:iagree: This is what my parents did for me. They added that protein powder into everything! Also coconut powder, butter, etc into everything they could sneak it into. I carb-loaded whole grains before practices and meets.

:iagree: Then if I wake up for a bit read until I fall back to sleep.

Those are awesome!! :hurray:

If you add all of ours together I think we are at about $40. You can't check out if you have more than $10 in fines on a particular card but luckily they aren't linked so I rotate between our cards :) We have a 30 book per card limit though so I always have to use more than one card at each check out. I try so hard but..... I suck at returning books I guess.

Lol true! Plus my twins are pretty wild to begin with, I am not sure there would be a difference in behavior... :willy_nilly:

My poor children... I think I use recipes that have me add wine 3-4 nights out of each week. :lol: The chart was news to me! I assumed a small amount of alcohol was retained but not the percentages that chart showed! Obviously I would be fine with serving the rum cake! ETA: As to the original question, my children have never appeared buzzed at all. Several of the recipes I use call for 1-2 cups of wine in the sauce and I have never noticed any changes in myself or kids. (Maybe we are all used to it!?!)

This prayer request just came through our prayer chain at church from one of our long-time members. Her 12-year old daughter is struggling for her life after a bunk-bed accident. This request has really touched my heart and I felt led to pass it on. The mother requests prayers and good thoughts. Here is the blog link: http://goofyj.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/and-the-world-crashes/

:iagree: I've been through this a lot with mine. Most of the time it isn't anything serious but a few times it has been, usually pneumonia.

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This one is the one recommended by PP and we love it! I have had it since I was a toddler and now my kids enjoy it too. It has at least 250 poems in it. They are for the most part the original wording, or close to it. Every two-page layout has two or more illustrations and every-other two-page layout has a full page illustration. I adore it! http://www.amazon.com/Mother-Goose-Blanche-Fisher-Wright/dp/0590225170/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0

:001_smile: Thanks! I don't doubt Calvinists, Catholics or any other denominations' salvation at all. I just was hoping someone, anyone had heard of something that my horrible google skills couldn't uncover that would support our theology. :lol:

Oh I don't mind at all! I am glad there is any discussion going on. I was worried this would be a lost thread no one responded too :001_smile:

Well I was hoping not to have to make my own since all of my kids have special needs plus I run a full day care but I guess I will have to. :glare: I agree that there are many acceptable Bible curriculums that aren't offensive or that I can tweak. I just thought it would be nice for an open and go class. Plus as they get older I want to move into a secondary theology class along with Bible. I am looking early :) My dad suggested using the Beacon Hill commentary and I found there is a new revised one coming out a couple of volumes at a time. I guess if i start now maybe I can afford them all by the time they are ready for theology :lol:

Ours was supposed to be in our account two weeks ago. Hasn't shown up yet and all of a sudden it now says "processing" instead of the date it previously had.

It is the opposite :001_smile: Arminians believe that anyone can choose to follow Jesus. The Wesleyan branch of Arminianism focuses on purity and holiness. We even have different definitions of sin :tongue_smilie:

Here is Bedell's response: Thank you for your questions, Virginia. Our curriculum is from a "Fundamental Baptist" perspective. We do not believe that God arbitrarily chooses people to be saved or lost, but offers salvation freely to "whosoever will." We do believe in the security of the believer, however. Our curriculum covers Bible (Bible Psychology, Bible Sociology, and Bible Apologetics) Science (Biology, Earth Science, Chemistry, Physical Science) and History (World, U.S. Government/Economics) David Bedell

Awesome! Thank you!

Thanks! I am going to email him today. It is so hard to tell from samples but it looks interesting anyway.

:lol: about our "type"! Do you have a reference you use for yourself to help you teach it? I am now looking for an adult-aimed theology book to give myself a firmer foundation to teach from.

I am glad people besides me are interested! I really thought I was the only one lol. I kept checking and no one had responded so I finally gave up. Then today I decided to look for my thread and was pleasantly surprised to find posts :001_smile: There are a ton of Nazarene colleges, universities, etc and Free Methodist (which I actually am) also has a lot of Bible schools around the world. I know they have day schools in other countries, they must have a curriculum... right? I am starting to think about attempting to find a college theology book to at least get ideas from. Bible has been the hardest subject for me. Everything is KJV (don't necessarily have a problem with that but kids with speech & reading disorders can barely read it much less understand it) or strongly Calvinist. We just started using CLE for LA and Math. However we don't cover our hair or wear only dresses. We just have a very holiness-purity based focus. I haven't seen a Bible light unit though to judge how much time is spent on Anabaptist theology vs what really makes up Wesleyan theology. As I understand it they are from different branches of the "denomination tree" LOL (I could be wrong and love to be educated though!) ETA: Honestly I won't consider BJU because I just cannot support them. In 2000 when the ban was lifted my bi-racial children were being born. I don't judge others or anything, but me, personally, I just can't bring myself to use their curricula

:iagree: I have been a preschool/daycare provider for the last fifteen years. Most children I encounter do NOT use any manners. I find that in my daycare when I enforce respect and manners children naturally start being kinder to each other and to me. The second their parents walk in it is a whole different story. I also think there is a difference when your children are home with a parent/nanny or at one carefully chosen daycare rather than multiple daycares between birth and school. In these situations what is modeled will not be consistent day to day throughout their early life. I may be in the minority here but my kids were taught to say please, thank you, etc. They also say yes ma'am and no sir to us and to other adults. I always think it is funny when people assume we are "cold" with out children because we are so "formal". My boys slept in my bed until they were 7 and constantly crawl into my lap for hugs. We are a VERY affectionate family. It just depends on what atmosphere your home has, I guess.

We are heavily Arminian with *ahem* pretty strong opinions. I was especially looking for Bible and History slanted our way. Everything I find is either neutral or Reformed. Obviously it isn't killing me but it would be nice to find to give our children a stronger foundation in our theology. :001_smile: I have googled Wesleyan and Arminian, Methodist and Nazarene homeschool curriculum. I have looked through a bazillion pages of results. The closest I have gotten is Sunday School curricula and college textbooks. I will admit to being a horrible google searcher. I am not sure why I don't get the miraculous results everyone else does. :glare: Anyway, anyone? :bigear:

No you're aren't the only one. I was used to Oregon and assumed everywhere was as clean and that everyone is careful with the environment in this day and age. Then I moved to Utah. To be fair, I think part of it is the wind. However if it wasn't dropped in the first place.... Even my kids noticed. The first few weeks we were here they kept saying, "Uh-oh! Someone is going to get a $500 fine!" (Oregon has signs to warn you not to litter posted everywhere.) "Mom here comes the policeman to give them their fine. Oh, maybe he didn't see them drop it..." Eventually they gave up pointing it out. They still spend quite a bit of time picking up the litter though, esp when it blows into our yard.

:iagree: With my neurotypical child this is what i do. I do make him use the dictionary when he asks me what a word means. For the other three I just spell the word, otherwise it will turn into a ten minute ordeal, usually with tears.

This is what the daycare laws say.