Seven Kittens

Opinions of Noble Prize Winners Towards School

So many times, I get asked, "How can he (my 11yo son) learn if he doesn't go to school?" My parents have settled their minds to the concept that we homeschool. I've explained time and time again, that we do not do school at home. We don't do school at all! My son has the freedom to do as he pleases, read what he likes, explore what he chooses. You should see the expression on peoples' faces when I tell them this! Many of them just can't grasp what living in freedom, unschooling, means.

"You give your child freedom?" "You don't make him do anything?" "He gets to sleep in?" "He gets to try everything he wants to try?" "He has no limits?" "How does he learn?" and my favorite "How did he get so smart if he doesn't go to school?"

The answer is simple! Kids love to learn! They are designed to learn, to create, explore, observe, experiment, play,..etc.. In unschooling, parents just make the possiblities available. We play with our kids. We explore with our kids. Many unschooling parents (and homeschooling parents, too) will tell you that they are learning right along with their children.

I love when people who are considered educated share veiw points that prove learning is not mandated to the forced learning of schools. There's a great post over at Learning in Freedom
about what a few Noble Prize Winners feel/felt about school. It's worth the read!

NBC Poll...Hurry Vote!

Will NBC be surprised?

Here's your chance to let the media know where the people stand on our faith in God, as a nation.

NBC is presently taking a poll on "In God We Trust" to stay on our American currency.

Please send this to every person you know so they can vote on this important subject.

Please do it right away, before NBC takes this off their web page. Poll is still open so you can vote:

CLICK ON BELOW, VOTE & THEN FORWARD TO FRIENDS

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10103521/

This is not sent for discussion. If you agree forward it, if you don't, delete it.

By my forwarding it, you know how I feel.
I'll bet this is going to be a surprise to NBC.

"In God We Still Trust"

Eyes Open!

At nine days old, the kittens eyes are open. None are named yet.

Flash & Madeye

Madeye, Flash and Rex playing.

More & More Babies!

Stickers had her babies today!! Yeah!! (I've been informed her real name is Houdini, but she's stickers to me.)



Momma Stickers with her three new kittens. All three are dark and tiger striped. The babies were very hungry so no close ups yet. Sorry.

Here are a couple of new pictures of Suvy's babies:







Aren't they adorable?



Candy's growing up! Please throw the ball?



Flash and Misky

Living Biology

Living Biology is something we get to experience here on our farm.   Over the past few years, I've been sharing many of these experiences as they have come along.  My children have been raised with many pets so I'd like to share with you our newest bebies born just this morning.  First, here is the story of how  these new precious babies came about. 

Hobbs the daddy, was born born here on May 30, 2007.  You can read his birth story at Lamaze for cats?  He and his siblings baby pictures are posted at Introducing Five Little Kittens.  All of the kittens and momma were fixed except for Hobbs.  We kept him intact as he was such a beautiful cat, with a loving personality, which we thought would be excellent in future generations.

Then along came Suvy and Stickers who were rescued on June 11, 2008.  To this day, Stickers, still earns that name.  She's sweet and loving but she just can't grasp the concept that her claws need to be in. Stickers was also a bit of a surprise.  Early in her life, she needed an emergency trip to the twenty-four hour vet clinic.  Her life was saved but the vet insisted that she was a he.  Since that left Suvy as the only unfixed female, we didn't give it another thought.  We were going to breed Hobbs and Suvy and see what type of kittens they'd throw.  You can read Suvy's and Sticker's story at How Many Kittens?

Well, sometimes it's best to trust yourself when sexing kittens.  Both Suvy and Stickers are females.  Early this morning, Suvy gave birth to four beautiful kittens.  Stickers should be having her's soon.  Both mommas are being kept safe inside away from all the other pets.  Poor Suvy was very confused this morning about what those wet noisey creatures were.  My spouse soothed her and got her to lie down and I went and gathered her babies, dried them off a bit, then handed them to James.  He rubbed them on Suvy's face and placed them on her belly.  Poor Suvy was so very confused.  She wasn't taking to motherhood very well and it was beginning to look like it wasn't going to go well.  James encouraged her to lick her babies and I'm happy to report nature has taken over and even the smallest is now nursing!

 

National Geographic has an excellent series called In the Womb for any one who would like to learn more about cats and their development.  I'll post babies pictures once they get a little bit bigger.

Kennedy Space Center Behind the Vistor's Center

Kennedy Space Center invited their employees to invite their friends and families for a behind the scenes tour of the actual facility! Since my husband's best friend is employed there, we were included in this special event! Thanks John!! We love you!



And so the tour begins =):

This is the back end of the real space shuttle minus it's engines. They take them out after every flight to check them out before the next flight.



This is a shot of one of the moving walls inside the OPF (Orbitor Processing Facility). By moving the walls, the space shuttle can be brought in easily and then worked on once the walls move in close.



Here is the Space Shuttle inside the OPF. This is the under belly of the space shuttle. The green tags mark tiles that need replacing.



This picture speaks for itself =P



George in front of one of the Space Shuttle's engines.



Dad & son in front of engine.



Sibling love.



How would you like a set of these at $4500.00 each?



This is a demonstration of just how much control they have over the crane they use. They have this monstrous wheel sitting on an egg. Interesting...







Dad explaining how it all works. These are the moments that I treasure being married to an extremely smart engineering minded man. =D



Now this is my type of tool! This is an airbrush!!



Pilot Parachute.





Learning happens all the time.