All right, I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll have to continue with girl scouts.  I tried bringing it up to the girls and they had a fit. 

I am drowning in tomatoes.  I have to freeze some for sauces.  OR make a bunch of sauce and freeze it.  That's what I'll do.  Today I went and bought Once a Month cooking.  I had rented it from the library and liked it right away and went up to Border's to buy it.  I am VERY disapointed that the new revised edition has NONE of th eoriginal scriptures or the section on hospitality.  What a shame.  The library   edition was the older one that had all that in it.  Recipes are the same, but all the Christian-ness (I'm sure not a word!) was taken out of it, also isn't published by Focus on the Family anymore, I'm sure that's why it's secular now, to appease the new publishing company.  I just wanted to call the ladies who wrote it and tell them, "Why did you allow those changes??  You took the best parts out!"  But oh well...Alexis and I have been cooking again.  Yesterday we were making mexican food and she asked "Mom, when are you going to start my cooking lessons like you said you would."  I looked at her and said "what do you think we're doing?"  She wants to use the stove.  OH, the stove.  I have been letting her prepare cold foods or helping me chop, grease and flour pans while I did the hot work.  I'm just not ready to let her near a stove yet.  I saw the coolest homemaking book series at the PA homeschool convention this year and I didn't buy them because it was the 2nd day and I was running out of money.  Now I really wish I would have purchased them.  I think my friend Amy has them though.  But I don't really want to borrow, I want to have!!  That's the bad thing about being a book-aholic.  You want to own every book you see.