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The card DD, age 7, made for me in Sunday School this morning:

I was sent the link to this today and it really put me in a good mood! Just thought I'd pop by and share the madness, uh happiness......--read more

Chantal is one of the only people to have received permission to perform at the pyramids so far and the set design and choreography was done by Guy St-Amour and Geneviève Dorion-Coupal who have previ--read more

Sam and Lana are twins. They are seven years old. They have a best
friend named Jazmin. She is six.

Rose is her cousin. She is four-teen.

“MAGIC.”

BY JOSEPHINE M. S. ARK

1.--read more

INVISIBLE LOLZ!

Totally invisible, because I'm miserable. I've been trying to muster the energy to update the software here, and I just haven't had it. Now I know why. I'll try to make sure JJ goes through the comments queue tomorrow morning.

The Dukes of Hazzard:

"I prefer Appalacian American"

--Bo Duke upon being called a "hillbilly" by a Brother in Atlanta.

ROFLMAO--read more

I've noticed a lot of visitors to the site are using "Fun Web Products." There's some debate as to whether this is spyware/browser hijacking software. But I thought I'd at least tell you guys what to do about it. Best tip: Use Firefox. It's far and away the best browser.

There's a lot, so I'll bullet point. (Just now learned how to do this in HTML for this post, impressive, non?)--read more

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I cannot express my joy as I type this from the cozy comfort of the nook in my kitchen!--read more

I am typing briefly and one-handed as I have a small bundle of joy curled against my left shoulder!--read more

I am just about to order a lot of stuff on Amazon UK for Christmas presents and would like to do it through TNH as usual but can't find the link anymore?? The only one I found doesn't work?? --read more

You may have noticed that for large chunks of the last week or so TNH has been unavailable. And then I closed it down with a moving notice.

One of our sister sites that we share our server with came under severe attack, and our hosting provider was less than helpful even after JJ and I figured out what was going on and how to stop it. In fact, they told us that if it happened a third time that we would be asked to leave. Well, it did, and so we've left. I won't say that our new provider is attack-proof, but they are more helpful, and outages like this week's should be more rare.

The last couple of weeks have been very difficult for me. I'm undergoing a depressive episode and now this. But things are now looking up a little. Here's hoping.

hello everyone. i hope that everyone is having a good Wednesday. i just wanted to formerly introduce myself to everyone on the forum. hello to all.--read more

Let's start a new thread guys - old one was way too long!

Lou is finally starting to come out of her spastic goony pre-schooler period, which has gone on now for FOUR YEARS. She's got her first really loose tooth, a lower front one, for starters. She's beginning to calm down and not mug non-stop all day. She's sleeping in her own bed, and not her sister's, more and more.

And yesterday, she officially joined the ranks of readers.

Josie had gone out to spend her birthday gift certificate to Powell's with her grandparents, leaving Lou and me alone in the house. So we sat down, slightly against her will, with the McGuffey First Reader and looked at the first five lessons.

She practically sailed through them! I know Josie has been sort of teaching Lou from the Reader, but she obviously hadn't memorized all of the lessons. And when we got to a word that stymied her in Lesson V, "catch," once I reminded her that "ch" sounds "chuh" she sounded the word out on her own.

I cheered and yelled and grabbed her and kissed her all over and made her giggle and squeal. "Lou! You're a reader now!"

And that message seems to have taken. Last night, she read Lesson VI for her dad, and then the two of them went to the store. "Look, dad, that's organic," said Lou. Really? said daddy, how do you know? "It says 'organic' right on it--o-r-g-a-n-i-c." John gaped. "I can read now," Lou added matter-of-factly, "Mama taught me this afternoon."

See why we love homeschooling so much? I wouldn't have missed yesterday for anything.

A trucker came into a truck stop cafe and placed his
order. He said,
"I want Three flat tires, a pair of headlights and a
pair of running boards."--read more

Here is our new thread...

Ads should have disappeared. Please tell me if this is the case. Clear your cache, please, first.

Lynn, we have just upgraded our operating system to Debian 4 and are now using Iceweasel 2.0.0.3 instead of whatever old version of Firefox was kicking around.--read more

DD is turning seven in several weeks and we're having a Pajama Party/Slumber Party for her, and I'm wondering about party ideas.

I did a little research and found several good ideas:--read more

Morning Everyone -
New thread time!

PODA:
dwshower and dress
kids to friend's
work 1/2 day
come home and regroup - maybe a Zone and some scrapping--read more

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The Blog Reader Project survey is ended, and here's who we are. Highlights:--read more

What am I doing wrong that I can't access any of the albums that others have posted? Thanks.

Heidi

You may note that a new little picture is showing up next to blog posts and comments (the internet term is "avatar," FYI). Right now almost all of you have the default "no picture" picture, the Clothesline Lady:

Except for me. You can see that my picture is different. It's me as an anime character.

Your picture can be different, too! If you click on a Clothesline Lady next to an entry of yours, it'll take you to your profile page. Click on the "edit" tab and you'll see where you can upload your own leetle peecture. You can make your leetle peecture anything you want: A picture of you, a picture of your kid(s)--any image you want. Just make sure it's no more than 85 pixels wide by 85 pixels tall, and is no more than 30k in size.

Like my me-as-an-anime? There are a lot of avatar generators out there if you want to make yourself into a cartoon character. Here are a sampling of them:--read more

AS I mentioned yesterday we are getting ready to adopt a little boy.--read more

Well, I am new and this is my first ever blog So, we'll see how it goes.--read more

Well here I am starting yet another blog. Although it may not be your typical TNH blog and perhaps intermittently forgotten for weeks on end I hope you enjoy reading it. --read more

I'm concentrating on the organizer's dictums:

--Clear the decks in the kitchen before opening the computer (UNBELIEVABLY hard)

--Make sure breakfast is ready to be made when the girls get up

--Make sure at least one load of laundry gets washed and put away

--Clear the decks again and be ready to make dinner when John gets home.--read more

As you've probably noticed, I've been trying an experiment: Posting daily on the chore of the day. I've decided that those pieces really belong in the article sections, not Diary, and I'll be rearranging them into that section soon. I'll still be posting something every day, unless I need a break, and then I'll give notice of same.

Diary will be going back to my usual observations on life in general. Which means it'll also be moving down the front page a little to make way for the "new article" section.

I'm also looking at consolidating the various sections. The forum and blog post areas have way too many choices; I think it may be confusing to newbies. It's going to be a bit of work on my end, but should be seamless on yours.

The forums, I think, will remain with their topics as it stands now, though I'm probably going to collapse a few subtopics into the main topics--fewer choices. But the blogs I'm going to move into the same section as the articles--the seven basic topics of the site.

Stay tuned!