It’s chillin outside to the extent of ground-covering sleet action all day! Amazing that just yesterday I was outside in shorts and a t-shirt, hanging my living room curtains on the line. It got to 60 degrees yesterday! I should have known those high winds were blowing in some winter weather!
I always get in a little [...]
Archive for November, 2006
Comfort food. When I’m sick, I want my mom’s chicken stew with dumplings. Or my mother-in-law’s chicken and rice casserole. What does it for you?
It’s pouring outside, temps in the thirties, and my family is sick. We’ve all got one form or another of the common cold. The hydrogen peroxide remedy is having to work [...]
Sweet Potatoes, Bananas and Honey, oh my!
Published by November 25th, 2006 in Cooking and Food. 3 CommentsI’m convinced that someone like me must have invented the following recipe. Someone not very fond of the traditional sweet potato-marshmallow-smothered hot dish. And that’s putting it nicely.
But when my mom brought this amazing dish to a mutual friend’s birthday potluck, I began to change my tune. I made it for our big Thanksgiving meal, [...]
Dr. Phil’s Take on Homeschoolers
Published by November 24th, 2006 in Home Schooling and In The News. 14 CommentsHa. Thanks to Gina, I’m onto him. Dr. Phil, that is.
For those of you that wonder what the big deal is, go read “The Homeschool Scuttle”…or save yourself an hour and read the highlights of the article here.
Dr. Phil is airing today, November 24, a taping titled: “The Great School Debate”. In a nutshell, he’s [...]
Thanksgiving Tradition
Published by November 23rd, 2006 in Cooking and Food and Family Ties. 7 CommentsAs I made my desserts in prep for today’s feast at my big sister’s house, I thought about all the times loving hands had prepared these same recipes.
Aunt Lilly’s pie crust has probably been around half a century at least…will my daughters and grand-daughters be making it fifty years from now? Fun thoughts like the [...]
Thanksgiving Lore
Published by November 22nd, 2006 in Christianity, Family Ties and Home Schooling. 5 CommentsMy favorite Thanksgiving story is the one about Squanto and God’s sovereign plan for his life.
It’s proof that if you rely only on public school textbooks, you’ll miss many fascinating truths about history. My friend and I were just discussing this the other day. History isn’t sacred anymore. Textbook writers are too “politically correct”.
Anyway.
A couple years ago, [...]
Weekend Kindness: Love List to Hubby
Published by November 20th, 2006 in Marriage and Weekend Kindness. 7 CommentsThis past weekend’s mission was:
Send a love letter listing the reasons “Why I love you so much.”
So I wrote a love letter to my husband…he’s the best, and I’m so glad God put us together! In deference to his private nature, I decided I shouldn’t post it here…so I removed my original list.
Have a Weekend [...]
What better title for a “real life” update than “Airing Quilts”? Though, in reality, I am airing the bedding (yes, real quilts) out on the clothesline…it’s a beautiful day for mid-November. Now that you’re imagining the peaceful, Amish-like scenery of many quilts strung out on a line…
The past two weeks have been a flurry of [...]
For anyone–homeschoolers especially–the Internet is a massive library. Its bookshelves, endless and full—not only with books, but with magazines and research papers. And it’s a library teeming with experts anticipating your every need.
Thanks to the Internet, children around the world can go to school, from the comfort of home. And in a classroom this [...]
A Christmas Project For You
Published by November 15th, 2006 in Christianity, Culture, Family Ties and In The News. 3 CommentsEarlier this month, I posted at the Weekend Kindness site: Kindness to Kids. In it I shared several ideas on a way to reach out this Christmas. Whether you take on this project as an individual, as a family, a 4H community service project, or as a church, I think it has the capacity to bless many. [...]
