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I have a few sites online that I like to read articles.  One of those is Christianity Today.  Over the years, one of my favorite Christian authors has been Francine Rivers.  So, I was excited to see an article posted on the magazine's website written by her about Romance Novels.  I thought it was a very helpful, encouraging, and thought provoking article.  Here's a LINK .

My middle daughter was asked the question in her science today, how is sugar when it melts and rehardens like igneous rock?  Well, it behaves like rock--hardening in one piece.  But, the question made me curious.  How is sugar really made?  We found this fun and informative video on youtube...

My kids and I just watched this video together.  It was fun.  I love to dance and so do they.  It's almost clean.  One line of the lyrics refers to nighttime closeness and there's a troll shaking his bottom, but other than that, it was pretty fun... We love laughing together and I am thankful for every opportunity to do that--like watching this video and smiling together.

The flower stood strong in the sunlight.  I marveled at the way the petals connected in the center.  Each petal was unique.  When we create a computerized piece of art, everything has to be perfect.  But, God's creation is perfect in its imperfection.  The petals don't all perfectly line up.  They aren't all perfectly the same size.  But, what they are is just what God intended them to be.

A year ago, one of my daughter's picked up the first Land of Stories novel by Chris Colfer.  I have to admit that it was a book about fairy tale characters and so I wasn't too concerned about it.  My oldest daughter had some concerns about it, but my younger daughter enjoyed it and wanted to read more books of the series.  I feel that I toe a fine line between wanting to protect my kids, but also realizing that they have to grow up and be exposed to certain ideas about the world so that they can process through them.  So, when my oldest daughter had a few concerns, I listened to her specific concerns, but didn't have a huge red flag come up for me.  Now I know that I should have. Today I sat down with the Land of Stories because my younger daughter wanted to check out the rest of the series from the library.  I opened it up to the middle and began reading...   Within a few pages of reading this book, I realized how many adult concepts are inserted ...