Peanut Butter $2.00/dozen with nuts $2.50/dozen

Chocolate Chip $2.00/dozen with nuts $2.50/dozen

Oatmeal Raisin $2.00/dozen with nuts $2.50/dozen

Cinnamon Spice Cookies $2.00

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip $2.00/dozen

Amish Sugar Cut-Outs $3.00/dozen w/icing glaze

Homemade Granola $2.50/quart $5.00/gallon

Breakfast Crescents 3/$1.00

Homemade Jellies $2.50/pint

White or Honey Wheat Loaf Bread $3.00/loaf

Mini Loaves, White or Honey Wheat only $1.50 each

Pumpkin Bread, Applesauce Bread, Banana Bread $3.00/loaf

Everything will be made with fresh ground flour -- if not, we'll note that -- and the honey we use as sweetener is local.  The Breakfast Crescents are quicka nd easy -- the Market opens early, so we thought it might be a good thing to have along.

Do I need to print a basic kind of label for anything, do you think?  A listing of ingredients, at least...we thought about just listing that on the flyer and bagging the goodies up in a simply manner. 

Either way, that's the game plan at this stage.  Something else we have talked about is using the church Sunday School room for a school room.  I know, I know...homeschooling means home.  The children are a bit distracted here...phone calls, just plain ol' nice weather outside, etc.  We talked to Bro Bud about using the room at church....remember, our church is smaller than small....and he will run the thought past the Trustee Board, but he doesn't see a problem.  My line of thought here is this:  we do morning chores and head up the 2 miles to church early in the morning, 8 am at the latest.  We pack a basket of homeschool needs and a water jug (I don't want to be a burden to the small church's resources, such as water and electricity...we will use th lights in that room, but not the a/c).  Schooling is done without distractions around us, or the urge to get up to do something that truly could wait.  All in all, we should be back home aroun noonish- 1 pm.  Then the tasks of the homestead day can be accomplished, with plenty of time for dinner preps as well.

Our little church is just that...little.  There are under 40 members on 'the roll' and most of them home-bound and elderly, so the attendance is typically 25-30, including ourselves.  It was only in the last 5-7 years that the church got electricity and a couple of a/c units, as well as a wall gas heater.  Plumbing isn't much older.  This is a rural church with folks who have lived lives of frugality that would be a test to most of us.  They truly have a make do or do without frame of mind.  I don't want to create a burden, so we offered to sort of 'rent' the room for schooling...a fee to cover whatever increase in electricity or water they might see.  That was met with rather deep offense, though.  We are family and the church is there for the community, plain and simple.  If it doesn't contradict something in The Word of God, then Bro Bud says they have no reason to say no.....and homeschooling lines up with The Word.

We probalby won't do this for any long term, but I do want to see if it will help us get back on the right track.  Honestly, it's totally MY fault that we have shifted into a sloppy school schedule around here, and this is really more a band-aid than a true repair.  What we need is a repair to character training and responsibility, diligence and so forth.  But, I've allowed us to slip pretty far onto the wrong side of distractions, so we need to get rid of them and go with stripped down and bland for a bit to re-focus ourselves I think.  I can't strip down the house without a rebellion of large proportions, so this is the next idea in line.

Emily has her last visit to LeBonheur next week -- Friday, July 25th.  I'm glad to see an end to this 2-year-long trek, but we'll miss all the wonderful nurses and doctors we've met during our time there.  Ahhh, but the savings in gas will be wonderful!