We were about to read the story of Moses when Emme asked:

"Is he the one with the ark or the one with the stones?"

I tell her that it was Noah who built the ark. 

She says "Then he must be the one with the stones"

It took me a minute, but then I realized, and answered,

"Yes!  He is the one with the 10 Commandments!" 

LOL

She played on Starfall this afternoon for half an hour.  I think my Dad's comment affected her as well.   

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I joined in on the 30 Day Organizational Challenge at I'm-an-Organizing-Junkie.  Check it out!  You can find my before pictures here.

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I ended up not being able to make what I had planned on for dinner tonight because I forgot to get two important ingredients at the store!  (Leave it to me to go to the store sick and forget things like that!)  So, I ended up compromising and using things from our pantry and leftovers to make THREE dinners! 

First I used 2 cans of vegetable broth (I bought this on a big sale w/ coupons) and lots of spices to make a big pot of rice.  Then I put chicken breasts in foil packets with soy sauce, ginger, and garlic.  Next, I sauteed up some peppers from the freezer, onions and garlic that need to be used up by the end of the week and some beef smoked sausage that I had left over from some jambalaya I made awhile back.  I have a small amount of leftover pork roast and veggies in the fridge to make pork fried rice.  Finally, I am going to use the ham I thawed (for the original meal we were supposed to have!) to make some western omelets for dh when he gets home from work.  If there is any left (and there will be!)  I think I will make some ham and cheese breakfast muffins too. 

All of this took very little time to put together because I just utilized leftovers, cleaned out the fridge of veggies, thawed meat, and some pantry items I had on hand!

Now I won't have to cook tomorrow either for lunch or dinner, yay!

I'm really glad that my mindset has changed to a more thrifty one.  Before, just about everything up there would have been thrown away without using it!  Now I can't stand throwing stuff away.  (I still do and it kills me)

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School has been going well all week.  Jennah helped Emme with math, phonics, reading, and our lesson on the election.  She also read her The-Girl-Who-Loved-Wild-Horses and helped her with suggestions for what to draw in her History Scribe book on Native Americans. 

Today we read "Zac the Rat" from Starfall and Emme read it all the way through on her own and really enjoyed it.  I let her pick out a big reward sticker.  Tomorrow we will use the printed booklet that goes along with the book.  

We read about Moses (as you could see above) and colored a picture of him.  I started collecting her crafts and coloring pages and drawings with religious subjects and I am gathering them all together in a folder to start up a new Notebook.  We really love notebooking together.  I have been doing my own "notebooks" for myself too -- I just enjoy the concept!  I'll share what some of them look like someday!

Have a wonderful week,

Sherry