Mothers day

Well it's mothers day, looks like a lot of other days. hmmm, well happy mothers days, and don't except any wooden puppies from strangers you don't know.
I guess I'm supposed to post pictures of flowers, but I'm not very good at that, so I picked a few other mothers day type pics for the blog post

hmm this still doesn't seem like mothers day....

I Know!



perfect.

Well....

Time to do something a little less Christmasy. The season is over, and I need to get all the counters down and whatnot.

We will be back to our normal blog look soon enough. Give me some time to complete it though. I have some ideas to make this place a bit nicer.

As for what I got for christmas, here is the list as I can remember it

A Laptop (Toshiba)
A $50 Sears Gift card to be used for clothes shopping.
A flashlight, umbrella, and soft peppermints
Two albums: No Far Away by Chris August, and Five Score and Seven years Ago by Relient K
Some Board game

Well excuse me as I get to work on Kinderline and I's Blog.

Merry Christmas

I decided not to do a song today. I just wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas.

Oh, and tell me what you all got!

See you all on chat soon! :-D

CHristmas eve

Tonight we go watching the lights, and do our thinking. today we break into the sweets, and eat pie. today play games, and have fun.

In many ways I enjoy this day more than Christmas, because with Christmas there is a little bit of it all being over. This day we spend time together, and have fun. Tomorrow we break into the presents, and try and figure out WHAT some of each other's gifts are. Both are fun, both are exciting in their own way.

So here are some tunes.

Narnia

Well today is the day we go to go see the movie (unless I am sick again, this post is scheduled, i will post a message if we can't make it.) So I figured I will play some Narnia tunes today.

Gearing up

It's getting closer and closer to December 25th, and as that happens everyone starts listening to more christmas music, watching christmas movies,a nd generally having a good time. Today we will be making lots of sweets, and eating the ones we have made. yum yum!

well here's a song.

Why Santa is a false god

I always get disturbed by Christian families promoting Santa Clause. Many people have always done it, and it's now a tradition, and so they don't know why it's wrong. Today i'm first gonna go over why Santa is a false god, then proceed to show you exactly why promoting him even slightly is an abomination.

First is the origins of Santa Clause, which most people believe is Saint Nicholas, but in all reality he has as little to do with Santa as wrapping paper. The Modern Santa largely comes from Odin, who supposedly at Yule would ride an eight-legged horse by the name of Sleipnir. This horse in some traditions leaped from town to town, in others he flew. as part of this tradition Kids were to hang out their stockings filled with oats, carrots, or hay for Sleipnir. and in return for their offering, he would place candies or gifts in their stocking. This tradition clearly hangs around today, but in the place of a horse, he now has a sleigh and reindeer, and instead of carrots, kids leave out cookies and milk as their offering to Santa. 

If his ties to Odin were not enough, the plate of cookies would be alone enough. Part of the tradition of Santa Clause is to leave these cookies so that he in turn will leave presents. you don't leave out cookies, supposedly he won't leave presents. This is clearly biblically banned. there are many, many passages on this but this one will do the best for now. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%204:%2015-40&version=NKJV

Further Parents teach their kids that Santa is always watching them (Hello! sound familiar? Who has this power but God himself?) and can see if they are being Good or Bad,a nd if they are bad he'll give them a lump of coal.

So I'm pretty sure we've established that Santa's a false god. Kids worship him, give him offerings, and behave for him. If you read the passage you would be pretty clear that God allows no other Idols either, but lets make this clearer. He says not to lie or bear false witness, even if all of the above were ok, Santa is a piece of fiction, and if you tell your Kids Santa is real, then they will believe you. They will believe that Santa's real, and you will have lied to them. SO Santa breaks the 1st, and 9th commandments. 

And people wonder why I'm so against him.

more a praise than a thought

I would like to take a moment to thank our God for sending his one and only son to save a totally corrupt earth, that not only hated Him, but twisted his own words against Him. To take this world in hand and try to pull it out of the pit it dug, in stead of burying us to end this hate once and for all.

He gave up everything for only a little, He knew He would never regain the love He showed us, that not even if every heart turn back to Him could it equate to what He did. That He to every sin no matter how small, laws He wrote that we broke, and exempted us. He was the wronged, He was the victim of our fall, and yet He still shrugged it off, and saved us from our own folly.

for those still thinking

For a moment, while we are here, all is quiet. while this moment lasts, we are restful, and in this moment, we find a bit of peace. then that moment slips, gone forever, and forgotten till we long for it again. The chaos sets in, and we stress till our worlds fall apart.

We often complain these moments do not present themselves, but in all reality, it's often up to us to make them happen, and I find especially during the holiday season, people forget to make room for a peaceful moment with God. To separate themselves, and have a time away from their man-made chaos. They let their lives fall and plummet into turmoil until these peaceful moments feel like writhing struggles,that we are gasping for air so hard that we don't enjoy what little we get.

SO to those still thinking, to those who not consumed by chaos, is it not sickly ironic, that a holiday to worship our Saviour, would separate so many spiritually?

just a thought

In a moment, and in a year, we are useless. Every motion we make at first seems insignificant. But one small act can spur a larger one. as one could fight with one person, this could lead to a chain of anger until someone physically gets hurt.

But also, someone who merely raises their family right, and teaches them in a Godly manner, they could raise a great leader, a tool for God, or maybe their grandchild could be the influence to someone truly meant for greatness. Even if it is far down the line, it could make a huge change.

And there is a point to this, God calls us to give our entire lives over. To totally and completely worship and follow him. To obey him, and to do all for him. To do this, even if we ourselves do not make a change in this world, could one day have a dramatic effect on many lives in the future.

it's just a thought.

We resume our daily thoughtfulness

the days have been colder, football has been fun, and we are all gearing up for Christmas.

So as I sit here typing this bland boring blog post, you are probably cuddling up with a cup of cocoa, and secretly humming Christmas carols, but not loud enough for others to hear you (or so you hope.)

So I have something to ask you all. What is to you, the most Christmas food? 

For me it's chocolate covered peanut-butter balls. It's like having a Reese's peanut butter cup, but home made.

I feel like going and taking a walk. so see ya, and enjoy this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cEWPxfSHW4

Another Veggie Tales Christmas

Well Last of my TV series of posts. Hope you have all enjoyed them thus far.

This one lops off a little at the beginning and the end. :-/ haven't found a better version, so now I have to show ya this, but, it's still very good.

Personally this is a favorite of mine.

Veggie Tales: The toy that saved Christmas (Christmas Spectacular edition)

This is not the version I have, but the Only one I could find, It's a classic VeggieTales Episode

Part 1


Part 2


Part 3


Part 4


Part 5


I think it's funny.

Merry Christmas Mr. Bean

I'm no fan of Mr. Bean, I find him to be unfunny generally. SO this one is a bit weird for me. I at least thought it was good for a laugh or two.

In all seriousness

It's one of those things almost everyone does at one point or other. They forget why it is that we celebrate Christmas.

And if you you think it's just because of Jesus's birth, you are wrong.

It's because of his death and resurrection.

See him being born was in all reality just a start, everything he did after was far more important than his birth till finally, he did the most important part of all: He died for our sins, and resurrected, therefore conquering death, and freeing all who accept his gift.

So this year I want you to really think about it. Why we celebrate his birth is because of his Death. without his death and Resurrection, this holiday would be completely pointless.

How thoughtless

well it's today, and with every new today comes with a new thought!......

I don't have any.

...

This could be bad. 

 um

help anyone?

Ok Kevin here filling in for the thoughtless Adam. And I'm gonna show you all a great Christmas tune.

Um Kevin, we need a thought, today's Christmas tune is little Drummer boy.

Right, ok, well I have a suggestion. Don't shop for Christmas presents on Christmas day. Last year I tried that with disastrous results. All of my family members got pocket lint last year. 

back you you Adam

Thank you Kevin for that..... lovely insight. You can be rest assured that most people will heed your warnings.

Ok people, now for your songs. Last year I covered The Little Drummer boy renditions by Jars of Clay, and White Heart. this year I have a new one, and one I personally hate to share with you.

First the new one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvCijhcxC3s

Now the One I hate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHBEMYoxooM



Now the two still dead locked White Heart and Jars of Clay ones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHOgHsKViD4


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHzxpECFm2Q


Now vote for your favorite!

Thinking that I'm not thinking

Today I am gonna discuss Christmas rap. when most people think of christmas, they don't think rap.

That would be because there arn't a whole lot of rap renditions of christmas tunes.

oh that and for some reason most Christmas tunes don't sound good as rap. don't ask me why, it just seems to be a quirk. So today we are gonna listen to some by TobyMac and DC Talk. Some great, and some really really bad.

The Bad


Yo ho ho.
This song is plain annoying, the consolation prize is the song that comes after it. Reason for the Season.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYOvGy1TDlA&feature=related





Next on our bad list will make your ears bleed. It is single handedly the WORST rap rendition ever.
O come all ye faithful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTc1dKNdgo

The Toss Up


Most people love love this tune, and while I admit it's decent, I hate it for throwing in and butchering a Christmas tune I love. Joy to the world

The song is This Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX876kp0jBQ





The Good


Finally the obscure DC talk song. We three kings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5M6kQA6Za8



So, now we know why Rap Christmas is not a growing trend. and probably never will be. still, for those who enjoy their Rap, I have pasted these songs for you to enjoy.

Why we have no Christmas Tree

One would walk into our house and ask us one question:
"Where's the tree?"

This is because we don't really do the Christmas tree. a while back we decided to put the focus more around what Christmas was about, which was Christ's birth, so that he would die for our Salvation. This is why about a decade ago the entire family got together and voted, on whether or not we were going to put our presents around a tree, or a Nativity.

it was unanimous, Nativity won. We had always enjoyed decorating a tree, but everyone liked the nativity idea more, so that year we went out and bought a really nice Nativity, and for once we did not put up a tree.

This worked out quite nicely actually. the Nativity did not take up as much space, so our living room did not feel crowded. (Which happens if you have a small living room) We also had fewer quarrels over setting up a nativity than putting the "good" ornaments on the tree, and most of all, it really DID put more focus on Christ, and not a tree.

We held this vote every year for about five years, when that last year, my parents decided it was set in stone: Five years of unanimously voting for the nativity was getting kind of old, so now it's one of our big Christmas traditions.

Now though, we did not have a huge display, so we went to work putting decorations elsewhere, and it payed off, instead of having one big pretty display, we made the entire house look nice, and fewer people fought STILL because everyone has their own project.

this si one of our traditions, and we love it, what are some of your unique Christmas traditions?

Something like a thought, and probably is a thought, and I shall be stubborn and call it a thought

You might have noticed I generally like harder remakes of classic Christmas songs, well this is one exception. I consider this to be one of the most beautiful renditions of any Christmas song ever done.

Today I do not have much to say, but tomorrow I shall work on talking about one of our traditions.

but I shall leave you with this tidbit of wisdom

Toddlers are impatient, this is something we learned about 5 years ago when our brother Hulk unwrapped HALF the presents and strew them out everywhere, ironically he did NOT open any of his own.
Now days we put most stuff in bags, wrapping paper is only used when it's really needed.

Thought of the day again

So far I have yet to find a good recipe for pasta in a toaster

oh and I like Having someone whom I love, and loves me this Christmas. This is a unique feeling to me. So, I ask, what has been unique to you this Christmas?

I am sorry to tell you that Me and Kindy do not have a song for you, but I am not sorry to tell you that I am putting up a couple of photos of ourselves.

Well um, Do to the fact that Kindy never sent me a winter photo, I will have to um, make do. Here is one of her profile pics.

best I could do. :-P

I will get a song up tomorrow.