‘Bulletin Board’ Category
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Who’s wasting their vote?
April 18, 2012 by Hannah Jane
Category Bulletin Board | Tags: Humor,Pictures,Politics and the like,Thoughts and Musings | 3 Comments
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Six
March 27, 2012 by Hannah Jane
Has it been this long since I held you for the first time? Since that joyous morning when I walked into Mom and Dad’s bedroom after hearing them calling us, meeting you for the first time? You were so sweet, with long fingers and toes and curly hair.
I’ve always loved your name. In fact, I named my favorite doll Abbie when I was two or three years old. For awhile Lizzy held to the notion that you were actually named after the doll. It took us quite a bit to convince her that you weren’t.
Six years. I blink, and all of the sudden you’re no longer a baby. Time seems like such a vapor sometimes, and it just keeps getting faster.
I recall my sixth birthday. We had a birthday party – my first one with friends over – and played musical chairs and pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey and raced each other for prizes of silly putty and multi-colored pens. One of the little boys tried to scare me with a worm, but at that age I loved worms and snakes and reptiles.
And I felt like such a big kid.
I look at you and I know that I wasn’t really big, but I’m not surprised to see you thinking you are. You watch me and help me and feed me skittles and give me pictures and I feel like I’m watching myself at age six. How is it that time goes so fast?
Wasn’t I just doing that? How come you’re big enough to do it? It’s mind boggling, and I don’t want to blink because then you’ll be in high school (and we won’t talk about how old I’ll be!) and life is so short.
You’ve grown so much since the times I would hold you in Church and you’d suddenly let out an excited shriek, since the times you chewed and slobbered on everyone’s shoulders.
Every day I see you growing in grace and knowledge and sometimes craziness, and I’m so glad you’re my sister. So glad God has given us this time together, however quickly it may seem to pass.
You are a wonderful sister to me, and I’m lovin’ every minute of it.
Happy Sixth Birthday, Abbie!
Category Bulletin Board | Tags: Abigail,Birthdays,Pictures | 1 Comment
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One decade ago today…
February 21, 2012 by Hannah Jane
A decade ago today, Momma told Stephen, Lizzy, and I to go pack overnight bags, that we were going to stay with our friends for that day and possibly overnight. We went to our bedrooms and pulled out some clothes and stuffed them into bags.
“You’re going to get a new baby brother or sister today!” Dad and Mom told us as we tromped into the car. We celebrated and bounced up and down and were a little bit scared, all at the same time.
They dropped us off at the residence of the P__ family, then continued on to their destination.
Our young minds quickly left the topic of new baby and refocused on playing with the other kids. We found the playmobils and guided them through an adventure. We went outside and played on their swing set. We played checkers on a big cracker-barrel style mat thing. We went on a walk around the block with them and their mom.
And then that evening, while coloring pictures with the family’s only girl and Lizzy, using markers from a butterfly shaped art case, I was handed the phone.
“Hi Hannah!” come Dad’s voice “you have a new baby sister! Her name is Esther Ruth.”
Category Bulletin Board | Tags: Elizabeth,Esther Ruth,Stephen | No Comments
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MemVerse
January 27, 2012 by Hannah Jane
I don’t normally do shout-out type of posts on my blog. This is mainly because I just don’t often find something which my friends don’t all already know about.
Pinterest, for example, was already crazy popular when I found it, and I read at least a half dozen different posts all written by different people endorsing and recommending it. While I enjoyed reading each of those posts, I didn’t have any inclination to post about it myself when that many were already giving their opinions.
When I find a blog I enjoy reading I simply “follow” it, and if I really like it it gets added to the “blogroll” page on here. The only exception is when I have to give some sort of shout-out to enter a giveaway.
But now I’m going to break my self-imposed rule and give MemVerse.com a shout-out.
I first found MemVerse through the signature of someone on the Rebelution forums. I clicked the link given, explored the site for a little while, signed up for an account, and promptly forgot about the entire site. #shorttermmemory
I finally remembered about two months ago, and since I was already committed to memorizing several passeges, I didn’t forget about it this time.
It didn’t take me long to realize that I really liked this site. All my current Bible memory work was now in one place, at my fingertips. Typing each verse out helped me remember the verse better. Each verse was systematically presented at optimum intervals, and I was also able to give feedback for how I was doing with each verse. And not only were the verses sticking, but my typing was also improving in speed.
The idea of MemVerse is simple. Type out the verse, wait for the little “correct” button to pop up, rate your memory by clicking a 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, and then proceed to the next verse. Each time you rate your memory on that verse as high, the time interval increases, and every time you rate yourself low, it decreases. When the time interval on a verse exceeds 30 days, the verse is re-categorized from learning to memorized.
I was surprised when I saw how few users there are. It’s funny how sites like Pinterest, which helps you organize your ideas and inspirations, or Picnik, which is a tool you can use to edit photos with, are widely popular while a site which helps you memorize the Bible is not. hm. Obviously, I had to write a blog post about it.
So what are you waiting for? Head on over and start memorizing. :D
Category Bulletin Board, The Living Room | Tags: Bible | No Comments
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Testing!
August 3, 2009 by Hannah Jane
Category Bulletin Board | Tags: misc. | 1 Comment
