Q: Kathy, I have a meal question for you…do you have issues with any of your children not liking what you cook for dinner? If so, how do you handle it? Do you try and remember and make meals everyone likes? Or they just have to eat if they’re hungry, and if not they go hungry? or what do you do? A: I was thinking recently that probably one reason I don’t cook much anymore is that I get so tir

Several cheap, healthy veggies start with “C”, and 3 of the 4 are so easy to cut into sticks and dip in ranch dressing:carrots celery cucumbers cabbageOther cheap healthy foods:raw spinach  (Buy it in a bag, and your salad is almost made!) oatmeal apples oranges bananas sometimes pears potatoes eggs zucchini dried beans (cooked of course!) easy homemade oil and vinegar dressingRaw foods are sup

Homeschooling:I try to spend one-on-one time with our youngest child before I start the more intense schooling with the others so she sees that she is important to me.  Then she can face the day secure and ready to obey and be separated from me a little.   Then I move up the ladder to the first-grader and spend time with him.  It is easy to teach a 3 or 4-year-old beginning reading with phonics flashcards, so