Blog This Mom!: Four Years of Therapy, Three Facebook Status Updates, Two Blog Posts, and Forty Holes Later

Favorite Quotes

You want to see a miracle? Be the miracle.
~God in Bruce Almighty

If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?
~God in Evan Almighty

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
~George Bernard Shaw

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
~Albert Einstein

Just follow your heart. That's what I do.
~Napoleon Dynamite

I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.
~Frank Costello in The Departed

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
~Mark Twain

This is a doughnut stuffed with M&Ms. That way when you're finished with the doughnut you don't have to eat any M&Ms.
~Dr. Rick Marshall in Land of The Lost

I can't control the cards I'm dealt, just how I play the hands.
~Professor Randy Pausch

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
~Professor Randy Pausch

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
~Michael Jordan

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
~Mohandas Gandhi

To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing.
~Raymond Williams

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Four Years of Therapy, Three Facebook Status Updates, Two Blog Posts, and Forty Holes Later

This is the reason that this happened.

19 comments:

Jen on the Edge said...: Wow. Looks amazing.

BTW, love the pearls. She looks so grown up.; January 22, 2011 8:18 AM
smalltownmom said...: The holes are perfect.; January 22, 2011 8:24 AM
just jamie said...: There are lights on her board. Like, real lights. Holy wonderfulness.; January 22, 2011 8:49 AM
Sam said...: You are a woman who knows her holes.; January 22, 2011 8:58 AM
Shana said...: Thank God Carlie is at then"art school", where the more unstructured and wonky the project, the better. PS awesome job, Cheri! I mean Laura.; January 22, 2011 9:52 PM
Gary's third pottery blog said...: NO WAY...lights, camera, action!; January 23, 2011 2:04 AM
Jason, as himself said...: And worth every bit of it.

But those holes look a little off. OMG, they're glaringly unprecise. I'll bet Laura got an F because of them.; January 23, 2011 10:42 AM
Chris said...: It's more spectacular than I could have ever imagined! Congratulations to Laura [she looks pretty pretty] and your whole hole strategy worked!; January 23, 2011 12:21 PM
dkuroiwa said...: Lord Almighty! Science projects have certainly improved since I was teaching in the States!! Lights!! and yes, perfectly spaced. the Laura/Cheri team has another success under their belts.
and the pearls? perfect.; January 23, 2011 3:23 PM
Green Girl in Wisconsin said...: Giving you both an "Atta Girl!" shout out from Dairyland!; January 23, 2011 6:59 PM
kcinnova said...: Oh, shoot. It's nearly time for the science fair! I'm so unprepared...

(Great display!); January 24, 2011 3:36 AM
Stu said...: I think that one light, no, the other one, not that one, the one right next to it looks a little, well, just, oh, it's fine, my bad.; January 24, 2011 10:21 AM
Janet said...: if y'all lived near me, you'd easily distinguish between varying winter temps. Oh. WATER temps. Never mind!; January 24, 2011 12:43 PM
Rima said...: It's perfect. Perfect, I tell you! And I don't give complements lightly when it comes to symmetry.; January 24, 2011 5:36 PM
Seraphine said...: wonderful science project.
wonderful smile.
wonderful mom.
you make a great team.; January 24, 2011 9:20 PM
yogurt said...: Mom wields a hole puncher? Lucky student!

As a mom of approximately nine science projects, I can tell you my children suffer from hole deprivation.; January 25, 2011 4:55 PM
San Diego Momma said...: Those holes are the most holey holes in all of HoleLand. Holy holes.; January 25, 2011 5:55 PM
tinsenpup said...: Sometimes I'm really glad we homeschool... :); January 27, 2011 4:45 AM
MJ said...: Gorgeous science project. Why am I typing gorgeous?! Actually, I noticed the title of the project (which was interesting of itself) first before I noticed the lights. Yes, I am a geek. But the lights are a lovely touch, as is the pearl necklace! Very classy!; January 30, 2011 8:56 PM