I have not been to the website in a while, but I LOVE their products. The customer service is the best too. A great company to support.

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I LOVE that site! I have a wondermill and love it! All my friends have a Nutrimill and love theirs as well.

I have used both. I chose to use Biblioplan in the long run. I like MFW, and still recommend it to people who need a lot of hand holding. It has science and Bible included as well as history. Biblioplan is just history. It has some supplements, but I have never used them so I can't chime in on those. It orders your spines, recommends additional books, but you can easily replace them with no ill effects. I like the flexibility, others want the structure. They are both adjustable for many ages, but Biblioplan gives different spines for different ages, and MFW has the younger siblings tag along getting what they can from the spine, but adjusting the read alouds. They are both great programs, and you can't go wrong with either, it is just a matter of what you want. p.s. CTG was my least favorite of the MFW years we used. It was thorough, but some of the book choices were boring to us. I know others have loved it, the activities were ok, though we are not hands on people. The book choices were just not for us.

We did this recently except my girls were older. All the girls came dressed up. We made cornhusk dolls, and tin can candle holders. I took empty vegetable cans and filled with water and froze. Then they took a nail and punched a pattern into the can. When the ice melted enough it came right out of the can and we put a tea light candle in it. The girls played in the yard some old fashioned games from the time period (they planned these themselves), we had a fire, a cake shaped as a pioneer girl and homemade icecream. We were going to decorate aprons, but there was not enough time. It went well, and everyone had fun.

We do. We also have a once a month potluck at the church.

:iagree: Yes, this is good. I was looking for the lyrics for this song to send to someone and came across this video. :D

Just wanted to say thank you again! It is nice to learn from wives who have been there. My husband has contacts on his end, but I was just wanting to learn a little myself. Some things you don't think about till you are there. :D

WOW! Thank you for all the replies. I appreciate it. I am reading and re reading these. Lizzy Bee- of course people do not mind their own business! ;) I knew that! :D I want to have a good idea of what we are getting into- although we really will have no idea until we are there! Scary and exciting! :D

My husband is considering stepping out of the workforce and going into business for himself. He is learning what it takes, and doing some research himself, but I also want to be knowledgeable. So tell me some of the things you have learned over the years of running your own business, maybe things you were not prepared for too. Did you do something that made the transition easier- or wish you had? Any thing you wish you had or had not done? Thanks for any help or insight you can give. :D

I only have a minute, but wanted to chime in and say we use Biblioplan and really like it. It is structured enough for me, but flexible as well. They have good book selections, but we can pick and choose. It has been my most successful year.

Love to use my Kindle for all the free classic books out there. We use it daily.

On the website it says the courses are online, you have to meet SAT/act/ grade level requirements, and it is $400 for an 8 week course.

Yep, we do it this way. The kids will make time for projects if they want to do them. I don't think the learning value is worth the effort for them around here. Now if I had different children....

I have used Reading Made Easy for years. I have taught my own children to read using it (except my oldest son who taught himself also) and I have taught other people's children to read using it. It is truly my favorite phonics program and recommend it to everyone. It now has a cd or workbooks that are similar to ETC so I do not think you will need both. I used it before the cd, and have used it with the cd. My children learned to read without it, but it is a good supplement. I am quite surprised it is not any more popular than it is, it is all in one book, takes just a few minutes a day, and gets your child reading easily, while still preserving their love of reading. The latter was the most important to me, there are so many programs out there that kill the joy of reading by making it more difficult than it needs to be. HTH!

:iagree: We love our laid back rat. My friend has females and they are more "jumpy", then again it may be just the temperament.

As if you need another vote for rats. :D We really like ours. We named him Squeaky (hey she is 7 ;) ) and he is great. I did not do enough research so I only bought 1, I was scared to get another now though- 6 months later. I am not sure how they would get along. He seems to be great by himself, but there is no lack of socialization. Next time, I will get 2.

LOVE IT!!! :D

I have not read that book, but one that has challenged my thinking is Crazy Love by Francis Chan. We are going to make some changes around here from what we read in there. However, because so many others are serving right now, we will wait till after the first of the year when everyone goes home. :)

I felt the same way. They are misrepresenting God.

We used and loved that book for my son. :D For my daughters I went with Reading Made Easy, and it is my favorite! I still love and recommend both books!

Between $500-$700 for 4-5 (I am teaching a little boy who is living with us right now) kids.

Thank you for sharing. I really enjoy your wisdom and insight. :001_smile:

I only have the first 3 you listed. They are awesome. I don't have any other input other than to say yes the writing w/o fear is the older writing lecture and the other 3 provide much more detailed instruction. :001_smile:

God must be watching out for families that use chainsaws, because we had a similar situation this week!!