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I'm going to make an even greater effort to post on here at least once a week for the sake of my Aunt who is in Peru.  I am soo excited about the possibility of her coming to visit the end of December beginning of January. It may be a very short visit, but I'll take what we can get!

We have been working thru Prairie Primer and loving it! We have already read "Little House in the Big Woods" and are now in "Little House on the Prairie". One day after reading we pulled out our copy of the movie premier of the TV show. It was fun to watch that and allow it to fill in some of the gaps that my kids had in their understanding of the book. For instance, Knight #2 saw Pa pull out his fiddle in the movie and asked, "What's that??" I was able to tell him that it was his fiddle. Not real sure what Knight #2 thought a fiddle was before that.

At first the kids didn't really care to be read to. Now they beg me to read more chapters than or lesson calls for. I'm loving the wonderful opportunities for reinforcing good character that the Little House books provide.

I'm feeling anxious to move Knigth #1 along in his study of math. Well, not just him but the other two as well. I may read ahead in the Math It stuff and see about how to get him going with multiplication. In the meantime I'm thinking they should add a new set of tiles to what they are practicing each day or two.

In the department of weight loss, I have started a whole new adventure! A friend of mine has been doing this program since the beginning of the summer. I asked her about it and have started it for myself. It is at www.settingcaptivesfree.com and is called "The Lord's Table". I love that it is all about learning to honor the Lord with how I eat and not so much focusing on loosing weight. I have a mentor who stays in contact with me via e-mail and I do daily lessons. The lessons are saturated in scripture. They have two eating plans that are both optional but which facilitate learning how to have a healthy diet. The one I am doing consists of 2 liquids days, 2 half-portion days, 2 normal days, and 1 fast day a week. It is a 60 day course and I have completed my first week.  I've already learned so much just in this first week! Oh, and did I mention that this program is totally FREE???