Stone Soup for Five: May 2014

5 things to understand about porn


The last time I spoke on this topic of porn, I had a list of 10 things you can do when your son (or daughter) has been deliberately viewing porn.  
Today we will try to understand a little bit more about it.



I'm very blessed to have an amazing pastor at our church (one of many gifted pastors at our church, actually) who is not afraid to speak bluntly and clearly on what to do to help our children who are going to have to learn how to deal with this.  When we spoke today, he opened my eyes to some great truths, and I hope they can do the same for you.  


What We're Playing -- Board Games

I'm quickly becoming a Board Game Geek, which is fun, because I used to avoid games of all kinds for years.  Having only been exposed to Monopoly (Really? MUST it drag on for days?  Especially when you play with your older brother who ALWAYS ended up with monopolies and Boardwalk and Park Place... while I ended up with a random St. James Place, Reading Railroad --because I loved the thought of reading on a train--and Oriental Avenue--because egg rolls), Sorry (HATE that game), and Scrabble (3 letter words were usually the best I could do).

So I kind of ventured back into board gaming without the best attitude, especially after dozens of Candy Land and Hi Ho Cherry Oh games with my young boys.

It wasn't until we went to a mysterious store up the road from our home called Rainy Day Games, that I realized there was a whole secret world of FUN games out there.



3 Months into the Bullet Journal--An Update

In February, I stumbled across a new kind of planner/journal that I was excited to try. I had never heard of it before, and what it promised to do seemed simple and amazing.

It's called a Bullet Journal and you can see the basics of its layout here:

Because I'm a jump-in-with-both-feet kinda girl, I immediately got a nice new Moleskine notebook (always happy to have an excuse to buy a new journal!) and was ready to try it out.