More Holiness Give Me: Haaaalllleeeelllllluuuuiiiiiiaaahhhhhhhh!!!!

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Haaaalllleeeelllllluuuuiiiiiiaaahhhhhhhh!!!!

Is that disrespectful? Cause I really want to shout that out right now!!!!!

My son came home from preschool with some sight words he was supposed to memorize. So I taped them to the wall and quizzed him and......

Haaaalllleeeelllllluuuuiiiiiiaaahhhhhhhh!!!!

He read "like" and "see"! Honest!!!!! He did!!!!! The heavens opened and light shown down on him and the angels sang and I was ecstatic! My kid can read!!!!!!!

We have continued to practice and he knows all six of those sight words. So, with another round of kindergarten he should be a pro.

(Remember he is in developmental kindergarten right now because of speech delay and his birthday is so so close to the school cutoff of when he would go to kindergarten so he is the VERY youngest in a class so I am going to have him repeat it. whew, long sentence.)

But while I am thrilled for Bo I am saddened because in the back of my mind my heart breaks for my little Rhettie who is still struggling along at a first grade reading level due to his dyslexia. What if his baby brother passes him by? That will be a heartbreak. Wah.

But Rhett is making progress.... and on to more important things...he made two baskets in the basketball game this morning!!!! So you know, if the reading thing doesn't work out he always has that as an option.

One day he told me he was just going to be like dad and not read. I had to explain to him that dad could read, he just didn't. There is a difference. And then I am annoyed at Corey for not reading when he can! If you can you should. It is just rude to those who can't!

Also, I am excited about Rhett's Christmas present. Since he can't read this I am safe to write it, right? 8 books and 8 audio CDs to go with the books of "The Magic Tree House". I am hoping to teach him how fun books are so his desire to read will grow. Plus, research shows that children hearing men read does something good for them but I can't remember what. So hopefully they are read in a man's voice.

Next week I will share with you the AAAAMMMMMAAAAAAZZZZIIIIINNNNGGGGG book I read.

4 comments:

Unknown said...: Here is a good quote for you (or more likely for Corey)...

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Mark Twain; December 11, 2010 at 12:14 PM
Susan said...: Exactly my point!!! Thanks for the quote you quotmeister!; December 11, 2010 at 2:31 PM
Anonymous said...: That's soooooo awesome!!!!!!!!!!; December 11, 2010 at 7:33 PM
Susan said...: Nancy Chamberlain said... Hooray for Bo! I am sure it won't be long before Rhett learns too! You are a good mom for seeing their needs and fulfilling them as best you can!; April 8, 2016 at 1:16 PM

I know it is long but it is life altering!

C.S. Lewis- Meanwhile the cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning...It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. But it is immortals who we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption, and our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."

"Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are course; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fotune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity." Margaret D. Naduald

" Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Nelson Mandela-

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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Haaaalllleeeelllllluuuuiiiiiiaaahhhhhhhh!!!!

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