Imperishable Beauty

It’s been a while since I last posted, I know. There have been things.

I’ve been collecting links for a while now, so here’s a good portion of Wednesday linkage for you.

• Read this article that claims that sitting straight is bad for your back. (Does that mean I get to recline more?)
• Read a little about the California case against homeschooling and view the results for this poll with astounding one-sided numbers.
• Share and download all kinds of homeschooling resources at Homeschool Launch.
• An equation for measuring sleep deprivation caused by children waking in the night - this mom is only “proving” what we already knew to be true. She just made it sound a whole lot more scientific!
• Peruse this list of old and crazy Texas laws.
• Have you heard of Hypermiling? Even my hubby is now doing it.
• View the American Family Association’s current Action Alerts.
• See how this mom saves money and gives creative baby gifts at the same time.

Dad dies while saving his daughter.

Read Jim Daly’s thoughts about the father who died saving his daughter’s life, and how the story affected him. Jim is the president of Focus on the Family.

The Duggar family is expecting their 18th child.

Read this list of interesting Duggar facts.

Visit the Duggar family website.

Read Shannon’s interview with her mother at Rocks In My Dryer.

A woman in Croatia laid dead in her flat for 35 years - and no one noticed.

Read about the double amputee runner who won his appeal to compete in the olympics.

Watch this YouTube video of Pistorius running.

Learn about this “green home” in north Texas with an average electricity bill of $78.00 a month - and it was built 10 years ago!

I’m really looking forward to this movie!!

Here’s the official Prince Caspian website.

Guys jumping into their jeans. Wouldn’t it just be easier to pull them on?

Check out these Japanese train loaders, literally shoving people onto the subway train to make them all fit. What a job!

Abraham Piper writes about prodigals, “Let Them Come Home.”

Check out this list of Fun Family Ideas from Cranium.com.

Pensieve is starting a weekly carnival called Friday’s 40-or-less Photo Challenge, which I personally think is an opportunity to expound upon the beauty of God in everyday life, don’t you?

Read “Five Reasons Why Mom Blogs Are The Blogs To Watch.”

Read this list of “Top Ten To Dos” for Homemaking.

Watch and see how to convert a Button Shirt to Toddler Dress.

Mother’s Diet Can Help Determine Sex of Child: Study

See the Dog that Cares for (and feeds) 9 Kittens.

“High-Speed Baby” Born at 80 mph on the way to the hospital!

Watch the video about a 12 Foot Python That Eats an Arm.

14 year old girl gives birth in Junior High bathroom and then attempts to flush the baby down the toilet.

2 Year Old Singing The Lord’s Prayer

Terry at Ornaments of Grace ponders the issue of modesty.

Jennifer at Et Tu? writes about our “Daily bread, for the next twenty years.”

My pastor shares this clip of Obama: Punished With A Baby?

Welcome to Wednesday Link Love!

I ride the internet wave, searching for good information and discarding the rest. See what caught my attention this week.

• Tales From The Crib asks “How old is to old to let your child see you naked?”
• Waycross, Georgia: A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher…
• Two Year Old reciting the Lord’s Prayer
• Men Who Do Housework May Get More Sex
• And then read this one about Redheads.
• Tot Shocks Parents By Reading

Amy Jane at Untangling Tales writes a fabulous analogy between sin and dirty diapers, and encourages us to remember our iniquity and how detestable it is to God every time we have to change one. Read more here. Personally, I thought it was a great analogy and a good reminder. (Even if analogies do break down at some point!)

Proverbs 6:16-19 There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him:
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Free Christian e-Books:

http://www.prayerforallpeople.com/free.shtml

Recipes:

http://www.glendasattic.com/RecipeBook/index.htm

Marriage:

The Beautiful Faith of Fearless Submission

Children:

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/