. Now don’t stop here, though. You know, a lot of people get no further in life than the length. They develop their inner powers; they do their jobs well. But do you know, they try to live as if nobody else lives in the world but themselves? (Yes) And they use everybody as mere tools to get to where they’re going. (Yes) They don’t love anybody but themselves. And the only kind of love that they really have for other people is utilitarian love. You know, they just love people that they can use. (Well)

A lot of people never get beyond the first dimension of life. They use other people as mere steps by which they can climb to their goals and their ambitions. These people don’t work out well in life. They may go for awhile, they may think they’re making it all right, but there is a law. (Oh yeah) They call it the law of gravitation in the physical universe, and it works, it’s final, it’s inexorable: whatever goes up can come down. You shall reap what you sow. (Yeah) God has structured the universe that way. (Yeah) And he who goes through life not concerned about others will be a subject, victim of this law.

So I move on and say that it is necessary to add breadth to length. Now the breadth of life is the outward concern for the welfare of others, as I said. (Yeah) And a man has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his own individual concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

Museum

The kids always enjoy a trip to the Children's Museum.  The water adventures are always a favorite and Jacob learned about weights and measures!

Museum

The kids always enjoy a trip to the Children's Museum.  The water adventures are always a favorite and Jacob learned about weights and measures!

Darts

This has become a fun little game before bed time.  Both of the boys have become pretty good and can really wind up and fire those darts.

Darts

This has become a fun little game before bed time.  Both of the boys have become pretty good and can really wind up and fire those darts.

Salt Lick - Post #5

After all that food, including dessert, it appeared that Noah was ready to throw in the towel and settle in for the long drive home.

Salt Lick - Post #5

After all that food, including dessert, it appeared that Noah was ready to throw in the towel and settle in for the long drive home.

Salt Lick - Post #4

After the BBQ, bread, cole slaw, etc, it was time to move on to dessert.  It should almost be a requirement at the Salt Lick to order blackberry cobbler for dessert.  Even though no one had room for dessert after the meal, it’s too good to pass up.

Salt Lick - Post #4

After the BBQ, bread, cole slaw, etc, it was time to move on to dessert.  It should almost be a requirement at the Salt Lick to order blackberry cobbler for dessert.  Even though no one had room for dessert after the meal, it’s too good to pass up.

Salt Lick - Post #3

Jacob liked the sausage but may have enjoyed the bread even more!