Feb. 1, 2008 - how does training look?
I am so pleased at how our children have been doing for church training. It goes very well if I'm sitting behind them and watching to correct them immediately whenever they forget to sit still or fidget with their hands. I try to teach them to keep their hands in their lap but you can see here that our 2 yo was adjusting. The two youngest are allowed to sit a little different as I think their legs would get tired/fall asleep. I am open to suggestions though! In this picture you can see our "Mr. Speaker" (the radio) I even put hair on our radio for a while to get the kids to laugh. I say look at Mr speaker and they can pretend they're at church. Our children say they love church and I am grateful for that. We are still doing an hour and a half of our tapes daily. A few days we only did one side but that's still 45 minutes. We have borrowed 4 chairs from church for a few weeks to keep it real.
Here's a picture of our pantry after I went and stocked up at Walmart. I use the pantry for craft boxes (on the bottom), games, school supplies and various other paper goods. I like having this pantry as we don't really have room for non-perishable food elsewhere. This week I bought a few extra items like Corn flakes (generic) for a recipe in a cookbook that my mom bought me for my birthday called, "Rachel Ray's 366 no repeats" It's a baked chicken with a corn flake coating. I cook almost all if not all of our food from scratch (aside from the occasional English muffins or things that would take up a lot of time) the one thing that I've found with doing that is that (depending on your family's preferences and dietary needs) you need a lot of small bags of things like wheat bran, sunflower seeds, nuts and such. I'm also trying to bake with only powdered milk aside from sauces (they just don't taste the same). We normally go through 4 gallons of milk a week and that's really not that much if you consider that 1/2 a gallon lasts us a day so that's only 8 cups of milk for 6 people a day plus the extra was for cooking before I went to powdered milk.
I've taken to making about 4 loaves of bread a week. That seems to be just right with a little left over as we generally use the bread to accompany soup or an occasional sandwich.
Comments
Feb. 3, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Lilyofthevalley4
Good for you! I impressed, I really need to do this... What tapes do you listen too? Charity??
Your pantry look lovely! :)
thanks for sharing with us. Have a wonderful and blessed day!
Feb. 3, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by stillearning
Hello, They're the New Testament on tape. I like charity too and we might go to that eventually but for now we're soaking up the wisdom from hearing God's word for that time. It's been a real blessing.
Love, Pam
Feb. 4, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by
Your church training photo is great!!!! Making my rounds, I have been lax in doing so as we have had illness around our house. I hope all is well!!
Kristine
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Feb. 5, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Lilyofthevalley4
I really like that idea! Ok, when you started how long did you have them sit for. I know now you are at 1.5 hours, but did you start out for that long or started with a shorter bit of time and gradually made it to 1.5 hours? Thanks and hope you don't mind the questions. :)
Feb. 5, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by stillearning
Hi, we started out doing the full 1 1/2 hrs. Why? Because that is about how long church is now and we really needed something to work to produce a peaceful time for all of us at church. They really don't seem to mind it much. :) And no I don't mind questions. I have asked you quite a few myself and I hope that was okay too? God Bless, Pam
Feb. 6, 2008 - thanks, Pam
Posted by haddickta
for your kind words about my blog! Yours looks great! I'm looking forward to reading more of it! Your dc are so cute with their church practice! I'm impressed! Also, your pantry looks like mine--organized, but I keep everything in there like you do! LOL!
Feb. 6, 2008 - Hello
Posted by melissal89
That is a great idea to train your children to sit still. Sitting still is a painful for my son, but he likes to go to "big church" with us, so he's learned to. Looks like your pantry is very organized, good job! And good job for cooking from scratch as much as possible. I try to do this as well because of food intolerances, but as we've been able to afford it I buy more already made organic and natural things to make my life easier, such as bread.
God's Blessings, Melissa
