Child Training Bible Giveaway winner!!!

Stephanie Hale Eidson YOU are THEE winner!

Congrats.

I hope you are MORE diligent than myself in implementing it's use!

Continue to pray WITH me in that regard. :) PRAYER WORKS!

Should I capitalize ONE MORE THING?! hehe

Child Training Bible Review and GIVEAWAY!!!

I was not so recently given the opportunity to review the Child Training Bible. I'm a bit behind on writing up my review on this. Mostly because I feel like a failure in instituting the use of it.

So, let's move forward with what I have done with the Child Training Bible, mm kay?

If you haven't seen a single thing about them, please take the time to go to the above link and look over their product to see how it functions. As I am not reinventing the wheel here people..simpling giving my honest review and a few helpful tips that I may have ran across along the way.

OK...

My 7 year old daughter helped me put together the top taps of the bible... don't mind her unbrushed hair. She is still just as lovable. :-)

I bought the markers and post it flags at Staples, for a smidge less than $20.

I used a study bible I had bought for my personal use a few years ago. I had already highlighted some stuff in it. But God worked it out, so that those things I had highlighted that coincided with what I needed to highlight for this were previously highlighted in a lighter or same color as I needed to change it to. Sorry if that don't make sense...I can't think of how else to explain it. and I forgot to take pics. My point in saying that is, don't be afraid to use a previously highlighted or used bible it will work out. The point of this system is not to go broke trying to get it set up...or to wait around to do it because you don't wanna spend money you don't have to.

I used a separate Bible from the one I take to church. I want it to be special and set apart for this. I didn't want to spend 4 hours putting it together for it to get wrecked.

I hope to use it along with the S.O.A.P method of bible study that I learned about from Smockity Frocks.  By picking one character a week and going through Scripture, Observation, Application, and Prayer journalling with that character trait. We have done SOAP in the past and have falling short on this for months lately. :(

I didn't already have highlighters or post it flags so I purchased them. If you have them, don't buy new silly people! I thought about making my own "post it flags" with pieces of colored paper and tape. My time was worth the $10 spent on something already done for me. And in my opinion your time is too!

I took my bible, highlighters, post-it flags and Child Training Bible kit with me when I took the kids to homeschool classes. I would sit and wait for them and work on it. All together it took me about 4 hours to put this thing together.

I have used myself a few times, but I have failed to get it out and use it WITH my children. I want to...but frankly we haven't been doing ANY Bible study time at all. sigh. Pray for me? please. :)

So, one question I received was "How many times does same color highlighter get used for different topics on the same page of the Bible?" My answer is this... It depends on your bible. grin. I had it happen 2, 3 times max.

SO, do you have any questions?

I would love to answer them the best I can.

I would also love for you to enter my Giveaway to receive your very own Child Training Bible Kit!!!

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How To Hang Curd

Many cheeses require to be hanged for varying lengths of time. So gravity and time can do their work and compact the cheese and drain the whey.

Some cheeses hang for an hour or less, some as long as a day. Most of the cheese I make hang overnight or 6-12 hours. Such as Feta which will be next tutorial.

I'm sure there are as many wheys to hang curd as there are cheeses. So these are only the few that I have actually used or seen used.

I will share with you my whey as well as a few others.

I have hung it off a broom stick between two things. I can't remember what 2 things I balanced the broom stick on! So, I probably shouldn't have made mention of this method. ha! But maybe you of the more awake world will think of some way to make that work. So, I mention it.

A friend puts a yard stick on the top of her kitchen cupboards over her sink and ties the bag of curds to that to hang. I have a bulk head on my cabinets and no extra space to store stuff on top of them...booo. So the was not an option for me.

I drilled holes in the side of my cupboards over my sink to fit a piece of metal rebar that we had laying around in the yard. The piece I found was not thick enough or long enough. So it fell if the cheese was too heavy or the bar was not put just even inside the cupboards. I got sick of that really quick and went looking for a thicker and longer piece of rebar. I successfully found one.

Pictured is what my current set up is for hanging curds to drain. Hard to see but its there, really.

 

 

Here is a close up of how the rebar goes inside the cupboard slightly.

{Ignore the bag of cheap, but real powdered sugar....gasp}

 

 

 

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Cheese, SUCCESS

I waxed my first Colby cheese on 7*2*2012.

It says to age for 2-3 months.

I cracked that baby open today and my husband LOVED it!

I was not completely thrilled, I enjoyed it. It was a little stronger flavored than I anticipated. I am just not used to REAL cheese. I am used to that blue label stuff. So is he.

He is the cheese HOG in the house, so if he's happy mommas happy. :) 

That made it worth the 3 month wait.

Math Lessons

This week I was teaching my 7 year old daughter, Elaine, about dozens and half dozens. We used an egg carton to count and talk about things in dozens. Today she seen a dozen and a half egg carton we have. She started talking to me about how it could hold a dozen plus six eggs or three sixes.

So began this conversation.

Me: If you had six apples and three people, how many apples could each person have?

Elaine: (holding up her finger) One.

Me: One each?

Elaine: Yes

Me: What are you going to do with all the extra apples?

Elaine: Find other people, cause you can only eat one apple at a time.

Me: Well you can eat more than one MM at a time. So, what if we had six MM's and three people, how many can each have?

Elaine: Two, cause you can eat two MM's at a time. Even a baby could.

I wish I had recorded it, it's really MUCH cutier hearing her say it.

Random Thoughts.

School started for us 2 weeks ago, I think. You see we don't do a lot of book work. Mostly Math and reading and learning from real life experiences. So, I don't have an official start date and end date. I'm good with that.

I am seeing that my 2nd grader is retaining alot of information. I thought it was funny that half way through her 2nd grade Math book is teaching her the basic concept of how to read a recipe. She has been doing this for years now. She likes to be in the kitchen with mom.

My boys, 5th and 8th grade, are completely independent with their math.

Rotating chore charts we began using 2 and 1/2 weeks ago are still working out good. The concept is like Smockity Frocks  Paint Chip chore cards. But we use printed sheets in page protectors and washable markers to check off when done. Like this...

IF someone wants to tell me how I can upload a pdf or a working copy of my charts I will be happy to share them in such a way that you can actually read them! lol I have them in Word. Or I can email them to you, if you request them from me.


I stayed up till 3 am last night watching Barbie Diamond Castle on youtube. I am such a party animal.

Yes, I was alone. Yes, I was on a desktop. It was the first time I had noticed that youtube has full length movies on it!

Am I the only weirdo that wonders if some sicko uploads videos on there that start out as kids cartoons and turn into something totally different and inappropriate?

NO!? What?

Ok, I thought I was over thinking, again.