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Post by duchessashley on Feb 24, 2009 12:21:49 GMT -5
Seraphim, that's awesome! Thanks for the laugh!
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Post by duchessashley on Apr 15, 2009 10:17:13 GMT -5
*beaming with pride* Jack, my three-year-old, just asked to watch Star Wars: A New Hope. Proof that affinity for sci-fi is genetic! He must get it from my side, though, since my husband isn't a sci-fi geek like me.
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Post by torainfor on Apr 15, 2009 13:27:37 GMT -5
We let Jack watch Tron for the first time last weekend. He loved it. He even paid attention enough to ask questions about it. He hasn't brought it up again, though. Too enamored with the horror that is "Ben Ten Alien Force."
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Post by duchessashley on Apr 15, 2009 14:22:56 GMT -5
*high-fives the other sci-fi geek moms*
Yeah, my Jack loves Yo Gabba Gabba and the other Noggin shows. It was a brief glimmer of A New Hope, but a glimmer nonetheless!
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Post by duchessashley on Apr 23, 2009 10:31:47 GMT -5
So...if you couldn't tell, my life is wrapped up in my little ones. I have another story to share!
Before I got married, my brother and I were roommates and super Star Wars freaks. I had a Luke Skywalker doll that came with Han Solo frozen in carbonite.
We're visiting my brother for a few days. Jack, my three-year-old, just found the Han Solo replica. He brought it to me and said, "See? That's Jesus, dying on the cross."
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Post by morganlbusse on Apr 23, 2009 12:17:28 GMT -5
Ha ha, love this post and all you other sci-fi/fantasy geek moms! I'm lucky in that my hubby is also a geek. We own almost every starwars book (and sometimes fight over the new one on who gets to read first ;P)... we both love the same movies and shows... and he's a wonderful soundboard for me to bounce my book ideas off of (its getting so bad that I might have to make him a co-author
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Post by torainfor on Apr 23, 2009 14:53:39 GMT -5
I'm jealous. My Tom will watch any sci fi movie that comes down the pike, but couldn't care less about a book unless the author is Louis L'Amour. He supports my writing, but he doesn't get it.
Maybe I should add more horses...
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Post by Divides the Waters on Apr 23, 2009 20:36:41 GMT -5
Interesting thread! I have difficulty writing about those senses in which I am weak. I am very visual, so I have a gift for creating scenes that people can see in their heads, but I have difficulty remembering to write about smells, because my own sense of smell has been greatly diminished for years.
Smart kid!
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Post by Christian Soldier on Apr 24, 2009 20:26:15 GMT -5
I'm not the only scent-blind person here? Hmm... I don't know if I feel better about it or not. I feel much the same way as you gals. Jamie's dyslexic, so reading is a no go, but she likes my stuff. She just won't read any one else's.
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Post by mongoose on Apr 25, 2009 18:15:42 GMT -5
They say I'm dyslexic, and they say it's something that you can't change, grow out of, or work your through just because you want it badly enough. But the summer after third grade I decided I wanted to read the Bible. So learned, and I read. That wasn't the end of my difficulties, however. It wasn't until fifth grade that a teacher noticed my difficulties switching letters, lining up numbers for addition and such, and recommended that my parents get me tested. When I was diagnosed they put me in a slingerland program that worked intensively on the things I was missing, and by 7th grade I tested out of regular English classes and did well in honors English, reading and writing, until 11th grade. That was a hard year for me, but I was already a more prolific reader and writer than most of my peers.
All that only to say that it can be done, with the right help and the right reasons.
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Post by Spokane Flyboy on Apr 25, 2009 19:42:30 GMT -5
They say I'm dyslexic, and they say it's something that you can't change, grow out of, or work your through just because you want it badly enough. But the summer after third grade I decided I wanted to read the Bible. So learned, and I read. That wasn't the end of my difficulties, however. It wasn't until fifth grade that a teacher noticed my difficulties switching letters, lining up numbers for addition and such, and recommended that my parents get me tested. When I was diagnosed they put me in a slingerland program that worked intensively on the things I was missing, and by 7th grade I tested out of regular English classes and did well in honors English, reading and writing, until 11th grade. That was a hard year for me, but I was already a more prolific reader and writer than most of my peers. All that only to say that it can be done, with the right help and the right reasons. And a little help from God, for whom all things are possible. Dyslexia seems like cake compared to raising dead men, feeding 5000 with just a few fish and loafs of bread, and calming storms.
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Post by duchessashley on May 1, 2009 11:29:06 GMT -5
Last night, Jack told someone that when he gets big, he's going to be a doctor or a fire truck or a space alien. How does a three-year-old know what a space alien is? I think I have a future speculator. ;D
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