Our menu is not finalized but so far I've got:
Turkey
Brisket
Stuffing
Cranberry Sauce
Green Bean and Egg (A relative is bringing this so I have no idea how to make it)
Mashed Potatoes
Mushroom Kugel
Oven Roasted Root Vegetables
for Dessert:
Mousse Cake from the Carousel Bakery (any members from the Rockland County area should know this fab bakery)
Apple Pie
Fruit Salad
Teaspoon of honey. If that is not enough a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar followed by honey. I try to drink lots and lots of water throughout the day.
Elementary School-I can name them all.
Shore Road Elementary School
Principal: Mr. Bruck
K-Miss Hawli
1st- Mrs. Balin
2nd - Mrs. Laverty (The teacher my mother blames for my lifetime of math struggles)
3rd - Mrs. Schienhorn & Miss Cuchi (It was the 70's. A year they experimented with dual classrooms. Wall knocked out between the classrooms-everything taught together)
4th- Mrs. Vogel (Lovely woman but to this day I can remember her digging her fingernail into my right cheek trying to make a matching dimple to my left cheek)
5th - Mr. Bobrowsky
6th- Mrs. Lubin
Art: Mrs. Bloom (It is driving me nuts that I can't remember her maiden name. It related to bloom because the big joke was that she got married and bloomed)
Music: Mrs. Seigel
Gym: There were 2 gym teachers but I can't remember their names.
Jr. High & High School I remember some of the teachers but not all of them.
I give my grandma flowers. I have done so for the past 7 years (she is 97). She has more nightgowns then she will ever use, stationary, jewelry, clothes, etc.
This is the one I have. I love it. Once it overheated when I was making a large batch of a very dense dough but once it cooled down it was fine. I learned-can't double that recipe.
I am stricter about it in the warm weather as we are very fair and burn easily. In the cooler months we are not outside for hours on end so I want to make sure they get their vitamin d exposure.
However, my children feel very persecuted by the sunblock experience.
We don't say it because I do not believe reciting the pledge determines whether or not you truly do have allegiance. Reciting by rote does not a Patriot make. Patriotism is shown through action.
However, if my kids want to say it I have no problem with it.
As the subject is completed we go over it. Depending on the mistake, my mood, position of the planets, I either have them redo the problem, explain to me what is incorrect, or just go over the mistake so they know what they did wrong and then move on to the next thing.
I am so sorry about your father.
I was in the same situation 2 years ago when my father passed away. It is not an easy decision to make. In the end, my children did not attend my father's funeral because I thought it best if they did not see their great-grandmother hysterical with grief. I went to the cemetery with my children at a later date.
I take Dr. Mercola with a grain of salt. I agree with a lot that he has to say but after awhile was turned off by the sales pitchy tone of his newsletter. I take the information I find interesting and keep researching.