Crochet Me Crazy

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My 15 yo son, Michael, has been on a bread making kick with my bread machine for the past week! He's been looking up recipes on the internet to try. So far, everything he's made has been pretty good! Our neighbor, Stephanie, loved his cinnamon raisin bread so much she brought over some bread flour and sugar with a request for him to make her some for her birthday! He tried another recipe that didn't use the bread machine for cinnamon raisin bread and it turned out better than the first. He's made plain white bread, banana bread, Italian Peasant bread. Luckily, the kids eat most of the bread so I don't get fat! He made some really, really good sweet dinner rolls today. Those were so good. Now, I'm going to have to coordinate him making those to serve with one of my dinners one night. It takes a while to make them because you have to roll them, let them rise, and bake them in the over after the bread machine mixes them. He says he's going to cook some food too so we're going to turn this into some Home Economics lessons for school credit. We'll get him to cook a whole meal one night. I'm voting for lasagne! :)

Alison and I ended up buying her math for next year while we were at the homeschooling store. She was actually almost *excited* about the math book when I showed it to her. We bought Modern Curriculum Press Math I went ahead and bought it because I found the Teacher's Manual 1/2 price on the consignment table. I decided I liked this and they also had The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Volume 1 and the teachers book 1/2 off on the consignment table so we bought that too.
I bought Alison the Handwriting Without Tears cursive practice book. She already knows how to write in cursive but she needs some practice, especially after a year of purely computer based school.
I showed this book to Alison and she really wanted this book Doorposts - Polished Cornerstones. It's a $50 book so I'm going to have to find that used somewhere if we get that. That's the kinda of thing I have in mind for Bible this year though. I want to do something that she will choose and study what she wants on her own and just have some resources to gently guide her.

I also bought this book and started reading it to the kids last night:
The Story of the Constitution I realized last night that this is an 8th grade book and might be a little over Alison's head. After all of our Ron Paul campaigning, and realizing how little people understand about our Constitution, this is a fitting subject for our family. Michael has already started reading Good To Be King: The Foundation of Our Constitutional Freedom: Michael Badnarik: Books after hearing Mr. Badnarik speak at a conference we attending several months back. We bought the book for us but he picked it up and started reading. Michael absorbed alot from attending the trainings on Roberts Rules of Order in preparation for our precinct convention meetings after the primary. I know this because when people asked me questions, Michael would answer them if I couldn't remember which term meant what! "That's a division of the question, mom." It was all new to all of us!
Well, even after those purchases, I still have some decisions to make for the other subjects. I'm really feeling led to get out of the box this year though....

Let's see, on the crochet front I am finishing up a potholder tonight to go with the dish towel I was making.

I skimmed the pool and tried to get some of the leaves out while the kids swam. I will be glad when these pollen things quit falling. I just did my regular ol' things around here...washing clothese, etc. This evening I put Weed 'n Feed and the front lawn and re-potted a few plants. Jeff went off to move the camper where he had it stuck in the mud on our friend's property where we are keeping it. I guess that went okay. He was gone all day and came home with some homemade bread he had bought from some lady out there in the country. I think that was supposed to be a peace offering for staying gone all day and not calling! One of them is really good...some sort of nut bread. The other one is french bread and I hope the rest of them eat it because its way to heavy for me.

Well, I'm trying to be a better blogger. I like to keep it up for myself anyway, because it makes a nice record to keep.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!