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Since I have not changed my description on the side bar there, I'd better say something about food and literature. I don't think I've ever said anything profound, unless I am quoting someone else. I suppose my profound thought for today, which isn't mine originally but it is good, would be that homeschooling is about steady plodding. Once you've made some major goals for your children, determined their learning style, decided on your education style and chosen the curriculum, you just have to do it. It's about doing the next right thing. There aren't fireworks very often. At least not the kind that are celebrating the wonderful job you're doing. You just have to get up everyday with those goals in mind, seek the Lord's guidance and get to it. "Just keep swimming", as Dory would say. Okay, back to food and literature, which I guess are my two favorite things. I don't like food in great quantities, but excellent food is quite enjoyable. Tonight I am making Chicken Caesar pasta, so here is the recipe: 2 large boneless skinnless chicken breats, cut up as for stir fry 1 pkg mushrooms, sliced 1 bag or 1 bunch spinach, washed and spun dry 1 box bowtie noodles 1 bottle Caesar dressing ( I use Cardini's. Don't use Kraft or something really white and creamy)
Saute the chicken in a few tablespoons of dressing. Add the mushrooms and cook until the chicken is done. Meanwhile bring your water to boil for the noodles. Add the rest of the bottle of dressing and the spinach to the chicken and mushrooms and cover and turn off the heat. Pour the noodles in the boiling salted water. When they are done drain them and add to the sauce. That's it. Okay, literature. Alicia (13) is currently reading The Portrait of A Lady, by Henry James. Katey (16) is finishing up Sherlock Holmes, and plans next to read Anna Karenina. I, on the other hand, am not reading anything at the moment. I tried Uncle Tom's cabin but, knowing what happens, essentually, I couldn't get into it. I have discovered happily that Jeff Baldwin has a Great Books website. I really like his writing on literature and he has written a book about worldviews. I cannot recall the exact name offhand, but it has the word monster in it. He uses, appropriately for an English major, Frankenstein and Jekyll and Hyde as metaphors for the worldview discussion. I will add links later for those things. Now I must go finish supper.
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