She's in the national spelling bee. I think it is sponsored by a few hundred newspapers. This is as much a lesson in hearing and trusting the Lord as it a spelling bee for her though, he has been helping us in an amazing way, I didn't expect that but he sure is doing it.

It's firmament, not furmament, unless there are 2 spellings for that word but I don't think so, those must be just pronounciations. We don't read that stuff, it's confusing. Transparent. We have more going on than that even but I can't discuss it yet. I never relied on school to teach her, especially reading, spelling. they stopped using phonics in a lot of places years ago which is probably why kids have difficulty spelling these days. I started teaching her ABC's at age 2, just barely age two, we were well into phonics by age 3. I'm not the homeschool type. Last year's winner was a homeschooled kid though, says a lot I think.

Yeah, the house sounds like it's going to be great, the dust does not sound fun. Your shoulder aches may actually be related to that. The gypsum dust (wallboard/sheetrock/compound) is poisonous you know. You might want to pick up a heavy duty shop vac (brand name, gypsum won't break it) and take 20-30 minutes to do a good sweep with it everyday. I didn't realize you had all this going on all this time, I would have mentioned it before. I started getting those burning shoulder blade aches when I was doing a lot of work with murals and fancy finishing, lots of gypsum dust involved. Might be connected anyway, I wouldn't outrule it.

Well I am up for a big day of firewood collecting today and then I get my new skiis mounted later. My old skiis have sort of had it... what fun... will be in a few days anyway. I love racing down a slippery slope, my absolutely number 1 favorite pleasure. I trained as a slalom racer as a kid for a bit. till I broke my leg on an icy mogul.. anyway the season is well upon us I have so much Christmas stuff to do yet.

I hate wordspell. Wordspell hates names and stuff, difficult. We're at odds. Sometimes it's appropriate to mispell anyway, on a board like this.

I have been doing the daily liver cleanse, oh every 4-5 days or so, instead of the big liver flush, simply haven't had the time to get to that. But I was feeling a bit clogged a few days ago and the daily cleanse (I use grapefruit juice, lemon juice, olive oile, I put some clove oil in). I have a cute santa-fish card your daughter will enjoy, on a different machine though I will find it later for you.

hope mom is well, both moms!