What HAVEN'T I Been Doing?

Taking a break from blogging this summer to truly get my house in order. With each new baby, there's a deadline to get it together now that there's going to be ____ kids.

To begin with, I repainted the playroom with a semi-gloss, for easy wiping. I also added the chalkboard and painted a brown particle board entertainment center you can't see blue, the inside of the closet blue and the window sill that same blue. The doors are off the closet, which contains more shelves of toys. I made a valence real quick to go over the window. Prior to repainting, the room was Freddie Mac Forclosure tan covered with smudgies.

The Toy Room

My mom took the kids one night and my husband and I went to the movies. I got up early that morning after taping it up that night and painted over the ugly tan a pretty purple. In time, I made the curtains from some clearenced fabric at Walmart and some light blocking fabric I bought 10 years ago for an apartment window I never did sew curtains for. These curtains are no-sew, I just sewed enough felt at the top to make the blocking fabric long enough and then used big safety pins at the top to stick the two together. I used a roll of purple ribbon cut into 12 inch lengths to tie the stuff up on the rod. I repainted a shelf white and reused some decorations that would go with purple. I took one of those sign your name oversized matte frames and covered it with the fabric from the curtain to frame a cross-stitch sampler I did in high school. The crib is to the right and I got a real cute monkey sticker off of Amazon to go above it.

Baby Girl Nursery

I've also spent a great deal of time getting ready for this fall's co-op classes. I'm taking it easy on myself, not teaching a science class, but instead a visual phonics class for little folks and a creative writing class for jr. high kids. For the visual phonics, I made five super hero capes with the vowels sewn on the back. My oldest and artistic daughter illustrated the booklets I made that explain the phonics rules, which are heavily dependent on the pictures. We're going to be pretending to be letters and acting out how they "behave" when they're together. I'll be playing the part of Mommy E who tells vowels to say their name. I already have a dopey dress picked out for the part.

My oldest daughter won't buy off the rack. She has to have her dresses be at least knee-length, sit a certain way, etc. So I made six jumpers for her to wear over a tee-shirt. I reverse engineered this one dress that she absolutely loves to get the pattern. One turned out too small, and that was the one that was too "loud" for her anyway. Her little sister seems to like it so that wasn't a waste. The thing that took the longest was that my zipper foot disappered. So I spent a long time sewing in all those 22" zippers by hand. When I was all done, guess what I found in the middle of living room floor? Yes, my zipper foot! It took me three solid days of sewing to get this goal achieved, but I knew it was the only way I was going to have back to school clothes for my 14 year old.

But that's not all. I promised my 10 year old a butterfly garden. Thankfully my mom and stepdad brought the big rototiller to get a spot ready. The ground here is pure red clay, so I tried to work some peat moss into it. We've got two butterfly bushes and lots of marigolds. I also bought a couple of really pretty cosmos, but they didn't thrive so much. As you can see, we don't weed eat much round here. Note to self: it takes about 6 cu feet of mulch to cover this bed up.

I also planted a garden, which looks pretty shaggy. I planted corn, potatoes, melons- the whole deal. But I didn't do any weeding seeing how I was so pregnant. I also didn't nag my kids, mostly because I thought they would pull up  the plants along with it. I would put up a picture, but it's just too embarrassing. We've decided to call it the rabbit preserve. They have so enjoyed my tomatoes and canteloupes. But the attempt at the garden did take a lot of time.

 Getting ready for this year of homeschool was also an endeavor. Getting together the money to get the curriculum before school started AND before the baby came was a tight situation. But I got it together so that I could go through it all and make the necessary copies. From my Mystery of History CD, I was able to print off all the maps, quizzes, and choose what activities I wanted to do, causing me to print off pictures from google and such. The third volume of MoH doens't have the activities and instructions in the book, it's all on the CD, so I printed that out as well. I put all this stuff in a huge three ring binder. So all my kids work is already hole - punched for history, anyway. I'm using Writing with Ease and printed out "workbooks" from the student pages for my middle kids. I suspect it's too easy for my fifth grader, but she needs to reboot her writing, and it only take five minutes to do. I got the Ultimate Homeschool Planner by Debra Bell and it is pretty cool. It has spaces for up to six kids. Perfect for me right? It has a yearly planner where you can put in birthdays, co-op days, etc. Then it has a monthly planner and the rest is full of weekly planners. It has spots for academic goals, charachter goals, hospitality/outreach projects (which we tend to forget about), etc. I list what I want to do for the week over the weekend and then transcribe that into my older two kids' planners. This is working well for my highschooler, who can see what her week's work entails and she can get it done without coming to me constantly for new instructions. My next oldest needs some help in focusing. In our first week of school, we got done prior to 11 just about every day. This week has been more hectic as I've had three appointments and it's real hard to get them to do their work when their routine has been broken.

Another thing we've been working on is establishing cleaning routines. I'm not a routine person, so this is very challenging. So far, the laundry hasn't gotten behind. We still have a ways to go before we've acheived a "sustainable" sense of order around here.

 Oh, and the most interesting thing on my "to do" list was getting my baby samplers cross-stitched. I was behind on my last baby, but I got hers done and on the wall in the toy room. I was working on the current baby's sampler when I went into labor five days late. Actually, I wasn't actively working on it as it was 2:30 in the morning when I started to feel a "real" contraction (after a month or two of false labor). I planned to take my sampler with me when I went to the hospital to take my mind off of it. Well, I wasn't far enough gone for them and because I was doing my needlepoint, they assumed I wasn't in labor and sent me home. I continued to have contractions the rest of the day, but they started to get bad across the afternoon. That's when I started making stitching mistakes. Because a lot of guys read this blog, I skip the details and just say that I went in at 4:30 pm and she popped on out at 6:00.  I was really looking forward to my nubain IV painkiller that I had with the previous four kids, but this hospital wouldn't give it to you that late because it will make the baby sleepy. Thing is, I don't need painkiller before then, but anyway.  Note to self, don't cross-stitch while in early labor. I'll also note that labor is more pleasant at home. My 2 year old started "breathing through" her diaper change - she copies "everything" I do.  

So I had to let the blogging go for the summer so as to get things in order. You don't need me to tell you the world is a screwed up place. I hope that I will be blogging again soon on a regular basis as we get into our homeschool schedule.

Thanks for all the kind comments and for stopping by!

Baby Has Arrived

I finally got to a computer to put this up. Baby #6 was born Saturday, the 27th, allowing me to avoid an induction that next Monday.  She's girl #4 and redhead #3.  She was 8 lbs and 2 oz and 20 3/4 inches long.

Happy to be out!

Happy Fourth, I Guess

This flag more accurately represents the true power structure of the United States. Instead of being an amalgamation of the power of the individual fifty states, it is the power of the mob that these various agencies represent.



Let's go back to the beginning for some perspective:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Ok, that's the part they make you memorize in school, or they used to anyway. But the meat of this document lies just beyond this point. The "how to" if you will to hold onto these right. Beware, there is some "terror talk" to the statist found below:

--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, 

ruh roh, the globalist bankster mob that has hijacked our country no likey the sound of that

laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;

The total abandonment of most of the Bill of Rights doesn't fall under a light and transient cause.

 and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. 

We'll put up with almost anything just to get by.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Now that Object is more clear to us living in this day and time than any other in history. The monied interests are going after the whole enchalada - world domination and they're using the wealth of the American people to get their job done. When they're finally through with us, it's the last train to Auschwitz, man.

--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Jefferson goes on to list what all the Crown had done to the colonies so there would be a clear record of what the rebellion was all about. The difference in our day is that our Tyrant is not so well defined- and It likes it that way, gets a lot more tyrant mileage that way. One group blames liberals and the other blames conservatives, meanwhile the men on top are pumping 85 billion a month out of the USA and setting themselves up for a total collapse.

It's hard to get stoked about this Fourth of July, because to enjoy it in a carefree way means you have no clue what is going on around you, and you're probably not reading a blog like this.

I have about two weeks to go before Baby #6 arrives, so I must continue to rock through my "to do list" in case you've been wondering what I've been up to.

FBI Changes Story on Orlando Shooting

Here's my well-received little snippet at the Daily Paul that made the Front Page about a guy who was friends with the alleged Boston Bomber Boys.

Remember the crazy story of the guy pulling a knife in the midst of several armed men while about to sign a confession to a triple homicide? Yeah, well the director of that script sent it for a rewrite:

Initially, FBI officials said Todashev, 27, became violent and lunged at an agent with a knife while he was being questioned about Tsarnaev and an unsolved 2011 triple murder in the Boston suburb of Waltham. The agent, acting on an "imminent threat," then shot Todashev, they said.
However, later in the day, some of those officials had backed off that preliminary account, and it's no longer clear what happened in the moments before the fatal shooting, The Associated Press reported.
Read more: http://www.myfoxorlando.com/story/22403812/fbi-shooting-orla...

Man, I must be getting old, because I remember when the sources to these stories actually had names. It's starting to seem like Hal the Computer just prints all this crap out for the AP or something.

In addition to that, Daniel McAdams at Lew Rockwell has a great piece full of more tidbits:

Here is an account of the final hours according to his friend Khasuen Taramov:

"Taramov said he himself was questioned by the FBI for three hours Tuesday night. Asked what he was asked, Taramov said, 'Different kind of questions like "what do you think about bombings," "do you know these guys," blah blah blah, what is my views on certain stuff.'...
"Taramov said his friend had told him he had a bad feeling about the direction the investigation was heading.
"He felt like there's going to be a setup ... bad setup against him. Because he told me, "They are making up such crazy stuff, I don't know ... why they doing it. OK, I'm answering the questions, but they are still making up some, like, connections, some crazy stuff. I don't know why they are doing it.'"

Going across the pond, we find this disturbing account:

Adebolajo's friend Abu Nusaybah told the British media that the MI5, the UK equivalent of the FBI, had been hounding Adebolajo for some time after he had returned from a trip to Kenya:

"Mr Nusaybah said when Adebolajo returned from Kenya he claimed he was 'being harassed by MI5' after agents repeatedly called at his home.
"'His wording was, 'They are bugging me; they won't leave me alone'," Mr Nusaybah said.
"He mentioned initially they wanted to ask him whether he knew certain individuals.
"'But after him saying that he didn't know these individuals and so forth, what he said is they asked him whether he would be interested in working for them.
"'He was explicit in that he refused to work for them but he did confirm that he didn't know the individuals.'" 

Weird stuff, but it seems to follow a pattern. Has there been a terrorist attack where the "perpetrators" were totally unknown to the government beforehand?

Why the Drug War is so Lucrative

It's called Policing for Profit. The local law enforcement gets to keep $$$ that it confiscates on the highway. That's why you're more likely to get pulled over going westbound through TN, because the drugs supposedly are smuggled in on the eastbound and they aren't interested in that.

Here is an actual investigative report detailing how the Feds and DEA work together to play the game of seeing who's traveling the interstate with money. They pick on minorities/foreigners that are using cash to buy businesses and large items like bulldozers.

Gun Use by Citizens Infographic

General Patton Assassinated

You know you've always suspected that the car accident angle was fishy, now a new book has come out telling us why it's fishy. Tim Shipman of the Daily Telegraph has a write up on it here. The book is called Target Patton by Robert Wilcox and it covers the following points:

• Highly decorated sniper later turned artist, Douglas Bazata, spills his guts on how he was ordered to take out Patton using a staged accident in combo with a shot to the neck. Who gave the order? Will Bill Donovan, the granddaddy of the CIA.
• Bazata also claims in these interviews he gave before his death, that the Russians finished the job while Patton was recovering in the hospital with poison. They seem to really like that method, don't they?
• Also interviewed  by Wilcox was one counterintelligence agent, Stephen Skubik, who learned that Patton was on Stalin's kill list. His reports went ignored and he was shipped back to the states.
• Where are the documents relating to Patton's accident and subsequent death? Why missing from the national archives of course.
• Wilcox has also gotten a Cadillac expert to say that the busted up car on display at the Patton museum in Fort Knox could not be the one involved in the accident.

Why would "they" want Patton dead? Well, if you followed my Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution series, you ought to know that the whole stinking Soviet Union was set up by "American" based companies. I use the term American loosely there because almost no Americans to this day are aware that JP Morgan handed the communists everything they needed or wanted to set up a totalitarian state. Antony Sutton further illustrates in his Western Technology transfer books that the US kept sending tech over to the Soviet Union throughout the 20th century. Patton didn't trust or like the Russians and wanted to end their evil empire while our troops were over there. That would never do for our central planning Fabian socialists one worlders. He wasn't going to keep their story together for them if he kept on living, and he wasn't the kind of guy that would be threatened into shutting up on all the stuff he had seen go down.