I love to try new recipes, but there’s something about holidays that calls me back to our traditional favorites. There are some recipes that I only make for special occasions, and I think that makes them that much more special. One of my traditional Thanksgiving favorites is a pumpkin roll. I got this recipe from…
Here’s my recipe for sweet potato casserole. It’s from my aunt, but I think it’s a fairly common recipe. Ingredients Casserole 5 or 6 large sweet potatoes (2- 29 oz cans) 2 eggs 1 cup sugar 1 tsp. vanilla 1 stick or butter or margarine -softened (can use 3/4 stick) 1 tsp. salt 1 ts.p cinnamon…
We have for the last several years played host for Thanksgiving dinner for my husband’s family. It’s not a huge group of people (it usually just adds 5 people to our family), so it’s not that difficult. But it’s still a LOT more side dishes than I usually make for a typical meal. I started…
When am I ever going to need this? Why do I have to learn this? Math is so boring. If you’ve ever heard any of the above in your home, I have a suggestion for you. It’s called Make It Real Learning. I reviewed one of the modules: Sets, Probability, and Statistics from Volume I…
Do you long for the good ole days when children played outside with their friends, went fishing, and had great adventures? I know that a lot has changed in the few, short, ahem, years since I was a child. No, I didn’t grow up in the country, but my friends and I did ride our…
My son William had a lot of trouble learning to read. I read all the advice that said not to worry about it. “It will come.” “Some kids are just late readers.” It was helpful advice when he was 6. It was a little less helpful at 7. After he was 8 and even 9,…
Six years ago this morning I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Nine months earlier, I found out I was pregnant from the surgeon who had removed my gall bladder the week before. He was very concerned (near panicked) when he called me to tell me the news. The day before, at my post-op…
This summer we went on the most amazing vacation to Arizona. In the spring, as we were planning our trip, we were floundering a bit in our history studies. My husband suggested I try a unit study on Native Americans. I thought that was a great idea so I went straight to work on putting…
Much research has shown that early childhood is an ideal time to begin learning a foreign language. Because of this, I’ve always tried to expose my children to Spanish at a young age. I chose Spanish mainly because it’s the easiest foreign language to find resources for children. Ideally, I would teach them Spanish by…
I’ve always thought alphabet memes were fun, so when I found out that Marcy at Ben and Me was starting over on hers, I marked my calendar. And I still missed the A week, because… Read the title. Busyness. Whoa. We started back to school, and I’m working part time, and it’s cross country season…