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From the monthly archives:

May 2008

Day 30 & 31: Is this the end?

Yesterday (Friday) we made pizza as planned—and it turned out great! I absolutely love the crust recipe I've been using.

But today, Saturday, is the end of the month, and this morning my cupboards were so bare that Joely came up to me and asked, "Can I have cereal?" and I said, "Sorry, honey, we're out [...]

Days 28 & 29: The Joy Of Giving Our Food Away! (3 Moms)

The last two days have been a little different. We've been yo-yoing the entire time, mostly with sandwiches and pasta. But Jerah did make herself some homemade macaroni and cheese yesterday, which reliable sources informed me turned out very well.
Wednesday morning I needed to make a snack to take to our last homeschool group meeting [...]

Day 26 & 27: Running Low (3 Moms)

I made sweet corn bread and baked beans for dinner Monday (and forgot to take pictures). I'd never used the corn bread recipe before, and I was a little…no, a lot surprised at the amount of sugar in the recipe, but I was quite hungry by the time I made dinner, so I just made [...]

My Nine-Year-Old Chef

Jerah has always loved cooking, and since I've been doing it so much this month with our "3 Moms, 3 Kitchens, 31 Days" adventure, she decided she'd join in on the fun.
So yesterday while I was teaching piano lessons, unbeknownst to me, she found a children's cookbook we own that she'd looked through before, chose [...]

WFMF: Painless Early Math Lessons for Kids

We've homeschooled now for three years, and I have come to the point where I try to avoid worksheets and workbooks as much as possible, especially when the kids are younger. That doesn't mean, of course, that I don't use worksheets or workbooks at all, because I definitely do. It's just that some concepts are [...]

Communism for Kids

We've been reading through volume 4 of Story of the World—actually reading two to three chapters a day; we're fast-tracking it through the end of this volume because we're going to be starting TruthQuest history for the next school year. I have absolutely loved SOTW, and so have the kids; we have all learned so [...]

Menu Plan Monday (and a "3 Moms" summary of the weekend…)

Our weekend was a hodge-podge of meals. The kids spent the night at a friend's house, so our planned Friday meal of oven-baked chicken strips and potato fries was bumped to Saturday night. The rest of the time we've just been Yo-Yoing.
I've definitely realized that I need to plan for our non-meals a lot better…well, [...]

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