Posted in Family, Homeschooling on Sunday, 30 September 2007 | 2 Comments »
I bought a 9-volt battery on our way home from church today, thinking we could try this experiment from La Paz Home Learning. (She’s designed a unit study based on the Harry Potter books, for those of you who hadn’t heard. We aren’t doing the study, but I thought this was a neat thing to [...]
Posted in Country Life on Friday, 28 September 2007 | 4 Comments »
For years now I’ve had this urge to open the electric box and flip the main switch. I want quiet. True and complete quiet.
No hum of the refrigerator.
No buzz from the well pump.
No whir of the air condition or ceiling fans.
No television, computers, gameboy, or steroes.
No rumble of the dryer or swish of the washing [...]
Posted in Food on Thursday, 27 September 2007 | 2 Comments »
Oh my…
I had planned on writing something clever and pithy this morning, but the lure of the sidebar led me to Confessions of a Pioneer Woman. Well, she’s cookin’ today. I have no thoughts left in my head. Being the good mother that I am, I shared the recipe (complete with pictures) with my tomato-cream-pasta [...]
Posted in Family on Wednesday, 26 September 2007 | 3 Comments »
The Scene: At home in the evening after a long, long, long, drive in the car across relatively boring landscape the day after returning from a long, long, long trip.
At the end of the day, daughter NNNNEEEEEEDS people. Chatters away about illiterate nonsense sweet nothings.
Mother wants everyone to SHUT UP have a quiet time so that [...]
Posted in Diabetes on Tuesday, 25 September 2007 | 3 Comments »
I may have to stop reading the Children with Diabetes website. It tears me up every single time I read a story about parents having to battle with schools and daycare centers to get proper care for their children with diabetes. Every. Single. Time. I want to shout out, “You have another choice!”
For most of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Tuesday, 25 September 2007 | No Comments »
I tried a couple of time in the last few days to post, but computer problems on my end and (I think) a server problem on their end led to no posts.
Posted in Homesteading on Friday, 21 September 2007 | 2 Comments »
This is Bob.
In this picture he is doing his job. Evidently, my presence was threatening so he called his hens back into the coop. Then he fluffed up his feathers and flapped his wings at me.
There is also evidence that he is doing his job in the incubator. Now I just have to hope that [...]
Posted in reduce reuse recycle on Thursday, 20 September 2007 | 1 Comment »
New category! Yes, they are in the order of MY choosing (this is MY blog, after all!) because I believe we should start with the left and work to the right.
The first big REDUCE change we made as a family was to buy the generic cereal brands that come in a plastic bag. They taste [...]
Posted in Family on Wednesday, 19 September 2007 | 7 Comments »
Who needs an American Girl doll or Bitty Baby when you have Jazzmine? (Uh… NO I did not choose the spelling of her name!)
Posted in Random Thoughts on Monday, 17 September 2007 | 2 Comments »
What color crayon are you?
You Are a Blue Crayon
Your world is colored in calm, understated, deep colors.
You are a loyal person, and the truest friend anyone could hope to find.
On the inside, you tend to be emotional and even a bit moody.
However, you know that people depend on you. So you put on a strong [...]
Posted in Food, Random Thoughts on Sunday, 16 September 2007 | No Comments »
Did you see that line item on my grocery list in the menu planner picture?
What is up with these people down here! Hot chocolate has been on that list for weeks. The grocery stores do not stock large containers of hot chocolate in August. As if a “little” *cough* heat should slow down one’s chocolate [...]
Posted in Hidden Art on Sunday, 16 September 2007 | 3 Comments »
I love sunflowers. There are sunflowers on my cookie jar, my candle holder, the topper for my jar candle, on the walls in my kitchen, and on my refrigerator. I have a sunflower three-slot serving dish I use for our vegie snacks on school days. I also adorn nearly everything I print out for myself with [...]
Posted in Food on Sunday, 16 September 2007 | 6 Comments »
I’m one of those annoying people who actually sits down and plans my menus every week. Given my less-than-fully-functioning brain these days, I have resorted to checking out all the “What’s for Dinner?” threads on Sonlight to fill in the little blocks on my menu planner.
Yesterday I stumbled across this absolutely sinful, divine-sounding recipe posted [...]
Posted in Family on Friday, 14 September 2007 | 2 Comments »
Princess and Rooster had their FIRST basketball practice of the season. We also had our FIRST injury of the season! Whoo-hoo! (Thank you, Lord, for Blue Cross and Tricare….)
Injuries at any point in the season are nothing new. What has us all scratching our heads is that ROOSTER is the injured party. You know, the [...]
Posted in Conservation, Country Life, Hidden Art on Wednesday, 12 September 2007 | 1 Comment »
In the summer, God colors our world with a vast array of colors in the trees, shrubs, and flowers. There’s no need to miss out on that color in the winter!
I am preparing now for my winter color. Scarlet cardinals against the white snow. Blue Jays. Eastern Towhees. Goldfinches, house finches, and purple finches in [...]
