Me and My Five Boys

I stumbled on this important information while looking at cool tree photos through a link in my friend Bullknitter's blog. Thought I'd share, just in case you don't know how your lightsaber works. If you have one, it would really be responsible of you to know.

http://www.bspcn.com/2007/05/08/how-lightsabers-work/

Beware, this site is addictive!

Edit: And the content isn't always clean and safe....

Labels: trivia

Haven't blogged for a couple weeks. Guess there just wasn't much blog-worthy and/or exciting to write about. But I've been looking for something and today I found it--the first crocuses poking up out of my flowerbeds! I like being back in a climate with four seasons, and I like winter. I even like snow and cold--for a time. But along about, oh...NOW!, middle of February, I get sick of it all and want green, warm, blossomy spring to hurry right along. So seeing crocuses makes me happy and hopeful that the snow is finally all going to melt, that the temperatures will gradually get warmer, and that I can go back to jackets and sweatshirts and put all the coats away. Yay!

We haven't done much with our yard since we moved in last August, but I did plant crocus and daffodil bulbs in the two flowerbeds in the front yard. Then my neighbor told me there were already lots of bulbs in those two beds. I'm looking forward to seeing what actually comes up. Maybe I'll have some beautiful flower pictures to post in the next several weeks. And I tend to be pretty good at flower photos--unlike kids, they hold still. :-)

Labels: flowers

I'm pretty picky about the movies that I'm willing to pay full price to see in the theater. Jeff and I see very few, and we take our kids to even fewer. But we are VeggieTales fans at our house, and wanting to support the people who make such fun clean family movies, we decided to take all the kids to see "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything" movie for Family Home Evening tonight. It was fun and it was clean and it was VeggieTales, but it just wasn't up to their high standards of quality and cleverness. The kids enjoyed it, but the adults were a little disappointed. The killer Cheese Curls were funny, and the Rock Monster song at the end may have saved it for Jeff, but they needed more of it--more pop culture references, more Silly Song-type stuff to go along with the cute story and characters and the positive message. Phil Vischer, Mike Nawrocki, and Kurt Heineke have done better. The early VeggieTales episodes (pre-2003 Big Idea buyout) are still the best. Bottom line: Buy the DVD when it comes out, but don't bother taking the kiddos to see it on the big screen.

Labels: movies, reviews