JudoMom, This article is fascinating in concept! I'm going to try it, I think ... A question, though. The idea of spraying all surfaces then going back to the beginning and wiping them down ... You have small children ... do you have any issues with this? How do you keep littles out of it? Nap time? Hmmmm ... I use generally homemade non-toxic cleaners, but I still wouldn't want them putting their fingers in them IYKWIM?

I have the Kohl's version that has waffle-iron plates too. I like using it a lot!

I don't think this is the recipe I've used (but I'm away from home) ... Frozen Peach Pie. Freeze it in pie plate, then put it in shell and bake whenever in the winter to get a taste of summer ... yum.

I've never tried it, but understand you can make yogurt in your crockpot.

Congratulations!

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence Words: Liturgy of St. James, 4th Century (Σιγησάτο παρα σὰρξ βροτεία); translated from Greek to English by Gerard Moultrie, 1864. Music: Picardy, French carol melody. Let all mortal flesh keep silence, And with fear and trembling stand; Ponder nothing earthly minded, For with blessing in His hand, Christ our God to earth descendeth, Our full homage to demand. King of kings, yet born of Mary, As of old on earth He stood, Lord of lords, in human vesture, In the body and the blood; He will give to all the faithful His own self for heavenly food. Rank on rank the host of heaven Spreads its vanguard on the way, As the Light of light descendeth From the realms of endless day, That the powers of hell may vanish As the darkness clears away. At His feet the six wingèd seraph, Cherubim with sleepless eye, Veil their faces to the presence, As with ceaseless voice they cry: Alleluia, Alleluia Alleluia, Lord Most High!

Hmmmm ... I haven't actually *used* it yet, although I'm starting some planning for using with M-girl starting on her birthday. The price seems reasonable to me for the 572 pages, but I have 2 girls to use it for and am starting at the beginning. Maybe Angela in Ohio will see this post ... I know she uses Polished Cornerstones with her girls. Were you able to look at the *.pdf file? It shows you what each chapter looks like. Starting with Bible verses and then gives many ideas starting with ideas for young girls all the way up through adult women. Some of them are references to other Doorposts materials, some of them to other book to read, some of them are ideas like, "talk to your father about ..." "talk to your mother about ..." "Study this in the Bible ..." etc. There are also charts related to some of the recommended activities. I have used other Doorposts materials, and they have all been helpful to me and my small children.

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Maybe Doorposts' Polished Cornerstones? It could last you now through, well, adulthood ... It has projects for ages 5+ (I'm going to start with M-girl when she turns 5) It isn't exactly a study, more a collection of ideas & resources, Bible memory work, and projects to do with the goal of training Godly young women. All of this is arranged topically. (There's a boy version too, obviously you don't need that, but someone else might). I love Doorposts!

I'm not sure my soon to be 5 year old *knows* 40 other kids her age! She has a list of 8 she'd like to invite, we're going to try to pare that down to 6, but would love to do # of children by age ...

I found ours at Michaels, but only after stopping at JoAnn's which didn't carry them. I've found that kids leaning/putting much pressure on them makes them bend a lot ...

"Pie Rack" or "Plate Rack" ... here are some samples?

Friend? Hmmmm .... LOL

Wonderful! Thanks, Paige!

Grilled Chicken with Sesame Noodles .... sooo yummy and easy!

My kids are 4 and under, so we don't worry so much about feet on the floor, but no playing with silverware, hands & feet to yourself, eat what you're served (at least a couple of bites of something new), no yelling or talking over anyone, patiently asking for more of something, "Thank you for the food, may I please be excused." is the standard, expected line at the end of a meal. No, you're not too strict.

I don't think it matters what order you do Letter of the Week in, especially if you're skipping the review weeks. The "math" doesn't really seem to even build on the previous week. I posted earlier that I did it in ETC order, but must admit that I mostly used the book lists and poetry/fingerplay ideas.

I have my littles who aren't ready to really write, do ETC A, B, & C (Get Ready, Get Set, & Go for the Code) as best they can. I don't require all the writing, but they can do the coloring and marking. I really help with Book A (A *LOT* of direction from me) and less and less to book C where I may read the directions (M-girl is reading, so I don't read them for her, but who knows about where the other two will be). I also use a yellow hi-lighter to write what they tell me ... then they trace. I have them do the Letter of the Week activities in the order they do ETC. So say it starts with "Bb" (I can't remember exactly) we do LOTW "B." We do one letter a week; we make a letter book (glue buttons on a "b"), cook b food, and do other b activities (baking, bouncing, whatever). When we're ready for OPG, I'm skipping the first 26 lessons, but I've continued with the ETC primers until they're done (M-girl is working on finishing up book C, right now it is easy for her to do on her own). Please notice that my experience is limited so far to my not-quite 5 year old and my 3.5 year old ... Perhaps I ought to be using ETC 1 since she is reading well, but, well, I'm into finishing this up ... Hope that helps.

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Crockpot beef roast with carrots, celery, and onion. Tomorrow fried rice with leftover beef ...

Everyday Food (cookbook, magazine, PBS show) does seasonal, tasty, easy, nutritious every day food.

What's an RE? Google isn't helping. Thanks!

I think this article goes along with SWB's Stop Cleaning the Kitchen article beautifully. It points us to the slowing down, quietly contemplative necessity of spending time reading quality books. A couple of quotes to whet your appetites. Enjoy!