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Sunday, July 07, 2002

I volunteered to write an article about the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for the St. Joan of Arc Church website.  The Catechesis of the Good Shephard is a program that uses the educational philosophy of Maria Montessori to give children access to the stories from the scriptures.  The kids work with statues of lost sheep and shepherds, the nativity, pearls, mustard seeds and yeast, employing the child's senses of smell, touch, taste, hearing and sight.  Kate is taking the training at the Basillica to become an instructor in the program.  The class brings up the difference between the two churches.  St. Joans is very light on attention to the ritual and mysticism surrounding the host.  The Basillica is heavy on ritual with accompanying smoke and holy water and choir music.  Different people are attracted to the two churches.  Hard to believe they are both in the same denomination.  My first step is to watch a video about Maria Montessori and find out exactly what it means when the word "Montessori" is on the door of a daycare center in a strip mall in Richfield.
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We camped at Afton State Park over the fourth and fifth.  Afton has walk-in sites and we had to hump our stuff and kids about 1.5 miles.  We strapped coolers, tents, stoves and sleeping bags on to our jogging strollers and pushed them up a steep hill to the top of the river bluff.  The campsites are mowed patches in the prairie connected by walkways of grass.  There was a breeze and the bugs mostly left us alone.   The prairie is amazingly beautiful and has a view of the Wisconsin countryside. 

We could let the kids roam free without too many worries as the prairie is pretty much child safe.  At one point, though, one-year-old Frankie came out of the tall grass with a goose egg growing out of his forehead.  It was about 1/4 the size of his head and topped with a little bite.  It felt as hard as his skull.  He had a nosebleed at the same time.  I freaked out and called the Health Partners Nurse Line: "There is a replica of Christina Ricci's left breast growing out of my son's forehead.  What should I do?"  Apparently, this is a common reaction to an insect bite and he soon reverted to human form.  Each of the four children also had to run into the campsite and bonk their heads against the iron fire grate.

Nancy and Steve made apple turnovers in the fire with their special long handled apple turnover device.  Apparently these devices are hard to come by these days.  The one they used was several generations old.  The sliced bread with canned apple pie filling makes a great treat.  Rebecca and Paul, bless their gourmet coffee loving souls, brought a French press coffee maker. 


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