Two wonderful reads!!

Megumi brought this book home from school a few weeks ago and now everyone in our family who can read has read it!  What a fun book!  The premise is that there are people who gain an extra-special ability, usually around age 13, and it follows them as they try to learn what their ability truly is and how best to use it.  They call the ability they gain their savvy.  Just a hint, one of the characters can control electricity and another can hear radio waves and pull them out of the air.
Our family also recommends that you try the second book in this series: Scumble.  It is also a fun read.

We saw this when we were at the library. and... it was really good. It runs along with the Percy Jackson series, it just focuses on other heroes.

Super Good, Two Tumbs Up, Five Stars, the Jordan stamp of approval...you pick...IT is good! We reccomend it!

note: we are also reading the kane cronicles...we will let you know how it goes...

Ummmm

I totally posted this on the WRONG blog. At least it is all about family!

Godzilla's Spine

Lately, the boys have been into Godzilla...So one day, the Boys came up to me and wanted me to see Godzilla's Spine. I thought, "Okay..." having no idea what that meant.

They showed me this:

Yes, they built the "spine" if Godzilla out of blocks.

please don;t mind the blanket, but the toy shelves behind it distracted the picture. (This was a cool view!) I love that it is so Spine-y...is that even a word?!?

And here are the boys, so proud of their work! I was too! They have the BEST imaginations and they play together PERFECTLY...actually, I take that back, they play together QUITE WELL!!

Merry Christmas

A few of us singing.

Love Ya, God Bless

Baby books- and my debut blog post

In my Maternity and Women's Health nursing class this semester we were each assigned a novel to read and then present to our clinical groups. What? Read a book that isn't heavier than some people's dogs, didn't cost more than $80, and won't be tested over during finals?! In nursing school?! How do you deal with that? It's quite easy to shove textbooks aside when you have an excuse (or not) and when I sat down on the couch to read this book with it's fair share of teenage and medical drama I could convince myself that it was actually homework and that I was not sinning by putting off studying- no guilt necessary. The book I was assigned was Midwives: A novel by Chris Bohjalian. I liked it- entertaining, fairly complex, lots to think about, and made for a fun presentation. (I almost bought it, but couldn't bring myself to because of the small "Oprah's Book Club" symbol on the cover. Yep, that was truly the deciding factor; couldn't own something with that much baggage...Ah well, maybe someday.) It's a fiction novel set in Vermont in the early 80s and tells the story of a lay midwife who works with women wanting homebirth. The main plot has to do with a particular homebirth that goes terribly wrong in pretty much every way possible, medically and otherwise, and shows the midwife's family's experience as they go through a criminal trial relating to the bad outcomes of the birth. It was fascinating- I keep wondering what I would have done in the same situation. Would I have had better foresight? Could more have been done? Then again, the same situation is highly unlikely to happen in the first place- but, what if? It gave me a lot to think about, but even at the end I feel that every family just has to choose what they feel is best for them and birth can be risky any where, any time, and with any attendant- physician or midwife.
Though this is the only one I read, some of the other assigned novels sounded pretty interesting too- add these to the list of books to read before I die: Children Who Sleep by the River, Down Came the Rain, Handle With Care, and especially Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife.

Posted by Chelsea Jordan

Expelled - No Intelligence allowed

I wanted to write a review of the movie that Ben Stein did called "Expelled - No Intelligence allowed" We found it at the local library of all places. It was amazing. He delves into the academic world of biology and shows what happens to anybody who even hints at disagreeing with the theory of evolution. He does not try to show the holes in the theory as much as he tries to show how we are in a dangerous place because scientists are now not allowed to question. It is excellent. I think everybody should see it. At least everybody who reads this blog should see it. Hey, who even reads this blog.

(This was written by Matthew Jordan)