Abundant Crosses and Cross Parties

Well, I am trying to have a side business to the online company of www.AbundantCrosses.com. It would be Cross Parties. All the items sold at these parties would be different than what is sold online. I will also have for sale items that have rhinestone paw prints and tigers on them so that you can wear these to the local football games. I am trying right now to come up with a catalog, hostess rewards, and a commission plan. I will announce later when I will start signing up hostesses.

On another note www.AbundantCrosses.com will be at Deck the Halls. The Christmas event held at the civic center in Mount Pleasant, TX on Nov. 22 and 23. Everyone is invited to come and see what is for sell. I will be selling cross jewelry there and taking orders for shirts and wall crosses. Come out and purchase a cross for someone special for christmas.

School Next Year

I found out a couple of years ago that there was a Texas Virtual Academy at SouthWest. But, it only covered the Houston area. This is a virtual public school. The kids stay home as if they are homeschooled but they have classes through TVAS that uses the curriculum of www.K12.com.

Since it is a public school everything is free. They send you a loaner computer, software, all class materials, access into k12.com, and a stipend for your internet service. They also say they can cater to gifted children more so than a regular public school b/c the child can work up to 2 grades ahead.

This year I found out that extended the school to include the Dallas area and parts of East Texas. Mount Pleasant is now in there zone. I started checking into them more and found out that they don't start taking kids until they are 3rd graders. I called and talked to them about Zachary. They said he was too young this year but I really wasn't interested in signing him up for 3rd grade this year. I asked them about next year? He will technically be the age to start 2nd grade but he is now working on a 2nd-3rd grade level. Could he enroll into 3rd grade next year? This would mean he would on paper skip 2nd grade, but he is not skipping the material b/c we have already covered it or we are covering it this year. They said they would accept him next year as a 3rd grader.

They start enrolling for the following year in Jan. or Feb. So, Mark and I have to decide if we want to try this type of public school or not. The pros are that it is free, we wouldn't have to dish out a lot of money to school him at home. We could get a stipend for our internet. It would be more stuctured. He can still work at his own pace. And if we decided to put him back to MPISD he would go in with a one year grade skip. MPISD would have to accept the skip and the trasfering grade placement. The cons are that our interent goes down doing bad weather and we couldn't get online. I don't know if he would like learning from a computer (only 25% if from the computer the rest is through textbooks). If they allow the one grade skip does that count towards the only can work 2 grade ahead? What if he is working more than 2 grades ahead, will they allow him to move forward or hold him back? And i'm sure there are more.

Or do we just not do this at all and continue doing what we have been doing this year? We have a lot to think about in the next few months.

Mom and Me Cub Scout Campout 2008

This is the monkey bridge made out of rope.

The boys learned how to bowl.

Zachary and I go exploring by the river.

The place was so pretty.

Somone feel asleep on the way back home. He had such a good time.

This past weekend Zachary I went to the Mom and Me Cubscout Campout. Zachary is in Pack 777 and is a Wolf Cub. We walked up and down many hills. This was my first camping trip and my first time putting up a tent by myself. The tent went up fine and we all had a blast.

Are Christians Racist?

I ask this question because of a post I read the other day. A little girl ask her mother if that couple (the lady was white and the man black) was married and if that was wrong. The mother then ask the little girl does me and daddy have the same color hair? The child said "No". The mother ask do we have the same color eyes. The child said "No" again. The mother said are we the same height, the same weight, etc... The child's answer was always "No". The mother then said that God created Man and Women. He didn't create a White Man and a White Women. And that the color of one's skin is just like the many other differences in our appearence. The women ask they child why she thought it was wrong but the little girl couldn't say why. The women blames society and living in the South.

After reading this post it got me to wondering. I have always heard from one person in particular, who I go to with question about the bible and he has always said that the bible says marriage of a different skin color was wrong. So, I did some digging into the bible. This is what I have found.

Numbers 12:1-16. It tells how Moses was married to an Ethiopian women and how Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses. The Lord became angry with Aaron and Miriam for speaking against Moses. He then made Miriam White with Leprous. Moses pleaded with the Lord and eventually she was let back into the group.

There are other passages in the bible that says that the Lords children shouldn't marry a particular group of people but it doesn't say because of the skin color. It says that they will turn your sons against the Lord and towards their Gods. He also says that we shouldn't marry others who are not Christians, but still nothing about different color skin.

So, far I have found no passage in the bible saying anything against marriage or dating of someone of a different color than yourself. So, this gets me to wondering if Christians have become racist because the world sees marriages of different colors as wrong? Even if the bible doesn't say it is wrong to do so anyone who does will have to deal with a harsh life. With the looks from others who believe it to be wrong and sinful.