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RSSOur local homeschool club, which I helped found just over a year ago, meets every Wednesday at our local library. We're mainly a social group, and we don't have much structure when we meet, but we did hold a very structured—and very fun—event this last Wednesday. There's a man in our church, who along with [...]
February 28, 2008
Chicken pot pie the easy way!
February 28, 2008 By 1 Comment
I teach piano lessons every afternoon until 5 or after, so it's difficult to have time to make dinner, especially on evenings when we have church or band practice. As a result, most evenings we just YO-YO [a term meaning "You're On Your Own" that we learned from our friend Michelle], but on occasion I [...]
February 26, 2008
It came from the depths of the dryer
February 26, 2008 By 7 Comments
Early this morning I began to hear strange scratching sounds in my laundry room. Coming from near the dryer. No, wait, the sounds were coming from inside the dryer! Apparently a mouse (or some other nasty, annoying, small creature) had climbed into my dryer through the dryer duct! Not happy! I was definitely not happy! [...]
February 23, 2008
Cooking up a tradition
February 23, 2008 By 4 Comments
Well, it's now been three weeks in a row that we've continued with our Saturday night kids' cook tradition. We've been using the book Cooking For Beginners by Usborne Books because it has kid-friendly directions and easy-to-follow directions—and it's been wonderful. Three weeks ago Jerah made French bread pizzas. It was a roaring success, with [...]
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