I want to share my favorite baking substitutions because they are easy and very necessary at times. Have you ever starting making a recipe, only to discover that, after already mixing together the dry ingredients, you're missing a crucial ingredient like vegetable oil or buttermilk? That's happened to me more times than I care to […]
Archives for 2008
How to Teach Phone Skills
Teaching your children phone skills will eliminate the answer "I don't know" when you ask who called? I used to work as a telemarketer for a phone company — and I hated every single minute of it! But the experience did give me the opportunity to observe how completely awful many people’s telephone skills are. […]
Menu Plan: Week of November 17
I haven't been cooking much lately. My schedule has been such that we've done yo-yo dinners almost every night. But I'm getting really tired of that, and I think my family is too. Time to break out the good ol' crock pot and start cooking again! So here's the plan for this week. Monday: Slow-Cooker […]
My random seven…at long last
Four score and seven years ago…well, maybe more like a three and a half weeks ago…my dear friend Kate tagged me to blog seven random facts about myself. I obviously didn't take up the challenge immediately. Instead I worked on transferring my WordPress blog to my own domain. So now that that's all done, I […]
Drawing of a Self Portrait: A Before and After
What an improvement in just two months of drawing lessons when you see these self portraits. I wrote a couple months ago about the new drawing curriculum, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, that my son has been using this year and how much we have both been enjoying it. Before he actually […]
Is college a waste of time?
In asking the question is college a waste of time I am seeking to challenge my children to evaluate what their goals are toward college. Before you get offended unnecessarily, I am in no way suggesting that people who have a college education have wasted their time. I only want to share that over the […]
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