HBO's 10 part miniseries Band of Brothers is about World War II. There is a scene in the movie when the American soldiers liberate a male Jewish camp. I cried during this scene. It was so sad. Here is the scene from the movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoqX4tsIXdw Goodness, I wish I didn't do a search for this scene. I got misty eyed watching it. Blessings Zoraida

Week 1: The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch Week 2: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Week 3: The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch Week 4: The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie Week 5: The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie Week 6: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Week 7: Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie Week 8: Paper Towns by John Green Week 9: Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen Week 10: Saville: David Storey Week 11: The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald Week 12: Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald Week 13: The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt Blessings Zoraida

For the past 23 years at our home only Jehovah witnesses have been coming to the house. Just this summer two teenage boys who are Mormans have been making monthly visits. I don't mind the Jehovah witnesses visiting. The Jehovah Witnesses usually show up around the first of the month when their Watch Tower magazine comes out. I usually take the Watch Tower magazine and give a dollar or two as a donation to whoever is at the door. Than I throw the magazine in the trash. The Watch Tower magazine is the most anti Catholic magazine I have ever come across. I do have a problem with the two pimply Morman boys that show up though. They are extremely pushy and opinionated. They showed up two weeks ago. I don't know what I did wrong - but I think I upset them and got rid of them for good. They were talking about baptism and whether I as a Catholic believed that the Catholic Church had the rights to only allow priests to baptize people. I told them that I didn't know where they got there information from but priests were not the only ones within the church who were allowed to baptize. I told them that any lay person in the church were allowed to baptize other people. I said that if someone were laying in my front yard and were requesting baptism before they died, I could run into my house and pour water over their heads and baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. The one boy that was doing all the talking gave me a shocked look and quickly excused him and his friend from my front porch and practically ran to their bicycles. For me, this was slightly disturbing because I didn't intend to upset them and I'm not sure what I said to upset them. I only told them the truth. Blessings Zoraida

Out of curiosity,were you and your husband married in the Catholic Church. I use to teach RCIA for several years. We would have husbands and wives coming into the RCIA from other denominations. Sometimes after going through the RCIA process for over a year or more - one spouse would convert while the other spouse would remain with their old church. In order for the spouse who is converting to the Catholic faith to receive communion, the couple would have to be married in the Catholic Church. The marriage is always an informal process. The couples would meet in the church chapal for an informal 5 minute ceremony with the other RCIA students as witnesses. Just curious. Blessings Zoraida

I am a Neil Gaiman fan. My 12 year old son read The Graveyard Book and loved it so much he read it again. I read the book with high expectations. Surprisingly, I had a hard time getting through the book. It just didn't seem to have the same "gusto" as his other books. I was totally dissapointed. I was surprised it won the Newberry award. If I had my pick of Newberry award winners for the year, I would have picked Terry Pratchett's The Nation. As a side note, Neil Gaiman's favorite children's book is Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. The Graveyard Book is his retelling of The Jungle Book. Instead of using a boy raised by animals - he uses a boy raised by ghosts. Blessings Zoraida

In the state of Texas, testing is not a requirement. But I do test just to make sure my kids are on grade level. I use the Iowa test from Seton Homeschool. They are extremely quick in grading the tests. You can send the test in and get the results the following week. Blessings Zoraida

Our Priest says that it is all right for Catholics to attend other denominations. Because in a lot of Catholic churches there are mixed marriages. Such as a Catholic being married to a Methodist. The only thing a Catholic can not do at a different church is to receive communion. If you remember when John Kerry was running for president, he attended a Baptist church and took communion. There was a large uproar that he should be ex communicated from the Catholic Church for this. Remember as a Catholic, we believe that the Host and the wine are indeed changed into the true body and blood of Christ. Most of our Protestant cousins believe the Host and the wine are just a symbol of Christ's body and blood. Blessings Zoraida

I use this as a supplement to my children's regular Latin program - Lively Latin and Henle Latin. The program is mainly a translation program. You have 10 sentences per day to translate. The way I use the program is to write the sentences on the board and than have my kids translate the sentences. It takes us any where from 2 to 5 minutes to translate all 10 sentences. This is a nice supplement to a regular program. But I would not consider this a full program. Blessings Zoraida

Drivers Ed in a Box and lots of country road practice. Blessings Zoraida

Yes, and the older they get, the worst they get. Blessings Zoriada

Week 1: The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch Week 2: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Week 3: The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch Week 4: The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie Week 5: The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie Week 6: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Week 7: Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie Week 8: Paper Towns by John Green Week 9: Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen Week 10: Saville: David Storey Week 11: The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald Week 12: Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald Blessings Zoraida

Yes mayo does work. Get a couple of large bottles and generously lather hair with mayo. Take saran wrap and wrap around head or use a cheap shower cap leave on for about an hour. Than take your nit come and go through hair. You might need to do this at least twice. Last, shampoo hair using regular shampoo. This is a tip that my hair dresser gave when my youngest sons little league team all contacted lice at the same time. They were all sharing the same helmet. Yuck! Blessings Zoraida

A really good resource for translation practice would be Getting Started with Latin. I know a lot of people on this board are using this as their main text. Personally, I think it would make a good supplement to a Latin program rather than be used as the main text. With this program you are translating sentences every day. Usually there are 10 sentences to translate each day. The way I use this program with my main text is to write the sentences on the board and have my kids translate. It takes us less than two minutes to work each lesson each day. The translation exercises helps to solidify what we are learning in our main text. Blessings Zoraida

My favorites are the zoo, Opryland Hotel, and walking through downtown Nashville. There is a park section in the zoo that has this huge fort jungle gym type of thingy. My kids spent several hours in this section playing. There is also an old Southern type mansion on the zoo property. I don't know the name of the house, but at certain times of the day they give tours of the house and the tour guides are dressed in historical costumes. Opryland Hotel has a beautiful indoors botanical garden with water falls and lots of resturaunts. If you go downtown try and visit the new public library. Well it isn't exactly new. It wast built 4 or 5 years ago. When they built the library they promoted that it would be extreamly homeschool friendly. It has a huge children's section and cafes. Also their are tons of malls and outlet malls if you want to do shopping. Blessings Zoraida

You would need the solution manual. The Dive CD only teaches the lesson. It doesn't have solutions. Blessings Zoraida

Fallacy Detective covers almost the same material that is in Critical Thinking book 1. Blessings Zoraida

Try librarything.com. You can use tags, arrange your books by dewey decimal system or library of congress system. I love using this site - especially when I get a new non - fiction that I am not sure where to place on my book shelves. I just enter it in the librarything site in the dewey decimal section and it will show me my home list and where to put the book on my shelf. Blessings Zoraida

Does anyone require their children to keep a math notebook. If so, what are you including in these notebooks besides lessons and tests. Also, do any of you supplement with different types of activities or programs instead of just using the textbook. I'm needing new fresh ideas to do with my extremely bored 6th grader. As a side note, We are using Saxon 7/6 Blessings Zoraida

I'm a house cleaning book junkie. I like to buy the type of house cleaning books that has charts in them with daily, weekly, monthly quarterly type lists in them. I must have at least over a dozen of these type of books. If your interested in titles - Let me know and I'll type you up a list. Blessings Zoraida

Week 1: The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch Week 2: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Week 3: The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch Week 4: The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie Week 5: The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie Week 6: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Week 7: Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie Week 8: Paper Towns by John Green Week 9: Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen Week 10: Saville: David Storey Week 11: The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald Blessings Zoraida

At the time, I heard this reported on both CNN and Fox news. I did a search and found this article on Timesonline. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article543521.ece Blessings Zoraida

I consider myself to be a very devout Catholic. I go to Mass everyday of the week. I pray the rosary every day. I recite the Angelus at noon. I say my prayers. I read my daily devotionals. I have crucifixes hung in my home as well as statues of the saints. I have a bowl of holy water on a stand in my foyer. Pope Benedict made a public announcement against reading Harry Potter. I did not listen to him and read the books. I do not have a problem with Harry Potter. I love the Harry Potter books. I went to all the midnight Harry Potter party's with my kids. I know many Catholic families that have read Harry Potter. Even our priest has read Harry Potter. Can hardly wait for the next movie. Blessings Zoraida

Stick with the dive cds. The Saxon teachers cd works out every problem in the practice set and the problem set. Why would anyone want to watch all 30 problems worked out when you can grab a copy of the solution manual and quickly glance at the solution to what ever problem your having trouble with. Every quarter, the moms in our home school moms group will get together and talk about what curriculum works for them and what doesn't. For most mothers the Saxon teacher cd's have been a waste of money. Blessings Zoraida

There is a new mystery series out called The 39 Clues Series. Each book is written by a different author but features the same brother and sister detective team. My youngest daughter is reading the third book in the series and says the books remind her of the Lemony Snickett books. The brother and sister in the series are orphans and there are a lot of eccentric characters. Also for adventure, try the Redwall series by Brian Jaques. Our series is falling apart because the kids have read these books over and over. Blesssings Zoraida

You might want to consider using Seton next time you take the Iowa test. We can send the test in and get the results the following week. Blessings Zoraida