More Yogurt Reviews

I'm always trying new yogurts when they come on sale, and this week I tried "Pure" by Dannon. I was impressed that all the ingredients are normal ingredients.

I was even more impressed with the taste and the whole-milk-yogurt cream feel. It eats like pudding.

My first thought was "Wow. That's good." My second thought was, "Wait, where is that 'yogurt' flavor? This tastes like cream." Like a delicious. sweet, thick, rich strawberry cream. SO yummy.

Sure enough, there is no mention anywhere on the package of yogurt cultures. Not only no live active cultures. None at all. Not even in the ingredients.

They have made a fantastic treat with Dannon Pure. But it's not yogurt. I'm not sure how they are justifying calling it that.

Did I just read that?

"The advantage Wal-mart has over those stores is that it can make up for any losses it takes in the food isles in higher margin departments like apparel." http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2012/03/28/wal-mart-plans-to-reduce-grocery-prices-by-1-billion/#ixzz1qYeNNe3c

Are the food isles in the Pacific? Atlantic? Great Lakes?

Tim's latest video--parody of Twilight

Did I just read that?

"The suspect is described as an African American male in his 30's with short or bald hair. " http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/27/georgia-police-search-for-man-targeting-children/?test=latestnews#ixzz1qN61Guhu

Bald hair. I love it.

Did I just read that?

Sent to me by my sister, Beth:

"Racist Hunger Games fans disappointed at the box office. "


The non-racist fans were okay with it, though. 

Did I just read that?

"SEAN HANNITY, HOST: Michelle Obama sat down with David Letterman for an interview that will air later tonight on CBS, which is highly unusual, especially considering the vial comments that the host made about Governor Palin's daughter back in 2009."  http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/2012/03/20/liberal-double-standard-michelle-obama-sits-down-david-letterman?intcmp=obnetwork#ixzz1pzFP2Dxc

Apparently making comments about vials--perhaps vials of perfume?--is vile.

Elijah says....

Elijah (16 mo old) was listening to Nathie watching "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh." A song came on that referred to "the quick-thinking, unshrinking Pooh Bear" (or something like that).

Almost immediately Elijah began singing at the top of his voice--"aaah, aaaah, aahh  Hoo Raaar!"

I guess that works, Pooh sounds like "Hoo," which is Elijah's word for "owl" (and they do talk a lot about Owl in that video). And "raaar!" is Elijah's word for "bear."

Now I'm wondering what he thinks that song is about....an owl bear?

Caleb says, "

"So...a heptadecapocalyptic world is one that has gone through 17 apocalypses, right?"


Uh...yeah. Wait...What?!

Caleb's latest

Caleb loves to write comics. Here is his latest online comic: http://cloudsoftime.smackjeeves.com/comics/1435297/prologue-part-1-and-so-starts-another-day/

Did I just read that?

Craigslist strikes again: "Responsible and Conscious House Cleaner Needed this Week - (Boulder) domestic gigs" (http://boulder.craigslist.org/dmg/2887003622.html)

I don't know--are you sure an unconscious house cleaner won't do? They're much quieter.

Did I just read that?

"Tim Barter, 32, from the U.K., fell 25 feet when a drainpipe collapsed beneath him and slipped into a coma for 10 days." http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/03/01/doctors-use-fat-from-mans-stomach-to-repair-head-injury/?intcmp=obnetwork#ixzz1nvRFNbnX

Drat those drainpipe comas. They cause all kinds of grief.

Did I just read that?

"Lawsuit: Woman claims man struck her with horse"

He struck her with a baseball bat or his fist or a horse. So sue him.

Did I just read that?

"Report: Women have rare egg-producing stem cells" http://www.9news.com/news/world/252255/347/Report-Women-have-rare-egg-producing-stem-cells

If all women have them, the cells hardly qualify as rare...

Did I just read that?

"La. chimpanzees get pregnant despite vasectomies"  http://www.9news.com/news/sidetracks/252288/337/La-chimpanzees-get-pregnant-despite-vasectomies-

Maybe that's because they were female?

New culinary invention

Not sure this actually counts as culinary, but this was our new treat invention: milk chocolate covered fruit snacks.

I melted a bag of milk chocolate chips in the microwave. Then I opened 12 packets of fruit snacks into the melted chocolate. I added half a bag of mini marshmallows (fruity colors and shapes variety). Stirred them all up and spread the concoction on a sheet of wax paper to harden and cool.

The verdict?

Well, it's gone.

Did I just read that?

" "Perhaps this transaction was appropriate because Young happened to be the namesake of the school's grandson."  http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765552641/BYU-recovers-stolen-painting-from-Swiss-barons-estate.html?s_cid=rss-32

How a school has a grandson is something of a mystery....

Did I just read that?

"When rescuers arrived at the scene, Skyllberg was emancipated and barely speaking. He had no food or water with him, only cigarettes and comic books, the Daily Mail said. It was believed he had been eating snow."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/02/20/swedish-man-survives-two-months-in-sub-zero-temperatures-by-hibernating-in-car/#ixzz1mug3vs6J

EMACIATED.  The word is "emaciated."

Sheesh.

Did I just read that?

"The proposed fixes include making sure more information becomes public when children are abused or killed after coming into contact with social workers. " http://www.9news.com/moms/article/249704/499/Child-care-program-improving-after-43-children-die

So social workers are murdering kids? Great.

Homeschooling mantra

I walked past a box today full of papers and noticed one sticking out with my handwriting on it. So I pulled it out--it was a page of notes that I had written the day I decided I really could succeed at homeschooling without the help of a cyberschool or an established curriculum.

It is the set of rules I was to live by that would make homeschooling successful. A mantra, if you will. It says:

#1 -- Learning Is Fun
#2 -- I can do it better
#3 -- Exposure to Everything Good
#4 -- The truth (and Resources) are out there
#5 -- (K-6) They're gonna do it again--no stress
#6 -- Reductionism -- Concepts before details

On another page I found,
"1. Learning Is Active
2. Experience-based education
3. We aren't in a hurry"

So there you have it--a mixture of my own reassurances and my own educational philosophies when I was getting started.

And you know what? I CAN do schooling better than the public schools can. Learning actually IS fun. And the resources were truly out there (and free).

It's a lot of work to make my own curricula, but it's fun, and hopefully it will make homeschooling LESS work for other families.

Did I just read that?

From an official email from Longmont City today: "Water Board Vacancy"

Anyone want to apply to be tortured?