Hey guys! A post at last!!!
So I read Romans 14 today, and it totally reminded me of Vani and Em's posts. Here it is:

Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. One man’s faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him. Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. It is written:
“‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will confess to God.’”
So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way. As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died. Do not allow what you consider good to be spoken of as evil. For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.
Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.
So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves. But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.

So it all goes back to what we were saying on Vani's blog, and then recently on Em's blog about the gray areas. I esp. liked the part where Paul said that no food is unclean, but if to someone they consider it unclean, then it's unclean for them. So basically then, if you don't consider it unclean, then to you it's not, because you thank God for it. But it should be unclean to you if it causes a fellow Christian to stumble.

I think we had that covered. It was just really cool to read it today and have all that biblical backup!

So how is everyone? When does school start up again? I start on September 5th. Officially. It's going to be really loose though when we get started, kinda more or less trying to figure out what unschooling is for us… And then on the 8-10th we have State Fair. So I won't have any school Friday, and the few days before that will be getting ready for Fair. I'm kind of excited/kind of nervous. (Don't worry this is totally natural!)

Let's see…what else? Oh yeah! Mom and I went to the lake yesterday for a few hours, took our little inflatable boat out there, went swimming, had a picnic with watermelon, tuna fish sandwiched, lemonade, zucchini bread!!!! It was so much fun! Then we just sat in the sun and read for a while. Then last night we rented the movie Yours, Mine, and Ours, and watched that with Dad. It was so good!!! And I found out that the party band is Hawk Nelson! That was really cool, since they're Christian and they're one of my favorite bands. Anybody seen it?

Hmmm….what else? Oh I remember! Ok, you all have to promise not to laugh at me though. Up until today, I didn't know how to do laundry. I mean, I knew how to work the dryer so I could dry the clothes, but I didn't know how to work the washer. Now I do 'cause Mom taught me! I understand that most of my friends know how to do laundry, so I always felt a little behind there…just freaking out because I thought I'd never learn or something…jk. ;)

I think that's about it. I'm going to go change the laundry (:P) and then read The Count of Monte Cristo.

I finally posted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~Namarie~
~Verya
P.S.
Pictures still aren't working for me. Can anyone figure out what the problem is?