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February 2008

"Food Network" for the Homeschooler

Our 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 his [...]

Four things

I saw this meme over at Tricia Goyer's blog, so I thought I'd do one of my own.
(Tricia Goyer is a Christian author I found through Angela Hunt's blog. Angela is one of my favorite authors so any author she likes, I'm sure I'll like as well. I haven't read any of Tricia's historical fiction [...]

Chicken pot pie the easy way!

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 [...]

Frugal Living: The Art of Borrowing

The Happy Housewife (a great blog I just discovered last week) has an inspiring post about frugal living, specifically "The Art of Borrowing." Check it out!

It came from the depths of the dryer

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!
I waited [...]

Latin verb conjugations chart

Being a very visual person, I made up a color-coded chart for our Latina Christian I curriculum that covers the verb conjugations we're studying this year. You can download a PDF for your own use.

Cooking up a tradition

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 all [...]

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