. . .Two, Two, Two! Elli is 2 ! Elli's birth name means, "My God has answered" and her name is a daily reminder to me that He hears my prayers. My pregnancy and Elli's birth were special because they were a time of growing in faith as I tru…

For our Hebrew lesson this week, we worked on the letters aleph (no sound), bet/vet (b/v), gimmel (g), dalet (d), hey (h), vav (v), zayin (z), chet (ch as in ba ch ) and tet (t) and the sounds they make. We also learned two new vowel points /ay/ and /e/ as…

Ever since reading The Toothpaste Millionaire with the boys, I have wanted to make toothpaste! The story is about a 12 year old boy named Rufus, who decides to make his own toothpaste after seeing how much it costs for a tube of the stuff. After all, how ha…

For Lifeskills, we made yogurt, kefir and kefir cheese. To make the yogurt, Nathan is adding 1 cup of Mountain High Yogurt (a yogurt with live and active cultures) to 2 1/2 cups of milk in a quart jar. The jar is then placed in a warm oven (turned on to 170 d…