THINKING ABOUT HOMESCHOOLING!!

With all that I have been hearing about what goes on in our schools I am starting to think that homeschooling is the right way to go. Our children deserve the best we can give them and in most cases the parents are the best teachers. We start to teach our children from the day they are born. We teach them to get dressed to potty train, and even how to eat. When our children go into kindergarten and know their colors, their shapes and their alphabet, we did that! Ever since my first child was born I have fought for parental rights. This is not easy to do. When I served on our local Board of Education our biggest hurdle was trying to reach all of the parents. We  are researching all of the different curriculums out there and are trying to see which is the best for us. Do any of you homeschool? Is it easy or hard?

THANK GOODNESS THATS OVER !!

I have not been able to write for a week.  On Monday I had to have a tooth pulled. After 6 shots of novacaine with no end in sight to the pain, the doctor wanted to knock me out. I just wanted to get it over. So he gave me some laughing gas and proceeded. Needless to say Mommy and http://www.dealsharingaunt.blogspot.com/ other half, she was watching Bobo and Sissy, heard me yelling from the pain. When I finally practically ran out after jumping out of the chair as soon as I could the side of my face was huge. The pain since then has been almost unbearable. While I was there I got to really see how important it is to have insurance. People before me were talking about making payments on bills for hundreds of dollars. We all need to have affordable insurance available to us! I am still having trouble eating but hopefully I will feel better each day. My children took good care of me and that was the best Mother's Day present they could have ever given me. I even got a huge tomato plant in a pot, 2 bouquets of roses, gift cards, a trinket box that Bobo designed in school, dinner of my choice and more. I am very lucky. Nana

KEEPING COOL IN THE SUMMER BUT STILL HAVING GREAT DINNERS

I guess some people may think I am nuts but I really love to cook in the summer. I love to use my CROCKPOT  while going around my day to day errands. I love to make potato salad ahead so that it is really cold for dinner! I like to go to local vegetable stands and cook fresh vegetables.   One thing I used to make is SUN TEA.  Just get a large glass pitcher put about 6 tea bags with the tag hanging over the edge. Put it somewhere in your kitchen where the sun shines in. In a few hours you will  have delicious iced tea. Add ice and you are good to go!
Mommy and Sissy and I are going to love making pot roast in out CROCKPOT. So we are getting ready while the prices are right. Today Mommy went to STOP AND SHOP near our house and got 6 pot roasts for only $1.99 a pound on sale from $5.99.  They actually came to about $5.00 each. Peel a few potatoes , throw in some carrots and you are all set until dinner time. We like to use onions and seasonings for pot roasts but sometimes we just improvise.
A really great way to make a cheap dinner is to but a thick steak that seems to have meat with a amount of fat . We took 2 of those on Tuesday put them in the CROCKPOT and after a few hours very tender meat broke away from the bone. It served all of us instead of fighting with meat that was tough it was very tender.

STARTING OUR SEEDS FOR OUR GARDEN

This week we have started to show Bobo and Sissy how much fun it is to plant your own seeds and then replant as they grow bigger and bigger. dealsharingaunt@gmail.com Mommy's little sister gave the 2 kids little plastic greenhouses that came with seeds. One had tomatoes the other had flowers. Within a week they were touching the top of the plastic! Yesterday during a tag sale we had, we replanted them into bigger pots. They are so excited and cannot wait until it is warm enough to plant. The past few nights we  had freeze warnings.  I was excited, (but no one else was) when Daddy couldn't mow the lawn and we got to pick dandelions and we blew them to show the little seeds blow away. There are so many things in nature that we can use to teach our children.  Nature is free for all of us to enjoy whenever we want.

PARENTS NEED TO TAKE BACK OUR RIGHTS WHEN IT COMES TO OUR CHILDREN !

I am so tired and downright scared about what is happening to our precious children in our schools. Within a few weeks we have read about a 6 year old girl being handcuffed for having a tantrum! A group of kindergartners are brought to a jail (according to the kids) when the permission slips signed by the parents said something different. It was just a short time ago we learned that a school actually had a scream room where children were brought and not allowed to leave.
It makes me mad and makes me cry for these children all at the same time. We as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, sisters, brothers and everyone else involved with our children need to say enough! What gives anyone the right to harm our children either physically or emotionally? We hear the same argument for the reason they have to do this, because parents do not discipline their children. What a joke. This is what the schools wanted years ago and even to this day when they try to teach everything but what they are supposed to teach. When they told parents that they could not discipline their children. If anyone else did these things they would be in jail.
So, what is the remedy? In my mind the remedy is for schools to teach academics and allow the parents to teach the rest. After all isn't this one of our rights under the Constitution.

TESTING CAN BE DONE WITHOUT HAVING TO PROVE YOUR IDENTITY MORE THAN ONCE

I almost didn't write about this but, after getting more and more concerned I decided I was going to. One of Mommy's sisters is very close to getting her teaching degree, yeh !!!
Yesterday she went to take one of her necessary tests and when she came home I could not believe what she told me. First she was fingerprinted , then her palm was scanned and after all that they had to empty their pockets!! She had to leave to go to the ladies room and when she came back , about 5 minutes later the same people that so her go out made her scan her palm twice because it wasn't in the same exact position. When that didn't work they asked her if she was sweating. I am appalled. The schools are asking us to entrust our most beloved possessions, our children, to our teachers, yet, the message they are sending, at least to this grandmother that they do not even trust them to take a test. What a joke! We deserve an explanation, heck. they deserve an explanation. Many years ago I served on our local board of education for 4 years. yes, I do believe in fingerprinting anyone who teaches or works with our children. I do, however, think that this is just a little too extreme. As I wrote a few days ago I am getting back to doing what I love, helping our children succeed.

BOOK REVIEW BRUSH OF ANGELS WINGS BY RUTH REID

I was able to read the book Brush of Angels Wings by Ruth Reid, a part the Heaven on Earth series. The Amish community had standards for what a bride should be. But, Rachel Hartzler certainly did not fit into their ideas. She is a field hand who is not afraid to work, a really bad cook and grieving the horrible loss of her brother.
Then she meets Jordan Engles, a man hired by her father so that Rachel could learn how to sew and cook and not spend her time in the fields. Her father hoped that this would help her find a husband. She is upset that her father really doesn't act like he wants her to help and she resents him for trying to replace her brother.Jordan's mother has passed away and he promised that he would see if he liked his Amish roots. He fully thought that this would be over soon. When she did die he came to live with his uncle Isaac. He cannot wait to leave when he finds that they attend church for 3 hours and they are too strict for his liking.
Enter Nathaniel, an angel of God, who can see that Jordan's heart and Rachel's heart surely have a chance to get together. He tries to show them the way to heal and find love along the way.
How can she bear the loss of her sister in childbirth and go on after losing her brother? How and will she be able to turn her back on her family when they seem to need her most?
This book was a very sad book. Although I love books about Amish life this was a little too sad for me. I even found myself crying while I was reading it. It was well written story and seemed to have the usual ending but, I would have liked to see a little more gladness and not so much heartbreak. I was given this book by www.booksneeze.com with no their compensation for purpose of a review. All opinions are 100% my own.