Hey all – could use your prayers again. Our #2 son, J2 (6), has been in the hospital since Sunday night – and Lord willing, will be home tomorrow. They’ve eliminated the life threatening disease they first thought it was…and now we just wait for more tests. The frustrating thing is we might never know.

Give our recent history, we are a little stressed out. Please pray.

Gotta get back to the hospital.

CNN.com – Forced middle school STD testing draws lawsuit – Jul. 8, 2003

NEW YORK (CNN) — School administrators forced several eighth-grade students to undergo tests for pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases after they attended a party, the New York Civil Liberties Union claimed in a lawsuit filed Tuesday with federal court in Manhattan.

Ok…this isn’t really why I chose to homeschool – but I can’t believe this happened! What about the parents? Couldn’t they be trusted to make sure these children were disciplined? Were they consulted at all?

What a world, what a world?

(Anyone know what movie that’s from? One clue – it really has nothing to do with this topic!)

Thank you all for your kind words and encouragement. I’d like to say that I’m doing better but I’m just continuing forward on this journey – and that is good enough right now.

For a change of topic 🙂 – check out the updated section of our webpage – Eric’s virtual world at http://eric.osbornz.net. He found some interesting linkware art featuring books – and when you click on the spine the information changes in the box below. I’ve got a few more things to fix, but it’s nice all the same! The part of his webpage that I like the most will be where he shares his writings – journals entries or whatever he’s interested in at the time. I’m glad for him to have the outlet! Hope you will check it out!

For those of a geeky nature – like me 🙂 – I used the same program for his writings page as I did for this blog area – Greymatter (link below). I’m pretty impressed with the things you can do with this program! I’ve barely scratched the surface of it’s potential!

Well, I’d better get offline – going to set up our tent at the In-laws in order to see if it’s in ok space for an upcoming campout with our church…and maybe get some swimming in too!