I got this from one or another forum years ago, so not sure who to thank. Anyway, here's a list of books to go with various states for the grammar stage. 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

Love that Capra quote! Think I'll put that in my house! :)

I thought TOG was selling it separately now??

My mom gets these medicated pads from the pharmacy at Wmart called Curad Mediplast. You do have to ask for them. You have to cut the pad to fit the wart and change them every 24 hours.

Nope, not if his mom is right!

We took the boys to a one day Crown Financial seminar and then they did the Money Matters for Teens workbook by Larry Burkett. The workbook reinforced the seminar, and they did learn a lot about credit and such that will stick with them.

I'm taking on some of the cooking this year. Roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, green salad with mandarin oranges-green grapes and almonds, veggie dish: carrots, green beans, onion and fresh tomatoes topped with cheese, pickled beets, pickles, olives. Moms thinking of making eclairs for dessert plus there will be cookies. Mom also has a list of appetizers for later. I'm making a raspberry chipotle sauce to use over cream cheese. Now by New Year's I'm ready for Chinese! Last year I did homemade eggrolls, fried rice and sweet and sour chicken. I may do the same this year!

That's a big part of why my kids have done so many overnights. You pick them up the next day. :) My kids best friends have come from the hs co-op group which we have participated in forever. We did Scouts, attend Sunday School/church, the kids did community sports, but their best friends came from the homeschool community we met at co-op.

Ava Katherine/Katerina Caroline Elizabeth Jenna

Not a movie, but I just got my dd season 1 of Family Affair. Little Buffy and Jody are about as sweet as you get. :) ETA: Oops, thought you wanted it for a Christmas gift, not a Christmas movie!

I joined the group, but can you only have one from each state??

You could perhaps check Freecycle for craft items or used gifts. I'm another who can't remember specific gifts from growing up--except for a used board game the year Dad was on strike. lol My memories are of the time spent together. We didn't have a big Christmas dinner growing up, but we spent all day playing games together. Doing things together is the cement. :)

Thank you! Just printed it to read tomorrow. :lurk5:

Last month one place had a sweet red cabbage for Oktoberfest. I could eat a plateful of that everyday!!

I would definitely tell them. No way would I wait until the sheriff showed up. I think time to discuss it and absorb the ramifications would be a good thing.

Did the shopping for my dd today. Found a Lego house at Sam's Club, and ordered season one of Family Affair. She'll get some outfits for her AG like Stardust doll along with a few other small things. My teen boys will be the hard ones...

Yep. This one.

Goodnight Moon Goodnight Gorilla Anything and everything by Virginia Burton Love You Forever, tho it makes me cry

I'm so sorry, honey! I'll be praying for her family and for you. :grouphug:

Very few photos of me either. Let me see... guess I have to come back and try again later. Gotta run!

We had leftover fried rice and homemade eggrolls. Dh and one son were gone, so it what whatever you want when you're ready. :)

My dh usually lets me get whatever. Every couple years or so he'll come up with an idea we'll run with, like one year we got small air hockey and foosball tables. When the boys were young I asked if there were any toys he'd ever wanted for them and he couldn't come up with one idea. So, I've had free rein for the most part. He's fine with that. I usually spend one day shopping with my mom. :) Gifts for the 19 yr old? Tools, fast food gift cards, shirts, jumper cables. :tongue_smilie:

A tip I got from a forum a few years back was to check the stores first thing Monday morning for marked down meat. Just in case that helps anyone!

Me, too, please! I have printed out lots of good games over the years. So glad people are willing to share! :001_smile:

There are a couple great books by Bob Schultz. One is Created for Work. I can't remember the name of the other one. Christian based, and set up with a short daily reading. I went through both of these with my sons. They are great character building devotions, and written from a working carpenter's life! You may also want to read That's My Son, another book I loved. That one's just for mom. :) My dh has also been a good example of your ideal man, working hard and considering us before himself, and showing faithfulness and service to God and others.