We are homeschooling our four eldest this year, and I am very excited to begin. I was telling a friend this week that this is the golden time of the school year, when anything is possible. Plans, goals, dreams for each child’s growth and success are laid out in great detail, and we sit hunched [...]
“Lord, we pray You would help Callie, who is black toast intolerant…” Hmmm. She had better stay away from Grandma, who tends to turn up her toaster pretty high…
Through trial and error I have worked to make it so that the tomatoes can cook down in the crockpot instead of on the stovetop. Two batches so far have had that cooked-too-long taste, because I still haven’t reached that delicate balance of cooking off the water but not burning the sauce. Last night’s tomatoes [...]
…All children were put back to bed. I had completely run out of other options to put out the many fires already started so early in the day. With the adventures of A Flat last week and A Major getting baptized last evening (yay!), I am thinking spiritual attack when the house gets this chaotic. [...]
Our little A Flat has had it rough this week. Tonight’s adventure really began months ago. She suffers from many different kinds of skin rashes, has most of her life, and I was told this might be an indication of allergies. So, I watched for the more common ones- dairy, nuts, gluten or berries- to [...]
Once upon a time, I planted some Aldi pinto beans in quart jars for the children to watch grow. I said to the children, “They might not come up.” A few days went by, and though there was some sprouting of the beans, I still maintained that they might not come up, just because of [...]
Do you ever have “one of those days”? Days for me usually will pass along at a pace, no real complaints, then, WHAM! we hit a brick wall. Today was that day, and I’m pulling mortar crumbs out of my teeth. After breakfast, we started our morning cleaning jobs, and an altercation between two siblings [...]
Green Beans- We had fun snapping these and putting most up in the freezer. Green Peppers- I tried one of my pepper varieties and was disappointed with the thin walls and bitter taste. I decided I would let most all of the rest proceed to sweet, colored status and hope for bigger and better taste [...]