‘Ink Re-Cap 141. Sketches and Scribbles of Life
‘Ink Re-Cap 141.
Sketches and scribbles of life.
The good, the better, the best.
We’re all just walking each other home.
‘Ink Re-Cap 141 Sketches and Scribbles
Here’re our blog offerings of the week.
Do you love vintage windows? We do, especially when they’re Wedding/Anniversary keepsakes. And we love stories about how God brings weddings about.
We added Honeybee Monogram Shelf Sitters for Baby’s Nursery to our free printable library, and this week we added a post to Kim’s Birth Story.
There’s 10 Ways to Organize Your Favorite Recipes from last week, and some fall homespun flavor: My Mom’s Shepherd’s Pie, Comfort in an Iron Skillet
The g’littles came for sleepover last week, and we did this Fun Back to School Project. This week we gave you a free August Calendar Printable.
Last Friday we had a children’s Bible Lesson printable. This week this Ram Dass quote was on our minds.
It’s not a Peterbilt.
So this happened this week.
This grandma climbed up into a giant truck for a spin around the block,
in my son’s new to him rig.
And I don’t know if all 18 wheelers are like this, and this one doesn’t have a sleeper,
but that cab is little!
I thought truckers motored around our interstates in luxury,
like a living room on wheels.
But this truck, which I admit is not new, in fact, seems quite old if you go by the accumulated scuffs and real estate in there, is a squeeze. My sister-in-law rides with her hubby almost 24/7 and I’m amazed. She even finger knits while driving.
All I can say is, my finger knitting wouldn’t happen. I felt like I was back on the farm, driving ol’ Molly the 930 JD back and forth on a wheat field with a disc behind. Jerking, bumping, grinding gears, and so on.
But, hey, my son had a grin as wide as a Texas ranch. (And please, God, he never goes that far away on this new truck!)
‘Ink Re-Cap 141 Most read posts of the week:
Thank you, dear readers, for visiting our blog again these two weeks.
These posts topped the chart:
Kim’s Story, Chapter 5: A Road Trip, Wedding and Funeral
True Love Never Dies When God Has a Plan
Note: There’s a side bar on all blog pages that helps you get to the topic you most want to read about. The main topics are Weddings, Babies, Kitchen, Crafts and Inspirational Stuff.
New Products in the Shop
As I said earlier, “We’re all just walking each other home” has been on my mind this week.
With certain events in our life and the appreciation we feel for the support of our Church family,
we needed to make a card that showed our thankfulness for the empathy.
Another of our favorite designs: watercolor art card with hand deckled edges.
Top Sellers This Week
This Personalized Recipe Album is on it’s way to Texas.
Inspiring Inklings of Real Life
Why I said it’s not a Peterbilt:
Our Conference School Committee has been hosting a few teacher seminars this summer.
More than usual, because they couldn’t have any last summer, due to the pandemic.
We listened to a live stream of a round up of this week’s 3 day seminar in Missouri,
and the Peterbilt story was one of my take-aways.
A workshop leader spoke on curricula, which are chosen and recommended with great care.
A teacher may think he’s not getting the lessons across effectively because the curriculum is lacking.
But he asked them to consider a Peterbilt truck.
He said Peterbilts are the best, with reliable, even superb performance.
But if you came upon a Peterbilt upside down beside the road,
would you say it was the truck’s fault? That the truck was faulty, even though it passed its pre-flight check? (My son says the pre-trip check for a truck is practically like a jet’s check list. They don’t just walk around and kick the tires.)
So, the speaker asked his audience, would you say a failed lesson was the curriculum’s fault or the “driver’s” fault?
Since I have grandchildren using our recommended curricula, and have taught some of them myself, I would have to reluctantly say, the teacher needs to go to another seminar.
Inspiring Book: “Christy“
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I read this classic about a schoolteacher years ago, and re-read it every few years.
You won’t be disappointed. A nineteen year old city girl taking on a classroom of kids in the Appalachian hills? Pure gold.
Your children might enjoy a teacher book of their own:
Try “Matilda” by Roald Dahl (Author). Or “Sahara Special” by Esme Raji Codell (Author)
Roald Dahl is an author you can depend on.
Sahara has to repeat 5th Grade and she can’t imagine it will be any better the second time around. But when you have the right teacher…
Miscellaneous
Our totally useless factoids for the week are all about teachers.
How many hours a typical teacher works per week.
What a teacher contributes to society.
Inspiring Quote
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