This week is cleaning theme week at Works for Me Wednesday. I have already made a few Works for Me Wednesday posts with some of my cleaning tips. Here’s our Chore Chart, and just last week I posted on Dividing Cleaning Tasks. You may think that I like to clean. But I really don’t. I…
Nature Friend Magazine
My husband and I have always enjoyed spending time together outside. We’ve spent many hours hiking in the mountains. It is a love that we have tried to instill in our children from an early age. That baby backpack has been used for all 4 of our children. I also enjoy bird watching, and my…
Fall into Reading
I found the Fall into Reading challenge via No Ordinary Moments and decided that I needed a little challenge to get caught up with my reading. Currently on my night stand I have a couple of books that I started on WAY too long ago and I am going to finish those. There are also…
Day at the Fair
We took a day off from school yesterday and spent the day at the fair. We rode a lot of rides. Little one liked this one. This one not so much. I got her off before it started. (After I took a picture.) We checked on our entries and we were very proud to find……
Educational Opportunites at the Fair
We dropped off this year’s fair entries on Wednesday. It made for a very busy couple of days because, well, I’m not really good at helping my kids work towards deadlines. That and my daughter was baking two items and those HAD to be done on Wednesday morning. I never entered anything at the fair…
Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins
2-1/2 cups flour (can use half whole wheat) 2 cups sugar 1 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp ginger 1/4 tsp cloves 1/4 tsp nutmeg 2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 4 eggs 1 can pumpkin (We used 2 cups) 1 cup melted butter 12 oz chocolate chips (2 cups) Preheat over…