Good morning reader friends, I hope your fall is going well! Besides a couple of not so sparkly moments, things are great around here, and I promise to get a homeschooling update post up as soon as I can. (Be sure to comment at this homeschooling post if you don't want to miss those updates, because depending on when I get it up, I may not put it on the KK homepage.)
Have you seen this story? It's an inspiring article but I think the title is just mean: World's Ugliest Woman Gives Courageous Interview. What was sad, though, was this picture of the ‘high caloric foods' she eats. I can think of some MUCH better high caloric options than this stuff! (Thank you Susan for sending, and if ever any of you come across anything interesting online, please email it to me, as I love sharing a variety of articles here on Mondays!)- As much as I didn't want one more social media site to keep track of (I still haven't gotten into Google+, have you?!), I have to say that playing around on my Pinterest board has been fun and can be addicting! I don't have a clue what the correct lingo is, but can you ‘follow my boards' or ‘add me' or whatever you do there? Put a link in the comments below to yours and I'll follow you back!
Have you seen this story? It's an inspiring article but I think the title is just mean: 
- Playing around on Pinterest will be much easier once we get our iPad, but since it'll end up being $650 by the time it's said and done (Apple Care Plan is $100, case is $50), I haven't been able to bite the bullet yet. Do any of you have suggestions for how to get a deal on one of those suckers? We borrowed a friend's over the summer and got hooked. I can't believe how much my kids learned from these awesome apps: Presidents vs. Aliens and Stack the States! Plus I loved it for Pinterest, as I said, plus it was nice having something not as clunky as a laptop but not as small as my iPhone when I'm cooking in the kitchen and following recipes online.
- One of the very sweetest people I've met since I began blogging is my friend, Stanley Fishman, author of Tender Grassfed Meat: Traditional Ways to Cook Healthy Meat
. He wrote a great post recently debunking the screwed up ‘study' that I mentioned last week, which tried to convince us that there's no value in buying organic. Read Stan's take here: When Organic Tests No Better, Check the Soil, and the Bias.
- Speaking of homeschoolng (aren't I always doing that these days?!), thank you Karen for sending along this article: Arkansas Home School Students Now Eligible To Play High School Sports, Participate In Other Activities. Beginning in the 2013-14 school year, home school students in Arkansas will be eligible to participate in all manners of high school activities — from sports to chess club. I wonder if this will become standard across the country?!
Short and sweet today, have a great week everyone!
Illya Gonzalez says
Buy your iPad through their homeschool program and you should get a $50 iTunes gift card.
Illya
KitchenKop says
But that special is only for another week & I can’t afford it right now… 🙁
Too bad they rarely run promos!
Amanda says
The homeschool participation thing varies by state, and some (like Illinois), already allow it. The trouble can be with the school district if they don’t really like supporting the opportunity. It’s the same with special education services here. The schools have to provide services but often the district does its best to make it an undesirable option.
Melissa @ Dyno-mom says
The interview with the woman who lacks adipose tissue was so sobering. If anyone needed proper fats and a saturated fat heavy diet, it is so one who cannot produce any of her own. The answer is certainly not a diet based on refined carbs like Cheez-Its but since she is alarmingly thin rather than uncomfortably fat, she is unlikely to get proper nutritional support. People seem to think that paying attention to diet and health is only for those who struggle with their weight. People who are thin need a proper diet and proper nutrition to be as healthy as they can be.
Jo Schoeneck says
I will love following your Pinterest boards. If you want to follow mine, I am at https://pinterest.com/jo_schoeneck/
Suzy says
Playing around on Pinterest is so much easier on a bigger screen. I am on there a lot on my iphone, but prefer to be on my laptop when perusing.
I was going to tell you that you can just go to where it says “followers” and follow those who are already following you, but then realized you might not want to follow 1200+ people. I am already a follower, but here are my boards if you would like to follow back:
https://pinterest.com/susu14/
KitchenKop says
Yes, that’s a lot to follow, not sure if I should do that or not, but I’ll for sure follow you and any of my readers who comment here, thanks!
Kel
Peggy says
Whether homeschoolers are allowed to participate in sports, music programs and other public school trappings is a state-by-state thing. In Oregon, they welcomed us, and even set up a special department and building for us with computers, educational video games, a lending library and various classes. Well, once they realized they could get tax money for providing services to us, anyway! The climate was downright hostile in California when I was there. Here in TN we are tolerated but not really welcomed. To play on a public school team, the student has to take a minimum of five subjects over the course of the year at the school they play for.
It’s all about the money.
KitchenKop says
Right now our kids are happy doing community ed or YMCA teams, so thankfully I don’t have to look into any of this at the moment!
Kelly
Soli says
About the woman in the first link, it says a lot for people not knowing much about food that she thinks of those bags as acceptable for calories. May she find better nutrition soon.