Snow Day

(Yes, our Sleepyhouse is yellow! We're going to work on creating a sign for the front porch with our home's new name.)

Its not feeling so Sleepy today. School was canceled due to the snow, so the phone's been ringing off the hook.

I'm fighting off a brain cloud headache. That's what I call a headache that's not bad enough to make me run away from the world, but I have the feeling if I could only grab a nap it would blow away. No such luck though with a basement full of Posse Rats.

What's a headache girl to do on a day like this? Bake cookies of course. I made peanut butter whole wheat with half the batch getting chips. I'm probably going to re-make the soft ginger bread cookies since the last batch mutated on me.

I did try to accomplish my photo walk but my fingers were getting frostbite after only half a dozen shots. Plus the layer of ice under the snow made it very difficult to stay upright.

Jakob and I had a great discussion on censorship. I don't remember if I mentioned it, but he recently experienced censorship first hand. He worked very hard creating a game level for Little Big Planet. He titled it "Church In Trouble" and the level had a mischievous sack boy you had to try and stop before he wrecked the church. His level was banned and he received a warning notice from Playstation.

We think his level was pulled because of the title. He was quite upset and he wanted to know why his level was banned while others are out there that are actually more violent. I told him I think its because of the word "church". He then mentioned the game designers actually had religious icons you can choose when creating your world. One such icon was actually a cross made out of skulls although he didn't use it when he built his level. He thought the building he had built looked like an old church and that's why he named it Church In Trouble. It doesn't actually have any religious icons in it.

We found a great website that lists banned books. Jakob was surprised to see many of the books on the list he's read himself. For example, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and James and The Giant Peach have been banned from certain school libraries. He doesn't feel its right for anyone to tell you what you can and can't read. (I'm so proud!) He asked me to bookmark the site. I think he wants to go back and read more banned books! YES!!