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Sounds like a good tradition!...My boys would love that ;)
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I am just reading this now...I will pray for the family...So hard to lose a child, esp your first...Lord have mercy...
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Tory, I am very sorry to hear this...I will pray for you and your family, and the pastor's family...
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Oh Debbi, you son will be there with my son :D ...They should meet ;)
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Not exactly earth shattering news.
And "when our children look back on their childhood, what are they most likely to remember with pleasure?" does not strike me as a useful guideline for setting academic goals. They will remember with pleasure our trip to the mountains and at the same time they will have a firm grasp on the algebra they learned from a textbook. Yes, there is a lot of learning outside formal curricula, but the amount of pleasure recalled years later is not how I decide my educational objectives or the materials used to reach them.
This...
Work is work and play is play, even a child knows the difference...I don't expect for everything we do to be pleasurable...
Homeschooling is like building and decorating or moving to a house...I don't look back with pleasure at painting walls or moving around furniture, but it was necessary steps for me to be able to enjoy my home once those things are done...Getting an education is work...There are necessary steps to take while getting an education that are just not fun...I don't expect my kids to look back on studying with pleasure, but the end result of the education is what will be enjoyed in the future...
We are not at all over the top with academics here, but I realize that work is work and there is no way around that...We have plenty of memories that do not involve school work ;)
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Just wanted to let anyone interested know that I found this book at Barnes and Noble in the discount section for $10...I have been wanting this book, but with the Amazon price never got it...I was thrilled to find it at B&N for such a good price :D
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Any chance anyone is sending a kid or two there?...Keanu wanted to go badly, so I signed him up officially yesterday...He is going to session 3...
I know this is an east coast thing, and most of you probably live on the west coast, but I thought I would ask anyway :)
I really wanted to go to the St. Emmelia Homeschool Conference there in March, but we can't afford to do both camp and the conference, so we are doing camp only this year...I think it would be good for Keanu, and Germain agreed...
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I didn't get mine yet :crying:
And Andrew Kern is Orthodox...
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I was a 34A when I started out, was maybe a 34B while nursing, and am back to a 34A...I can't even imagine a D, H, or even a C...My cups have never runeth over :-)
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I had trouble with sore breasts (long story) and thought seriously about a reduction. But the pain went away thanks to evening primrose oil supplements.
I am small, with big breasts. 5 foot 7, 120 pounds and I'm a 32 H.
:confused1: H as in bigger then a D, E, F, and G.
I'm not use to my new bra and it is irrating.
Wait a minute, you are not joking?!?
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No, the DVDs have never been changed...I bought mine used years ago and am using them now with current printed materials...
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There are so many choices out there, but I like Prima Latina from Memoria press with the accompanying DVD's. These are so helpful for the mom if she has never had or taught Latin.
I am using a phone and can't find the agree smiley, but I agree with this...Prima Latina with the DVDs is a good place to start for an 8 year old...It teaches both of you, has a clear plan each week, and progresses nicely...
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Milovany, I would also love all three and would pay you to ship them to me in addition to the cost of the books...If you find them there :-)
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I use an app called "Orthodox Calendar"...It is green with a white Orthodox cross in the middle...There is a Russian one and an English one, and I use the English one (it doesn't say Russian or anything else)...It lists all the saints for the day (and their year), feast days, and fasting info...Mine is new calendar (you choose which calendar style)...
I have an Android phone, so I am not sure about Iphones...
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Happy Birthday!...What a great day to be born :hurray:
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I am "engaged" to the OCA...Still waiting to be christmated :)
If we moved I would be open to other jurisdictions, but would probably look for another OCA first...My next choice would be anything in English...
I really like Bishop Michael and my church though, so we don't want to leave...
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MaggieAnnie, I just realized we are doing a Tiner book this year, "Exploring the World of Biology" :) ...I didn't notice it before, but my son is reading it now...
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Maybe I could have been considered "eclectic", not sure...I use to piece together different things but switched to a box - Memoria Press...This is my first week using the entire packages, so I will have to wait to give a real report of how it is going, but it is fine so far ;) ...I am in the process of adjusting the 5 day week and making it a 4 day, but other than that, no tweaking is planned...
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We just started the Memoria Press packages yesterday :001_smile: ...I am glad to hear it is going well for you...So far so good for us too, but it has only been two days (well one and a half, the boys are having lunch now)...
We are doing the 1st, 3rd, and 6th grade packages...My 7th grader is doing the 6th grade package, my other two are in 1st and 3rd...
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She does spend a lot of the liturgy on her phone when she does come. It's one of those things where I don't know whether speaking up (and to whom?) is the kind thing to do, or would create trouble. She doesn't seem very "involved" at all. I've only ever said hello to her once, so it's not like I feel comfortable telling her that I, and most of the right half of the church, see her undergarments on a regular basis.
Kathryn, this has been the situation at our parish as well...Our Pres. hasn't really been around...She comes more now, but it was a couple of months after I started attending the church that I ever even saw her...She had moved out of Father's house about a year ago I was told, but may have moved back in now, I am not sure...
She has been coming more, so hopefully I will get a chance to get to know her...I sometimes wish she was around as a woman to be able to talk to...There is a Russian church nearby that we join with sometimes, and the Matuska seems so involved and so friendly...I just pray that that their marriage can be healed...I am sure the church misses her involvement :sad:
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For 3rd to 8th grade history I am using Memoria Press's classical studies and modern studies, plus their recommendation for the student to read SOTW over each summer on their own.
3rd- Greek Myths, SOTW 1
4th- Famous Men of Rome, SOTW 2
5th- Famous Men of the Middle Ages, SOTW 3
6th- Famous Men if Greece, Trojan War, The Thirteen Colonies and Great Republic, SOTW 4
7th- Book of the Ancient World, Book of the Ancient Greeks, Illiad & Odyssey
8th-Book of the Middle Ages, Book of the Ancient Romans, The Aenied
We are doing this too, I just wanted to mention that you could always let the kids listen to SOTW on CD...My boys LOVE listening to Jim Weiss, and they LOVE SOTW :)
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I am going to reiterate to please please PLEASE do some prostrations and get someone to check ...we have seen someones "business" a few too many times at Church.
I don't know if I should feel like this :ohmy: or this :rofl:
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I go to church in a major college town of an Ivy League school where people tend to be laid back and progressive in their thinking...Women wear skirts of varying lengths...The priest's wife and his grown daughters look like models, (they are very tall, thin, and pretty) and dress very trendy with skirts of varying lengths...I am more old fashioned I guess (compared to where I live), so I tend to wear longer skirts, right above my ankles or calf length...I am 5'2"...
I have seen above the knee, almost spandex like skirts at church :001_unsure:
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That's a neat story, Little Nyssa. Thanks for sharing. I do like wearing a head covering if for no other reason than it's not something I do out in everyday-world, so it sets my time at church apart in that way, too. It makes me feel like, this place is different. This place is not of this world.
Wearing a headcovering to church for me was one of the most freeing experiences. I had wanted to for so long but never wanted to address the certain scrutiny I would've fallen under in my previous church.
Patty Joanna said once about us converts in relation to cradles wondering why we do some of the things we do, "Because finally, we CAN!" I felt this same way when I did my first prostration, crossing myself, bowing, etc. Finally, I CAN and I don't stand out!
I feel like both of the above...I am the only one in my parish who wears a head covering, and no one has said anything...There is a Russian church that our church combines with for Vespers a lot because we don't have a building yet, and almost every woman there covers...I am not usually aware of the fact that my head is covered while at church because no one looks up at it :)
The Story of Christianity Book
in Orthodox Christian Homeschooling
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Hi Sarah...
I will see if my B&N still has it...I can always mail it to you if they do...We live 10 mins away from two B&Ns...