Braids, Curls & Hunting Squirrels: Fiddling Cabbages

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Fiddling Cabbages

St. Thomas Aquinas has a big Carnival every year and it is quite a production. Now that we are at the school, I have an entire new level of appreciation for all the work the families put in to making this event special for the kids and the adults. It's a great, great time. During the Carnival, they have a Talent Show. Right away, Ainsley Grace wanted to be a part of it - after consulting with our Violin Teacher Mrs. Kathy, she suggested we playing a little fiddling piece called Boiling Cabbages instead of one of her longer classical pieces. One skill (and it is a skill) is if you mess up, you keep playing. AG had a tiny mess up but she kept playing and no one even knew! She did a FANTASTIC job!! Here are pictures the organizer took for us..... Her friends came to watch her, it was so sweet!

Here is the Green Team tent (I'm the co-chair). It was fun and cute.

Here is the team walking to the dunking booth - AG got em good!

Here is my adorable Goddaughter with her cute hairdo and her yummy treat!

Here is my Green Team Bulletin Board. I had helpers...

Here is Lulubee with two of her besties. She hasn't had a playdate with her WRM friends since school started. It was sweet - they had a great time and played and played... That next picture is Vintage Lexi - She likes to do crazy hairdos and usually at places where a lot of strangers see us....

Here is Anderson's poster board for being Student of the Week.It was cute - he wanted a picture of Mac and Cheese, Banana Split, his brother, family, Spiderman, Ninja, swords and a soccerball with flames!

Here is Whit - A lady at the grocery store looked at him and told me, "he is juicy!"

September is crazy crazy busy. But, as you can see, it's all happy busy. Kids are working hard in school, dancing, karating, playing soccer and playing music. Now, we are gearing up for Halloweeeeeeen!!

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Catholicism

Christ said, "I am the Truth"; he did not say "I am the custom." -- St. Toribio
Not 100 in the United States hate the Roman Catholic Church, but millions hate what they mistakenly think the Roman Catholic Church is. -- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. –C.S. Lewis
Few souls understand what God would accomplish in them if they were to abandon themselves unreservedly to Him and if they were to allow His grace to mold them accordingly. -- St. Ignatius Loyola
To the pure all things are pure, but to the impure nothing is pure” (Ti 1:15).
Article about Sola Scriptura

Can we have a moment of silence for the honorable President Ronald Reagan

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Within the covers of the Bible are all the answers for all the problems men face.
Man is not free unless government is limited.
We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born

A taste of some Maria Montessori's Wisdom

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
We must help the child to liberate himself from his defects without making him feel his weakness.
Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.
The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself.
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child.We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the child with our surveillance and instruction.
A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.
We habitually serve children; and this is not only an act of servility toward them, but it is dangerous, since it tends to suffocate their useful, spontaneous activity.
He who is served is limited in his independence
These words reveal the child's inner needs: "Help me to do it alone."
When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing.