Funny quote

Something I often ask myself, too!

Many a true word is spoken in jest!

My daughter sent me this earlier today. We laughed so much I thought I would share it!

Worth thinking about...

Quote for the week...

O.K. so I admit to being a minion fan. They're so tremendously cute.

Here's a minion quote which I like.

Well, I'm not going to argue with that. It's absolutely true.

Another quote...

Interesting quote

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z. 

X  is work. 

Y  is play. 

Z  is keep your mouth shut." 

Thanks, Mr. Einstein. 

Favourite quote...

A word FOR Wednesdays

It has called upon my attention lately, how many blogs from around the globe leave Wednesday without any words.

I have decided to make amends by posting, precisely on Wednesdays, a "weird, uncommon and not so used or heard of" word and its meaning, etymology, etc,.

Many of these words will be ones which my father used to use in his normal, daily speech. To some, my father might have seemed a man of few words, but I can tell you the ones he did use I don't think I have ever heard them used by anyone else. I am still so very curious as to where he might have originally picked them all up.

Tomorrow, I will post about one of his most used words. Stay tuned.

I'll leave you with a famous quote about words from the late Margaret Thatcher:

“Watch your thoughts for they become words.
Watch your words for they become actions.
Watch your actions for they become habits.
Watch your habits for they become your character.
And watch your character for it becomes your destiny.
What we think, we become.
My father always said that... and I think I am fine.”

Favourite quote

Quotes

Well, art is art, isn't it. Still, on the other hand, water is water. East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now tell me what you know.
                                                      Groucho Marx

Homeschool quotes

As many of you already know, we are homeschoolers. We were blessed with this opportunity seven years ago, and have never regretted for one moment this "sacrifice" of time and energy we have been able to spend teaching our family.

I thought I would post a few of my favourite quotes about this subject and, searching in the internet one morning, I was amazed at the quantity of famous people who were schooled likewise.


“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” ~Benjamin Franklin


  “Much depends, as is allowed, upon the early education of youth, and the first principles which are instilled take the deepest root.” ~Abigail Adams


 “To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” ~Theodore Roosevelt


 “I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands a child as well as his mother, and children are so different that they need individual training and study. A teacher with a room full of pupils cannot do this. At home, too, they are in their mother’s care. She can keep them from learning immoral things from other children.” ~Laura Ingalls Wilder


  “Schools have not necessarily much to do with education... they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.” ~Winston Churchill


  “Home is the best place for teaching many things, first and most important of which is how to think for one's self.” ~Laura Ingalls Wilder


 

Control your stress levels!

Here at home we were having one of those mornings when I came across this quote from Winnie - the - Pooh...

To seem quite at ease hum tiddley-pom once or twice in a what-shall-we-do-now kind of way.

I must admit I don't have much to add to this but to take a deep breath and keep going!