Dan is bathing K, including getting the tangles out of her hair. The latter is epic.
M and Ben are washing dishes – we had pizza tonight with gf crust (from healthy bread in 5 min a day, I’m out of Xanthan gum, so I used a slurry of chia and flax seeds) with gf white sause, mozzerella, parmezan, and chicken breast.
The first farmer’s market was today, we tried lemon honey fromage blanc, and the lady from the dairy suggested that it would be nice with my strawberries. I wanted a base, ran out of time to make cake, so I attempted gf puffs, because they needed the same temperatures as the pizza. I think they need xanthan gum to rise much. With honey the desert was pleasant, but strange. Ben suggested a sugar cookie base if I try it again. GF rolled sugar cookies are a pain – perhaps the sugar cookie pizza method where you bake half a batch rolled out on parchment paper?
I’ve been inspired by K’s new picture Bible to add more stories for my Sunday School Class between Elisha and Daniel. It’s a cool challenge to get the various kings, Assyrian campaigns, straight from 2 Kings, 2 chronicles, Isaiah, and the psalms. I’m still editing out exactly what offering children to Molech meant, but I tell them if they want the whole story where to read it. Both the girls and the boys enjoy it when I pull out an atlas and show them where the battles were.
Our church owns a set of Betty Luken felts. But these stories aren’t specifically illustrated. So I make a list of “Grumpy king, serious prophet, little boy, wall, soldiers” and do my best. I only had Roman soldiers, but I told the kids to pretend they were Assyrian. Some mornings when I’m late, I have some of the kids dig in my box of poster board songs for which songs we’ll sing, and others help me look for felt people. It almost always happens that they’d rather sing “Blessed Assurance” out of the collection of old hymnals in our classroom on those weeks.