I'm thinking about shutting down this site at some point, since I rarely update it.   This is because I finally succumbed to Facebook and that is where you will find pictures and news for the Reed family.  So if you are a long lost friend or relative and want to keep up with what’s happening in my family, just friend request me on Facebook.  I’ll accept you, so don’t be shy about it.  Sometimes I feel like friend requesting people but I haven’t talked to them in so long (like 20+ years in some cases), I chicken out and don’t do it.  So I’m letting you know that you don’t have to feel that way with me.  I’ll gladly accept you.  I just won’t chat.  I rarely turn my chat on in Facebook.  - Bill

We usually attend Christian Home Educators of Ohio (CHEO)'s homeschool conference every year.  But last year they moved the conference from Columbus (where I live) to Akron, so that was a bummer.   This year we were deciding whether to go to Akron or choose a different conference, a much larger one, which is held in Cincinnati.  Friends had warned us that it was not solid Christian and there would be some non-Christian views there.  But I found out that Ken Ham was speaking there so I wanted to try it just because of that alone.

Well, one week out from the conference, I find out that they disinvited Ken Ham because he was speaking against another guy who doesn't hold to a literal Genesis account.  I guess this other guy became upset and complained because he was trying to sell his new curriculum.  Then Ken Ham warns people against it at the same conference.  I don't blame Ken Ham.  He did the right thing as any born again christian should do and that is defend scripture and warn fellow believers of false teachers.

So this homeschool conference won't answer any emails or return phone calls, so we won't get a refund.  I decided that we will still go but I'm going to give them a piece of my mind as soon as I walk in the door.  We will never go to this one again, CHEO in Akron from here on out!

You can read more about this ordeal here.

Bill

Ksena received an American Girl doll for Christmas.  It was from their "Girls from many Lands" collection.  It also came with a book entitled, "Cecile - Gates of Gold."  The doll is suppose to be a collectors item and most people would not even take it out of the box.  But I told Ksena, you can take it out and play with it but to take very good care of it. 

The book was recommended for 11 years and up but Ksena had incredible interest in the story at age 5 and we read the entire book in a week or so.  It even had Dad's interest.  It is a great story based on 1700s France.