Wow, that is a LOT for one family! Praying for all your concerns. :grouphug:

Here are some sites I've bookmarked with recipes: http://www.freecoconutrecipes.com/. http://eatnourishing...search-results/

Here's a chronological list of artists you can pull in. I believe MaryAnn Kohl had a book of art lessons that followed history, too. [url=http://www.behindthename.com/namesakes/lists/z_artchro.php]http://www.behindthename.com/namesakes/lists/z_artchro.php[/url

That's all I've used for years, and I've never gotten burned. Most everyone insists they be postal money orders.

Luckily I'm a saver. lol Wish I knew who to thank! :)

I'm so sorry. :grouphug: Praying for comfort for you and your family.

You've gotten great advice. It's got to be illegal to harrass someone--especially when they're calling the wrong person --on purpose!!

Another reason for buying life insurance at this point, is if there are serious health related issues that may cause very high rates when they go to buy later or in case they become uninsurable . Yes, at this point they are not married with dependents, but if there's a big risk for becoming uninsurable later, or with exorbatant rates when they go to get it later, at least they have SOME and at a very low annual premium! I don't know about buying stocks and bonds at this point, not knowing anything about it. Here's something I had bookmarked: http://www.smg2000.org/

And it's only good on books bought new from Amazon, not on the used books, am I right? Just received a trial, but don't want to spend more on books since I usually buy used. And I'm not seeing the Kindle or video options as beneficial to us...

What a cutie! lol My kids would want to take her home. :)

You might also like the books listed in Ambleside Online's booklist by year, which includes the great Holling books, Kon Tiki, and more: http://amblesideonline.org/index2.shtml

Same with this list: Alabama: A Picture Book of Rosa Parks - Adler From Plant to Blue Jeans - Hommedieu (re: cotton) Life on a Plantation - Kalman Plantations - Stone Eli Whitney - Alter Alaska: Mama Do You Love Me? A Child's Alaska Mush! Circle of Thanks Akiak Arizona: Tuesday in Arizona Cottonwood Trees - Prevost Squirrel's Song - Wolkstein Is My Friend at Home? Bierhorst Arkansas: Come Go With Me: Old Time Stories From the Southern Mountains - Thomas (re: Oachita Mountains) California: How Far Felipe? Smoky Night Condor's Egg Striking it Rich Nine for California Colorado: Fat Chance Claude Stones, Bones and Petroglyphs - Goodman Native Americans and Mesa Verde - Martell Connecticut: Solomon Grundy Warm as Wool (or Ohio?) Delaware: The Legend of the Cranberry The Light in the Forest (books on tape) Standing in the Light (video) Florida: Elizabeth and Larry and Ed A Visit to Grandma's St. Augustine (video) A Kid's Guide to Florida The Great Pig Search Freddy Goes to Florida All Dressed up and Nowhere to Go My Family Vacation The Worst Goes South Beezy Georgia: Georgia Music Peach and Blue - Kilborne A Confederate Girl - Steele Mama and Me and the Model T Hawaii: The Last Princess: Ka'Iulani - Guzzetti Haleakalala National Park - Radlander Hawaii in Words and Pictures - Fradin The Last Hawaiian Queen - Stanley The Island Below the Star Dear Katie, the Volcano is a Girl - George Punia and the King of Sharks Luka's Quilt Idaho: Mailing May Wolf: Return of a Legend (video re: Sawtooth Mountains) One Potato - Porter Sunday Potatoes, Monday Potatoes - Shiefman More Potatoes - Belsam Potato - Watts The Enormous Potato - Davis Potato: A Tale From the Great Depression - Leid Illinois: The Journey Joshua's Westward Journal Indiana: The Floating House Story of Johnny Appleseed - Aliki True Tale of Johnny Appleseed - Hodges Johnny Appleseed: A Tall Tale - Steven Kellogg Johnny Appleseed: The Story of a Legend - Will Moses A Place Called Freedom Iowa: Eve and Smithy Story of Paul Bunyan - Emberly Kansas: Wagon Wheels The Loudest, Fastest, Best Drummer in Kansas Climbing Kansas Mountains The Van Gogh Cafe Kentucky: Your Best Friend, Kate Daniel Boone Just in Time for Christmas Kentucky Troll: Mysteries Underground (nat. geo. video on Mammoth Cave, et al) 'B' is for Bluegrass Kentucky in Words and Pictures Louisiana: Why Lapin's Ears are Long All the "Clovis Crawfish" books Mimi and Jean Paul's Cajun Mardi Gras Cajun Through and Through Feydra Leroux: A Cajun Tall-Tale Maine: Blueberries for Sal One Morning in Maine Miss Rumphius Grandpappy Grandmother Bryant's Pocket Time of Wonder Maryland: Molly Bannaky Massachusetts: Make Way for Ducklings Cranberry Thanksgiving She's Wearing a Dead Bird on her Head A Picture Book of Paul Revere Plimoth Plantation (video) Across the Wide, Dark Sea Paul Revere's Midnight Ride Which Way to the Revolution Letting Swift River Go Michigan: Paul Bunyan: How a Terrible Timber Fellar Became a Legend - Rogers Paul Bunyan Fights the Monster Plants - Blassingame The Christmas Tree Ship The Log Cabin Church Mrs. Mack Minnesota: Follow the Stars: A Native American Woodlands Tale - Rodanas Legend of the Lady Slipper - Lunge-Larsen Sacred Harvest: Wild Rice - Reggiunti Mississippi: Freedom School, Yes! Oh Lord, I Wish I was a Buzzard Grandaddy's Gift Little Toot on the Mississippi Missouri: Mark Twain and Huck Finn - Ross River Boy: The Story of Mark Twain - Anderson Mark Twain and the Queens of the Mississippi - Harness Mark Twain? What Kind of Name is That? Quackenbush (what kind of name is *that*?) Tom Sawyer, Danger in the Graveyard - Richardson Tom Sawyer Gives up the Brush (video - 30 minutes) Wagons West! Fiddlin' Sam Dengler There Goes Lowell's Party - Hershenhorn Montana: Once We Had a Horse Nebraska: Dandelions The Huckabuck Family Nevada: Tulip Sees America (covers several states) Any books on desert life, particularly the Mojave, would work for studying this state. Books on red rock canyonlands would also work. New Hampshire: Ox Cart Man (or is this Vermont?) Lucy's Summer Sara Whitcher's Story New Jersey: The Colony of New Jersey The 18 Penny Goose New Mexico: Josephina books Spanish and Colonial Santa Fe (video) Carlos and the Cornfield Cowboy's Roundup on an American Ranch Los Posadas: An Hispanic Christmas Celebration Grandmother's Adobe House New York: My New York How Pizza Came to Queens Anna, Grandpa and the Big Storm The Inside-Outside Book of New York City Liberty The Story of the Statue of Liberty Joe and the Skyscraper Under New York North Carolina: Back Home My Great Aunt Arizona Mountain Boy The Colony of North Carolina The Jack Tales Grandfather's Land: We are Mountain People - Fitch North Dakota: River Friendly, River Wild – Kurtz Thrashin' Time: Harvest Days in the Dakotas Ohio: Aurora Means Dawn Lentil (Warm as Wool may fit better here than previously stated state) Flatboats on the Ohio: Westward Bound Oklahoma: I Have Heard of a Land Angels in the Dust They Came From the Bronx: How the Buffalo Were Saved Oregon: Oregon's Journey Long Ago in Oregon Roughing it on the Oregon Trail Pennsylvania: Just Plain Fancy A Humble Life: Plain Poems The Folks in the Valley The Egg Tree The Colony of Pennsylvania Pioneer Church Bewildered for Three Days Punxatawney Phil Rhode Island: Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams The Colony of Rhode Island Loud and Crowing (Rhode Island Red roosters) Roger Williams and Rhode Island (video) South Carolina: Carolina Shout! The Colony of South Carolina South Dakota: Mount Rushmore (two titles) Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox - Bleeter Tennessee: Swamp Angel Davy Crockett (Rabbit Ears, w/ tape) Lucky with Potatoes (do they grow these in Tennessee?) Texas: Legend of the Bluebonnet Beats Me, Claude Armadillo Rodeo Bluebonnet at Dinosaur Valley State Park Bubba the Cowboy Prince Susanna of the Alamo The Inside-Outside Book of Texas Armadillo from Amarillo The West Texas Chili Monster Jalepeno Hal The Cowboy and the Black-eyed Pea Fish Fry Freedom's Gifts: A Juneteenth Story Ganzy Remembers Prairie Christmas A Cowboy Named Ernestine Utah: Salt Lake City - Doubleday Grandfather's Gold Watch Vermont: Least of All The Wonderful Hay Tumble Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf Snowflake Bentley Virginia: The Relatives Came When the Whipoorwill Calls One Christmas Dawn Appalachia: Voices of Sleeping Birds The Blue Hill Meadows Night in the Country This Year's Garden Washington: Island Time A Horse's Tale West Virginia: When I was Young in the Mountains In November But I'll be Back Again Scarecrow Silver Packages Waiting to Waltz Wisconsin: Giant Ball of String Dance at Grandpa's Christmas in the Big Woods Winter Days in the Big Woods The Deer in the Wood Going to Town Summertime in the Big Woods Wyoming: Tonweya and the Eagles - YellowRobe Lakota Hoop Dancer - LeftHandBull Iktomi and the Buzzard - Goble Jack Creek Cowboy Washington, D.C.: Capitol: Washington, D.C. From A to Z The White House The Wall Inside-Outside Book of Washington, D.C. Puerto Rico: The Outside Dog Take a Trip to Puerto Rico Sergio and the Hurricane Abuelita's Paradise Virgin Islands: The Day the Hurricane Happened Izzard Pacific Territories: U.S. Territories and Possessions Pacific Islands

I'm sorry I can't credit the person who made the following list, but I saved this years ago. a book by DK called Children Just Like Me: Celebrations! Children From Australia to Zimbabwe: A Photographic Journey Around the World, by Maya Ajmera and Ana Rhesa Versola. Australia: Pumpkin Runner, Arnold Where the Forest Meets the Sea, Baker Bossy Boots, Cox Bright Star, Crew Dial-a-Croc, Dumbleton Flood Fish, Eversole Possum Magic, Fox (home?) Big Rain Coming, Germein Don’t Dig so Deep, Nicholas! Harrison Counting by Kangaroos, Hulme Ernie Dances to the Didgeridoo, Lester Wombat Goes Walkabout, Morpurgo Rainforest Children, Pittawpy Farmer Schulz’s Ducks, Thiele Snap! Vaughan Wombat Stew, Vaughan Biggest Frog in Australia (home) Rescuers Down Under – video A Waltz Through the Hills – video Old Shell, New Shell, Ward Old Woman Who Loved to Read, Winch Brazil: Count your way through Brazil, Haskins How Night Came From the Sea, Gerson Amazon Boy, Lewin In a Bottle with a Cork on Top, Skurzynski China: Ruby’s Wish, Bridges Story of Kites, Compestine Visit to China, Packard Moon Festival, Russell Chinese New Year, Schaefer Chinatown, Low My Chinatown: One Year in Poems, Mak Dominican Republic: Dominican Republic – Cobblestone Ecuador: Kid’s Discover: Equator France: King’s Day: Louis XIV of France, Aliki Giraffe that Walked to Paris, Milton Joan of Arc: Heroine of France, Tompert King Tree, French Boneparte, Chall Happy Lion, Fatio Happy Lion in Africa, Fatio Happy Lion’s Quest Happy Lion’s Rabbits Happy Lion’s Treasure Happy Lion’s Vacation Three Happy Lions (do all these really have to do with France?) Jean-Marie at the Fair, Francoise (and other Jean-Marie books) Inspector Peckit, Freeman Dinner at Mabritte’s, Garland Truffle Hunter, Moore Harry and Lulu, Yorinks Guatemala: Mama and Papa have a Store, Carling Abuela’s Weave, Castaneda Sleeping Bread: Story, Czernecki Iguana Beach, Franklin Hungary: Song for Lena, Hippely India: Heart of a Tiger, Arnold Story of Little Babaji, Bannerman Story of Little Black Sambo, Bannerman Lakshui, the Water Buffalo Who Wouldn’t, Gobhai Cow for Jaya, Grant Poombah of Badoombah, Lillegard Baya, Baya, Lulla-by-a, McDonald Gay-Neck: Story of a Pidgeon, Mukerji (audio) Golden Serpent, Myers Rikki-Tikki – video Nine Animals and the Well, Rumford Japan: Old Man who Made the Trees Bloom, Jijii Magic Fan, Baker Crane Girl, Charles Painter and the Wild Swans, Clement How My Parents Learned to Eat, Friedman (audio) Ten Oni Drummers, Gollub Girl from the Snow Country, Hidaka Kenji and the Magic Geese, Johnson Yoshi’s Feast, Kajikawa Carp for Kimiko, Kroll Seven Gods of Luck, Kudler Yoshiko and the Foreigner, Little Moshi, Moshi, London Dragon Kite, Luenn Pair of Red Clogs, Matsuno Cherry Tree, MacCaughrean Emperor’s Plum Tree, Nikly Tea with Milk, Say Long Silk Strand, Williams Kenya: Ndito Runs, Anderson Family in Kenya, Griffin Lithuania: Music of the Soviet Union (Lithuanian folksongs) Lithuania, Lerner Publications Mexico: Mexico ABC’s, Hieman Hummingbird’s Gift, Czernecki Manuela’s Gift, Estes Nine Days to Christmas, Ets Under the Lemon Moon, Fine How Nanita Learned to Make Flan, Geeslin In Rosa’s Mexico, Geeslin On Ramon’s Farm, Geeslin Moon was at a Fiesta, Gollub Twenty-five Mixtec Cats, Gollub Lorenzo, the Naughty Parrot, Johnston Day of the Dead, Johnston Magic Maguey, Johnston Ghost Wings, Joosse Piggy Bank Gonzales, Kent Butterfly Boy, Kroll Hill of Fire, Lewis (audio) Blanca’s Feather, Madrigal Trandi’s Braids, Madrigal Blue Bug Visits Mexico, Poulet Today is the Day, Riecken Mice and Beans, Ryan Nigeria: Take a Trip to Nigeria, Lye Bikes for Rent! Olaleye Grandfather’s Work, Onyefulu Mysterious Gold and Purple Box, Watson Saying Goodbye, Onyefulu Oman: An Arab Family, Dutton Philippines: Take a Trip to the Philippines, Oleksy Qatar: Qatar, Augustin Russia: A Look at Russia, Frost Babushka Babayaga, Polacco Philipok, Tolstoy Little Kim’s Doll, Yaroshevskaya Three Cheers for Catherine the Great, Best (audio) Apple Pie and Onions, Caseley A Piece of Home, Levitin Trees of the Dancing Goats, Polacco Uncle Vova’s Tree, Polacco Dream Jar, Pryor Twenty-two Russian Tales for Young Children, Tolstoy Senegal: In Bikole: Eight Modern Stories About Life in a West African Village, Gilroy Senegal in Pictures, Lerner Publications Turkey: Take a Trip to Turkey, Lye United States Since we’re also doing a more specific US study, I’ve chosen books from all the other “U†countries: Ukraine: Ukraine – Cobblestone Uganda: Beatrice’s Goat, McBrier (this is about the Heifer Project) Uruguay: Uruguay in Pictures, Haverstock United Kingdom: The Queen’s Progress: An Elizabethan Alphabet, Davidson Anno’s Britain, Anno Country Mouse Cottage: How we Lived 100 Years Ago, Brooks Town Mouse House: How we Lived 100 Years Ago, Brooks Vietnam: Vietnam, Allard Lotus Seed, Garland Grandfather’s Dream, Keller Walking Stick, Trottier Western Samoa: Samoans – Cobblestone Yemen: Yemen in Pictures, Lerner Publications Zimbabwe: Gugu’s House, Stock Where are You Going, Manyoni? 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And here's a self-guided syllabus with mostly online resources, if you want. I ran across this recently. http://lewrockwell.com/woods/woods177.html

That they use a card for this now is interesting! I've fought against having an HSA for the last several years because I don't have time to file claims to get my money back, nor to pay into the account and pay the medical bills at the same time. You're making this sound worthwhile now!

The pc fix-it man here said AVG (which I was using) isn't as good as it used to be. He set me up with Avast. Still free.

Nice! Thanks for sharing!!

I liked it much better than the Biology! Very logically set up, with the point to understand how the periodic table is set up and what the elements are, and very well planned. It starts with biographic material on all the folks who were instrumental in discovering the beginning elements through when the table was developed. My ds who loves biographies loved that part! It does not include the math many might like included in a high school class. If you've used Biology 101 you know what his set up of 'classes' is like. I think one could add easily to 'fatten up' the class, but for me and my non-future scientific sons, it is a great basics of chemistry. I highly recommend it, especially for the logic stage! Can't wait for the physics class that should come out next year!

One I don't see listed yet is Watercolor Painting.

That dark purple is GORGEOUS!! Sure wish I had somewhere to wear it--and that it would look like that on me. lol

Just signed up this weekend. http://pinterest.com/tina_/ This is so fun! Much better way to find bookmarks again, huh? Love love love looking at everyone's pages!

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When dd was born we had living next door a Kathy, Katie, and Kitty. We stuck with the whole name, although I favor Kate to shorten it, tho dd likes Kat. :001_smile:

I, too, pray for your friend and her little one. Has she googled Indian baby names? There should be some lists available that way.

The state organization here said groups are in a decline in general, all over. In some places more families are doing K-12 or something, and just staying at home to school. That said, I'm part of a co-op that's been around for about 15 years. We started initially with specific classes for various age groups, as enrichment to do things in a group setting. Art, science, math/geography games, and music (6th and under) and art, science and speech for 7th and up. The group met bi-weekly through the school year. 8 years ago the teens switched to doing a dinner theatre and the yearbook. Several years ago the music class for the youngers changed to a Team challenge class; highly creative and artsy fun with a shared project. A year or two later, a band and choir were started (with a paid instructor), these on a weekly basis, along with more academic classes taught by parents- foreign language, watercolor painting, algebra, chemistry, etc. Then we had more young kids there waiting, so some parents put together PE, preschool, lit discussion, etc., so every age would have choices. We offered whatever someone wanted to teach; the instructor basically charged for her books and materials. Some classes were just a half year. BTW, does your group have a website or host a homeschooling 101 at Barnes and Noble or someplace that would let newer homeschoolers know about you? Where can new homeschoolers get info on your group ? Fast forward to last year, and for the bi-weekly classes, we were losing our younger groups as we aged out/graduated. At the weekly classes, attendance had dropped to no one wanting to teach a filler class, but everyone wanting band and choir yet. These parents were afraid of the bi-weekly classes because they had to TEACH! We had to merge the two groups due to the cost of building usage. And everyone (well almost everyone) loved it! Merging band and choir into the schedule was a bit tricky, but it was nice really being one group again! The year end evaluations said they wanted it to stay together. Cost? $20 annual fee, $40 per child for all, plus band and choir fees for those instructors if you take those. BTW, band and choir only met at another location last year for the odd weeks, and that was covered by donations at the band/choir programs. I think your fees would be prohibitive for folks here, and I wouldn't like the 10 week classes. I prefer the bi-weekly classes that stretch through the school year for 16-17 weeks. BTW, we have moms team teaching the bi-weekly classes. They can take turns or trade months, or one be lead teacher as long as the two agree on it. BTW, does your group have a website or host a homeschooling 101 at Barnes and Noble or someplace that would let newer homeschoolers know about you? Where can new homeschoolers get info on your group ?