Rejoicing in hope…Romans 12:12
We love having a popcorn and movie night! Below, I’m sharing our two favorite popcorn recipes. And while I’m at it, if you’ve never turned your children loose with their own bowl of buttered popcorn and your spice cupboard, then you’re really bypassing the whole cornfield!
Microwave Cinnamon Popcorn
4 quarts (16 cups) air-popped popcorn (3/4 cup unpopped) or 3 bags [...]
This recipe is the brain child of my friend. The originial recipe came from a Taste of Home magazine and was for Strawberry Lemonade. Just substitute strawberries for the peaches if you’d like. Strawberry Lemonade makes beautiful Christmas gifts…especially if you give the jars dressy labels…either way, this concentrate mixed with lemon-lime soda makes for [...]
Writers everywhere agree that real life produces the best fodder to nourish our creativity.
The day I wrote about my housekeeping skills, I decided it was time to clean off that countertop (can’t find the dryer now, but that’s beside the point), mop, and sic my kids on their bedroom. I wanted to dust, honest, but [...]
I’ve already posted in the past that I’m against bikinis on toddlers (or anyone else for that matter). Why put them in something for ease and cuteness only to take it away in a couple years when it “becomes immodest”?
A friend of mine recently sent me a link to some modest swimwear she is sewing [...]
The homemaker in me really comes to life with the arrival of fall. The pantry must include extras of the following essentials: cinnamon, brown sugar, ww/white/bread flours, instant vanilla pudding, quick oats, choc. chips… My butter and cream cheese supply morphs into overstock, because to run out is unthinkable! You see, the arrival of fall [...]
After brushing teeth together this morning, my toddler put the hand towel in the sink and got it thoroughly wet.
“Hey! Don’t do that!” I grabbed the towel and shut the water off.
“Kean sink, mommy, keen sink!” she protested, continuing to swab at the basin with the towel.
She usually brushes teeth at the same time as [...]
I have here before me a squarish red book titled, Games for Writing by Peggy Kaye. I’m so excited about the games in this book that I just had to plug it.
Here’s a novel idea. Writing is about writing, not spelling. (I’ll admit, I blinked when I read that.)
You all know by now my mantra: [...]
It took me and my six year old an hour just to dictate/write ten spelling words, review phonagram cards/spelling rule cards, and to read two “early readers” together. We may have overdone it as I had to bring her down from the verge of tears twice. Her attention tends to wander, she thinks by guessing she’ll [...]
Gina asked a while back if I’d give more details on how to play the floor game.
The floor game is a board game played all over the house, or even outdoors. You and your kids design the game, the board and your kids are the playing pieces.
Using poster board for durability, make “spaces” to be hopped [...]
There are many reasons we chose this path, the most important that my husband and I knew without a doubt that it was God’s will for our family.
My biggest fear when homeschooling, is not that I’ll fail to pass on the 3R’s or that my children will be societal empty-heads. My fear is that I’ll fail [...]
