Monumental, The Movie

http://www.monumentalmovie.com/

We noticed that Monumental will be in the theaters on April 13^th both at the Spectrum in Irvine and in a theater in Orange. Don and I saw it when it first aired on March 23^rd at 8:00 PM. I don’t know if it will show beyond April 13^th, so check out the theater times and figure out when you can go.

We would like to encourage you to go see this documentary done by Kirk Cameron. Older high schoolers, parents and grandparents might really catch the vision. Young High Schoolers and Junior Highers might like this movie if they are history buffs. With younger children, I would think that you would get more out of it if you made it a date night and hired a babysitter. But, we encourage all parents, or those of an age considering parenthood, to grab their parents and grandparents and make a night of it. It might give you a “generational perspective.”

Don and I have had a vision for our five children. With the Biblical mandates of loving the Lord God with all your soul, heart and mind, from the Old Testament, and Love your neighbor as yourself, from the New Testament, we figured the best thing we could do for them is to teach them those things. Do we do it perfectly? No. But we do try to do it consistently in all of our parenting efforts.

Monumental, is a documentary type of movie that shows that others before us have had that kind of vision. The pilgrims who first came to America were kind of like us. Did they do everything perfectly? No. But they, too, were consistent in their beliefs and acted on them.

Mr. Cameron has done an excellent job of doing the research to dispel the myths, uncover the mystery, and teach on the memoirs of the Pilgrims. They had a “generational perspective”, or a vision, for their children. Do you?

Peep Wars

This morning, on my drive to Laguna Niguel Regional Park for my walk with Linda and Carie, I heard of "Peep Jousting". The idea was to take left- over peeps, put tooth picks in their beaks, put them facing one another in the microwave, and let them rise until one launches the toothpick into the other one. Sounds like something Stout boys would want to try.

I only had to suggest it once. They got two blue peeps (all of the yellow peeps are gone) and put in the tooth picks. Andrew says his was the one with the poison tip. (The poison tip was actually the residual plastic on the fancy toothpicks.) They worked at it, until the toothpicks were pointing directly at one another.

I recorded the action in the microwave. Too bad my camera decided to focus on the microwave dots! It didn't work as we expected, but we had fun none-the-less. Now we're working on ideas to tweak the experiment and make it work. Any suggestions? There are more peeps in the house to try another day!

OK, when everyone got home tonight, they decided to include dad in the fun. We're not convinced that it worked the way advertised, but it sure made the house smell like roasted marshmallows!