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From the monthly archives:

April 2008

April 30, 2008

Thirteen Meals I'm Planning for May

As part of our "3 Moms, 3 Kitchens, 31 Days" adventure, I've planned out 13 meals which I plan to make during May. So here's what's on our dinner menu—in no particular order:

Chicken/Rice/Veggie casserole
Chicken spaghetti (I haven't found a recipe for the spaghetti yet. Anyone have a great recipe they'd like to share?), peas and [...]

April 30, 2008

3 Moms, 3 Kitchens, 31 Days

I'm fairly new to the blogging world, having begun this blog only 6 months ago, but in that time I've thoroughly enjoyed getting to peek into other people's homes to see how they live their lives. I'm learning something new every day, whether it be a great recipe, a frugal tip, a better way to [...]

April 29, 2008

WFMW: My Recipe Binder

I own dozens of cookbooks.
But they're rarely used.
It's just so inconvenient to have to search through all of them every time I want to find a recipe (and yes, I realize that's a really lame excuse).
But now that I've been working on planning meals and baking from scratch, I've started collecting all my recipes in [...]

April 29, 2008

Our Firearms Field Trip

We recently spent several weeks studying firearms. Not shooting them, just understanding them.
The study of guns is not your typical course of study for public schoolers or home schoolers, but I felt like it would be a worthwhile study. The physics of firearms is absolutely fascinating, and the development of firearms has had an incredible [...]

April 29, 2008

Cleaning Up the Kitchen

In May (which I just realized starts in only two days!) I'm going to be embarking on my first month of a tight food budget—$450 for a hungry family of 5—so I decided I'd better clean the kitchen and get it ready for some serious use.
Strangely, I was pretty excited about doing the dishes today, [...]

April 29, 2008

A Providential Email

I picked up an old edition of Saxon 76 several months ago for next to nothing, thinking that I could use it with Jaden. Unfortunately, although I posted a "want to buy" request on our local homeschool forum, and searched the internet for used copies, I couldn't find the corresponding answer key anywhere without having [...]

April 27, 2008

A Lost Addiction?

My husband has been wondering what all the talk about the TV series Lost has been about. Could the show really be that interesting?
So he decided to watch it for himself to see what all the hub-bub is about. He's watched probably half a dozen episodes online in the past couple days, and he's even [...]