Posted in Domestic Bliss, Daycare and Preschool, Happy and Healthy Childhoods, Parenting on Oct 31st, 2007 2 Comments »
I am getting a huge stack of toy catalogs in the mail. It’s that time of year, of course.
As we’ve been doing daycare for a year now, we’ve acquired A LOT of toys, and I’ve also gone through a few times and made drastic reductions. I feel like I’m starting to get a grip on […]
Posted in Earth Scouts on Oct 30th, 2007 3 Comments »
My brother just had his Eagle Court, to receive an celebrate his Eagle Scout from the Boyscouts. It was a lovely event, and very important to him.
Many people have problems with the Boyscouts, and I can understand their reasons. I don’t plan on doing Boy or Girl […]
Posted in Domestic Bliss on Oct 25th, 2007 4 Comments »
With kids in the house, everything seems to get food, fingerprints, paint, milk, vomit, or something else on it. My furniture is all stained in some way, and I am very thankful that I have hardwood floors rather than carpet that would also be stained. I would love to get rid of my sofa, as […]
Posted in Holidays on Oct 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Two years ago, I made a felt stocking for Carbon. The goal was to make one a year until I had them for the whole family. I’m using kits, but they still take a long time to finish with all these little sequins sewn on by hand, etc. Last year I started one for my […]
Posted in Homeschooling and Education on Oct 24th, 2007 2 Comments »
Carbon’s been slowly mastering his number sequence. Lots of games, connect-the-dot, fill-in-the-blank, sequence lines, etc. The learning has been visible, but slow.
Today we had one of those huge leaps on conceptual thinking that are so cool to see. He just announced:
“Mommy, 2 + 2 is 4.”
I was thrilled that he was even thinking about addition, […]
Posted in gluten-free on Oct 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
DH and SIL said yesterday that “these are the best cookies ever”. So I have to share the recipe, obviously.
Pumpkin Whoopee Cookies
The Cookie:
1/2 cup all-purpose flour and 3/4 cup cake flour
(Gluten free: 1 cup gluten-free mix, 1/2 cup tapioca flour, 1 tsp xanthan gum)
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 stick butter at room […]
Posted in My own homeschooled life, J.'s Homeschooling, Homeschooling and Education on Oct 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »
Ah, to be organized. I am feeling pretty good about our school organization right now. I’ve created systems that seem to work very well for Carbon, and I think the system for my sister is pretty good even if she is having trouble keeping up. What she needs right now is a system for getting […]
Posted in Domestic Bliss on Oct 19th, 2007 3 Comments »
I’m still working on my 1000 Cookies in 2007 to Benefit Women with Fistula project. Sadly, I haven’t made much progress since my last post about it. I need to do a couple 100 cookies weeks, to push the numbers up. I’m going to try and make 2 batches of cookies today, since I’m going […]
Posted in Earth Scouts on Oct 17th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m pretty happy with the way Carbon’s tree has turned out - not quite what I had in MY head, but this is supposed to be his project after all. He had a lot of fun making it, and it does express his view of what a habitat is. Really, not bad for a 4 year […]
Posted in Earth Scouts on Oct 16th, 2007 3 Comments »
For every Earth Scout badge, there are three steps: 1)Inspire 2) Create 3) Act
I think of these as entries in their badge books:
1) What did I learn?
2) What did I make?
3) What did I do?
For our current badge, we did a group activity with yarn that created a food web in our circle of […]
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