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To: Alex Murphy

Looks like it. I was getting "Catholic Dossier" at the time. It went away at some point, I think, or I missed the "This is Really Your TOTALLY LAST RENEWAL NOTICE!"

I've never really felt monastic about homeschooling (fwiw). It's just me and my kids and a lot of books, and everybody wants to use the computer at the same time, and nobody wants to clean the bathroom except me, and no, you can't have macaroni and cheese at every meal.

But somehow they all do fine on the standardized tests, and people who don't see the mess they make in the bathroom think they're wonderful children!


9 posted on 03/18/2007 6:46:51 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I don't know you, but I love who you seem to be.")
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To: Tax-chick
It's just me and my kids and a lot of books, and everybody wants to use the computer at the same time, and nobody wants to clean the bathroom except me, and no, you can't have macaroni and cheese at every meal.

Yeah well, I imagine in the monasteries everybody wanted to sit in the cloisters and read and write, but had to spend a lot of time washing the flagstones and hoeing in the fields, and you'd get in trouble just for talking.

In fact, if I'm not mistaken, there's something in the Rule of Benedict that if you didn't do physical labor you didn't get any meat or wine.

14 posted on 03/20/2007 7:11:49 AM PDT by ichabod1 ("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
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