I just have to say, that I have read many of your posts here over the past year (maybe more at the old board? I can't remember), and I am always so impressed at the job you seem to be doing with homeschooling your kids!!! You don't ever seem to be panicking about anything - you seem so confident and calm or something. Anyway, just wanted you to know that someone noticed, and you are encouraging to me!

Hope your arm is feeling better, too.

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Hey, I enjoyed your thread about "making history connections!" It was helpful to me, too, to read some of the responses! Hang in there, OK?

Hi Jane! With legumes, mostly I just cook a bunch of them in my 6 qt. crockpot, then freeze them in 3 cup containers (enough for a meal for my family). When they are frozen, I pop the blocks out and store them in ziploc (well, Superstore no name brand) bags in the freezer. Then I just take a block out for a meal. I put them in chili, in homemade tortillas, I flavour them with whatever and serve them on rice or noodles or with bread, with veggies. Flavourings: bacon bits, bits of cooked sausage or cooked hamburger, garlic, cooked onion, pepper flakes, cumin, anything that I sniff and decide would smell good in beans! Homemade BBQ sauce (mustard, ketchup, garlic, soya sauce). I make soup out of them, just adding water and whatever veggies I have on hand, then freeze the soup, too. I don't really have recipes anymore, I just think in terms of a protein serving, a grain serving, and two veggie servings for each person. Hope you are doing well!

Some of your posts. I just notice your name a lot on some of the posts I'm interested in, too.

Hello, just dropping by to say I think you're doing a great job with figuring out how you want to homeschool your kids! :)

Oh, dear, no baby yet, I see. Two weeks over.....do I ever know how you feel. Nothing more for me to say, except ((((((((((((((OhElizabeth))))))))))))))! :)

I "see" you online.....hang in there, the baby WILL come! :) When you give up canning, sewing, and crocheting, take up a new hobby - how about knitting, or bead weaving, or macrame, or drawing.....or dream up some new casseroles to put away in the freezer. Thinking of you! :)

Hi Dayle! I just saw Beth's thread about the hurricane, so you can go read how we fared. :) Hope you guys are doing well these days!

Thanks again for the kind note!!!!!!