California, Homeschooling, Unalienable Rights

For Aisa, American Government credits, discussion, possible paper... the 4Real thread that has all the links but I'd like you to read this one at least: Homeschooling and Constitutional Rights Much food for thought, huh.

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Links and a Recipe

Baby Poems over at Martha's, Yes They're All Ours! The American Mathematics Competitions MathCounts Latin Spell Checker Catholic Music Network Spirit and Song Why Eating a Big Mac is Cheaper than Eating a Salad Latin Altar Card (pdf file) Altar Cards in Word format...

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This Morning’s Language Lesson

Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location New Dictionary Highlights Nazi Words to Avoid (what do you think about the comment on the Catholic Church, Ais?) Word by word, tribes begin to find their voice Retired Teacher Reveals He Was Illiterate Until Age 48...

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Decluttering, Again

Decluttering, Again

Image: Sarah Brown It's the Third Week of Lent, and we have not made much progress on our goal to PURGE, PURGE, PURGE. We have so much STUFF! We've been here two years, and I can't really make the excuse anymore that we've been moving, this is our 9th home in 18+...

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Learning the Liturgy of the Hours

One of the things I promised myself to do this Lenten season is to learn how to pray the Divine Office. As a poorly catechized Catholic, I still get things mixed up, so I *think* the Divine Office is the same as the Liturgy of the Hours, and the Breviary, but please...

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Another MHBB possibility

Anne in Oz keeps her hubby healthy with these herby salads. I've seen many of these mentioned in Prescription for Nutritional Healing so I'm trying to grow some of them again this year, but I was unsure how exactly to use them fresh. Now I don't have to wonder, as...

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MHBB 07 February 2008

1 and 2. Rice noodles tossed with Szechwanese meat sauce (leftover from Fat Tuesday) 3. pineapple chunks 4. sliced apples

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MHBB for 04 Feb 08

1. Leftover chili from Superbowl Sunday Dinner 2. Rice 3. Carrot sticks and apple slices 4. Mixed greens with apricot-apple cider dressing

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Ground Meat Recipes

One of the moms at 4Real asked for ground beef recipes, so I thought I'd put several simple ones here -- not really recipes but more like guides. We've been having more ground meat lately because they made up the bulk of the grass-fed beef we had ordered from Grass...

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In the Thick of Advent

In the Thick of Advent

How's your Advent going? Ours is still pretty tame, much tamer than it has been in years past. There is something to be said about getting oneself organized enough BEFORE the holiday rush. I'll have to make a resolution list about the holidays soon, but first on that...

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The Plan for Advent and Christmas

The Plan for Advent and Christmas

Image: Tim Mossholder Scripture Readings for Jesse Tree Advent Wreath Prayer December 2, First Sunday of Advent Purple Tablecloth, Purple Ornaments Jesse Tree Ornament 5 - camel / Abraham December 3 St. Francis Xavier - Read aloud from Saints and Feast Days Trace Paul...

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Making Lemonade (Latin Rap)

The morning started out with cranky kids and a cranky mom -- I woke up late and we didn't get to attend Mass, then had several distractions early on. We started out Latin with not the best of attitudes/behaviors. Migi was up to his old tricks, yelling out the...

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Donate Rice, Learn Vocabulary

I just donated 2030 grains of rice, and learned some new words in the process! Warning: it's so much fun, and highly addictive!! Free Rice Thank you, Irene!

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