Seven Quick Takes on Discounted Lipstick, Cataloging the Family Library, New Books, and More!

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I highly recommend checking Amazon to see if they carry stuff you usually buy at places like Target. I was frustrated recently when Target was out of stock of my standard lipstick color. I have worn the same color of the same type of lipstick every single day for the past seven years with very few exceptions. I like it. And Target is where I buy it, only someone else bought my color out! Boo hiss. It dawned on me that maybe Amazon would have it. Um. Yeah! They had it. I usually buy one tube for around $8, and they sold me three tubes for $11 including tax and shipping.

I don’t usually do math in the summertime, but that was less than half price people!!

So check and see. It might save you a bundle.

 

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Last week, we watched Edge of Tomorrow. It’s basically Groundhog Day meets Independence Day, if you ask me. Also, Tom Cruise plays a wimp, which was refreshing. It was remarkably clean for a movie like this — action, I mean.

I always think alien movies are fun movies — probably because I only rent the fun ones — so it was a nice way to relax on a Friday evening.

 

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This week’s links collection:

• The Duggar Disaster by Todd Pruitt
  • I have wondered if this issue with churches not contacting local authorities and trying to deal with issues in-house has to do with them not recognizing that God has granted government sphere sovereignty over these areas. Basically, they need to read more Kuper…
• To the Moms: Just Stop It from The Accidental Missionary
  • I don’t get “Pinterest stress” ever. But if you do, you will probably find this post encouraging.
• Surgical Sex from First Things
  • I wanted to avoid this topic, but I thought this was a good history lesson.
• Anarchy, Tyranny and the 2016 Election from The Stream
  • I forgive the editor for not using an Oxford comma and share this article as evidence of this fact. Also, it was short and made some important points, I thought. Not saying I agree with all of it, but the anarchy/tyranny dichotomous was interesting.

 

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I said that I wasn’t going to buy any more education books until I’d finished the ones I was already reading. Well, is it cheating if Classical Academic Press sent me a copy, free of charge?? It’s a book I’ve been wanting oh so very much…The Liberal Arts Tradition is less than 175 pages, meaning it’ll easily fit in my purse this summer.

I cannot wait to crack it open! Anyone else reading it?

 

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This month in 2013:

I was thinking about Charlotte Mason’s second principle, in which she says that “children are not born either good or bad, but with possibilities for good and for evil.” A little Dickens and a bit of Jane Healy helped us out. Click here to read it.

 

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Remember that child I put on a no-sugar diet? He’s still doing great.

Except that I found a bag of Peppermint Jo-Jo’s in his drawer. He claims they were there before the diet, and that he hasn’t been eating them…

Sigh.

 

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Answering Your Questions:

• Question: How do you keep track of books each kid has read? The books you own?
  I’m looking for an app/program to scan books and make records of these things. It’s so overwhelming! And the best ones seem to be for Apple and Mac products. Would you share on your blog how you do this?
  • Answer: Well, my approach is fairly low-tech, so I don’t know if it’ll be helpful or not. I don’t have a smart phone and so I can’t scan bar codes or anything. Many years ago, my husband and I spent a tax refund on some bookshelves for our library. Since we were moving all the books around anyhow, it seemed like a good time to catalog them in some way. At the time, Shelfari was a Thing. I still use it to this day — to catalog books, I mean. I don’t use the social aspects of it. This was a long time ago, and I manually typed everything in. After that, I just added in books as we acquired them. My oldest keeps a running list for each year — yes, on paper. 🙂 I keep a list in the footer of this blog of all the books I finish reading {you all should be grateful I don’t add the ones I start! Ha!}. And then there are the school lists. That’s about it. I make lists at the beginning of the year for each child and print them off and then mark off when they’ve been read.