Do I know what I am doing? Of course not. Remember, blogging was going to be a learning process for me so that my brain didn't atrophy. Last night, after a whole bunch of HTML trial and error (12 yo computer guru was in bed) I made great progress on my template. And then, while I was uploading stuff on Photobucket, my modem quit transfering data! You know what happened next -- the SAVE CHANGES button for my template would not work. It was the Lord telling me to get to bed, that Saturday night is not the night to stay up late messing with blogging vanity. So rather than reconnect the antiquated dial-up and start over (and undoubtedly stay up till all hours of the night), I obeyed and went to bed. Good news -- since we have no violin teacher currently, we are going to use the money we would be spending on lessons to get DSL! Yippee! This is supposedly so that my daughter can watch master lesson videos online and teach herself, but I know there will be lots of other advantages, not the least of which will be blogging improvements.
Tonight God has not told me I have to go to bed yet 
ATTENTION!!!
If any of you have a good hands-on Bible curriculum or Sunday School curriculum for preschoolers/kindergarteners, or if you know anyone who might, PLEASE let me know. Preferably something that does not take a whole lot of teacher prep. We have a class of three busy little creatures who need to be DOING something while they are listening, and our current material is not keeping their attention!
Anyone remember what the sermon was about Sunday morning? Or did you forget already? We had a good message from Matthew 14, about Peter walking on the water. A point I liked is that the Bible says Jesus "stretched forth his hand and caught him". I wondered how far away Peter was from the Lord when he cried out, "Lord, save me!", but really it doesn't matter. If he was right next to Jesus, his arm only stretched a little bit, and if Peter was twenty-five yards away, Jesus stretched his arm out a lot. But in either case, no matter how close or far away you are from the Lord, his arm will reach you. You are not too far away to be saved. Praise the Lord!
I'm sorry to hear about your computer woes. Isn't it amazing, we teach our children a few of the basics on the computer and it's not long, they are passing us up. Right now, I feel the same way with automobiles -- while looking at vans, only the girls know who to work all those new electronic doors and gadgets.
ReplyDeleteHmmmmm Preschool/K: Their attention span is short. I use to use flannalgraph & animal puppets a lot, and they liked song time, action songs, & musical instruments. I also found that if you use carpet mats or spread out a blanket each Sunday for their story area, they like that - making it a special place & time - even at that, you only have a short while before they are off again.
We had a nice Sunday service. Our pastor is on a series of sermons on "Living Large". This Sunday it was "Living Large With My Failures." with scripture from I Timothy 1:15-17 & Philippians 3:13. Talking about how all of us make mistakes in life, sometimes really big mistakes, as many of the people in the Bible did also, but how God can still use us. It was very good. We also sang several hymns (a little faster than I'd like). I love singing hymns, but often memories of standing next to my daddy in our little country church and singing with him come with certain songs - I can still hear his voice and the tears start to flow. Yesterday was one of those days - by the second verse of "And Can it Be", my eyes were filled with tears & I couldn't see the words. I miss him terribly.
ps (again) - I almost forgot, I guess it is a blue/periwinkle, but with the purple on top, I think it makes it look more periwinkle/violet. No matter which, I think it's pretty.
ReplyDeleteHooray for DSL!
ReplyDeleteI've taught preschoolers quite often and, unfortunately, the best curriculum that has worked for me is to sort of create my own. Sorry, I realize that means Teacher Prep! Keep those lessons short! Like less than 5 minutes and include a lot of interaction.
Your blog is looking great. I like all the pictures on the side, very cute. :)
ReplyDeleteJoAnn
I like your new template! it looks great...
ReplyDeleteSo glad you are getting DSL!!!
And we had a great sermon yesterday about being eternally secure in the fathers hand....from John 10 :)
marie
Oh my goodness, your blog colors are BEAUTIFUL! Great job! I've been blogging for a year & a half,and I still don't know how to change my template.
ReplyDeleteI like the template colors you are using. I love learning about HTML and templates. I didn't know they existed before last October!
ReplyDeleteJenn