My Favorite Blog Took a Break

One of my favorite blogs took a break and nearly broke my heart this summer.

Okay, well maybe the devastation was not quite so severe, but I was pretty disappointed...at first.

I look forward to reading Rowdy Kittens and I love what Tammy reflects on and how she shares.

Back at the end of June, when Tammy posted her 'Taking a July Digital Sabbatical: Why and How?', I think I nearly fell off my chair!

She was leaving the Internet and her blog behind for an entire month! HUH!?

How would she survive this? How would her readers not go somewhere else?

Why would she do that?

After a long and (semi) patient wait, she returned from her vacation, and I received her August 1st post!

And now I know why she did it.

An inspiration to everyone wanting to relax, reconnect (and not via the Internet), read, write and just 'be'...

Read her blog today...A Beginner's Mind: Insights from my Digital Sabbatical

Thanks Tammy!

(Going away for a month did not make me forget about your messages...it made me look forward to them more;)

Truly,

Amber

Tropical Puzzle

The internet and gaming units have been popular because of their ability to entertain us and keep our attention.

I have always enjoyed good old fashioned puzzles though, and recenly I wondered, with all of this fangdangled technology now-a-days, is this type of puzzle dead? (If the tropical one does not load right away, use the slide tab below the photo to chooose the 19th one to the right...or browse the others!)


I was amazed! I could actually do a jigsaw puzzle on the computer!
I didn't need to go to the store to buy one! (Gotta love the internet.)

Problem is...I almost cannot sit still enough to complete it!

You try...and see how fast you can do this puzzle before your attention span expires!(Gotta hate the internet!)

Happy Friday!

Truly,

Amber

Cat vs. Internet - A MUST SEE!!

 

     Fun Friday

Happens to the Best of Us

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/253wzW/theoatmeal.com/comics/cat_vs_internet

Truly,

Amber

Did you know?

The kids are off from school today and I was blessed to be able to work from home.
Thanks Boss!

I've had a household routine since my kids were very small. It's called Quiet Time.
After lunch, we take a time out. They are allowed to read on their beds and nothing else. My oldest is 13 and she loves it. I've been doing this since a friend suggested it to me when I had my third child about 6 years ago. She said it would be good for me and for them.  It lasts about 1 to 1 1/2 hours.

Today, I asked them what they were reading and checked out the books they chose. My middle child loves non-fiction and so she is really into Lassie, science-type books and World Record books. I remembered the Guiness Book and Ripley's Believe it or Not when I was her age, so I chose to flip through her World Record pages.

As I  read through some of the facts, I was interested to find how many times the U.S. made it on the top of the charts. I'm not sure if it's good or bad, so I will let you develop your own opinions.

Did you know that according to the Book of World Records 2009 (Scholastic):

               THE UNITED STATES TOPS THE LIST IN THESE CATEGORIES:

• The country that watches the most T.V.-56.7 hrs. per week
• The country with the most websites-54.64 million
• The country with the most internet users-210.2 million (we account for 17% of the users worldwide, women are first in line, then men, then teens ages 12-17 with the avg. hours per week spent online=14
• The most movie screens-38,852 inside of 35,000 movie theaters
• The country that spends the most on toys-$36.5 billion
• The country with the most roads-3,995,186 miles
• The country with the most vehicles-238 million registered, 136.5 of them being passenger cars the rest commercial

......And one record that has nothing to do with the U.S. what-so-ever, and I wish I hadn't looked at it:

The World's Largest Spider at 11 inches..The Goliath Birdeater.. As if Goliath didn't say enough about his size they needed to give him two names. (Apparently this spider doesn't eat birds. Oh.. well, that's comforting...)

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