“To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets,
labors, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys,
boots, cakes, and books; to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals,
manners, theology, and hygiene; I can understand how this might exhaust the
mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career
to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to
tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same
thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s function
is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute.”
(What’s Wrong With the World, G.K. Chesterton)

Aaaaah. School vacation. We just finished a long six week run of school. One of the million advantages of homeschooling is that we can take vacation when we need it. And boy, we need it. We’re all a bit tired and a bit weary, and we worked extra hard today to finish up even tomorrow’s work.

She’s Super-MOM!

Sometimes you just have to brag. And what better place than a blog.

I’ve been working on a video-editing project – trying to get all our mini-DV footage into a format to go onto DVD. I’m enjoying the process and reacquanting myself with the editing software that I have, but the process takes up oodles of space on my hard-drive. I’ve been near panic to see that I only have 12GB left.

So this afternoon instead of tackling a to-do list, I took apart a computer that the kids use that had two hard drives. Pulled one out. Opened up my computer. Installed new hard drive. Unhooked a zipdrive that I have never used, and an unnecessary cd-rom driver. Voila. I have 55 additional GB, and the computer is running faster (and I think happier).

*sigh* I should get paid for this stuff.

After a very long break from preaching, I preached today. To hear me, go here:
http://www.vcwaterville.org/sermons.htm. I felt pretty good about it. My homework is to listen to myself this week. I’ll post how I feel after I listen it.