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From the monthly archives:

June 2009

June 25, 2009

Free Recorder Fingering Chart

My six-year-old daughter has been asking to learn to play the recorder this week, so we pulled out my husband's old recorder, dusted it off, and let her practice on it. But when I checked online to find a good fingering chart to print off for her, I only found ones that were either interactive [...]

June 24, 2009

Switching to an Almost-Year-Round Homeschool Calendar

As most homeschoolers do, when we first began homeschooling we adopted a typical public-school calendar, including a two-week Christmas break, a one-week spring break, and a three-month summer break.
We kept this public-school calendar for our first three years. But homeschooling during December always ended up being such a chore with our busy schedule, and it [...]

June 22, 2009

Purging my Perpetually-Messy Pantry

As most pantries do, mine gets cluttered very quickly. Mine was so messy that after bringing home some groceries this afternoon I realized I couldn't put them away due to lack of room. Not that there was too much food in the pantry; it was just so unorganized there wasn't enough shelf space to put [...]

June 21, 2009

Menu Plan Monday: Week of June 22

I'm going to make a concerted effort this week to make breakfasts and dinners. Lunches will be Yo-Yo since that's what my kids seem to prefer anyway and since everyone always seems to be hungry for lunch at different times. Here's my plan for this upcoming week. Some of the dinners were on last week's [...]

June 21, 2009

The Dinner Challenge: Summary and Recipe Link-up

I didn't really meet the Dinner Challenge very well this week. I ended up making only four of the seven planned meals. But all is not lost since I plan to make the missed meals this upcoming week.
Here's a review of this week's dinners.
Monday: Day one was a bust. The crockpot barbecue chicken wasn't awful [...]

June 18, 2009

Finer Things Friday: Sew Much Fun

Jerah has had the chance to attend sewing camp last summer and then a 4-hr sewing camp this last weekend. Joely has been watching Jerah learn to sew and make all sorts of things (from t-shirts to duffle bags), and she's wanted to do it too.
So this week, when the older two kids were at [...]

June 18, 2009

The Dinner Challenge: Day Three and Four

On Day Three I didn't cook any dinner since we had so much leftover Beef and Tomato Bake from Day Two's dinner. And then today's dinner was rather…shall we say…interesting?
You see I was out of rice for the Chicken Fried Rice recipe, so I had Jeff pick some up at the grocery store. Unfortunately he [...]

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