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…
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…
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…
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……
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…
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…
When I was a kid, my mother cleaned the whole house once a week. (Not that she didn’t clean up anything in between) I mean all the dusting, vacuuming, bathroom cleaning, floor mopping, EVERYTHING on ONE day. As I got older I was assigned a lot of it. It takes a lot away from a…
I discovered lapbooking several years ago. Though we do not always have a lapbook in progress, we like to make at least one or two a year to add variety to our school day. Over the years my children have completed lapbooks of their own design, as well as lapbooks constructed using mini books that…
We’ve finally started doing something in our home that I’ve wanted to try for a long time. (I was originally inspired by Molly at Counter Cultural Mom.)We’re going to work on learning one hymn per week. I’m printing out a copy of the words for the kids’ memory notebooks. (Which are getting SLOWLY put together.)…
It’s time for another Weekly Wrap Up at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers and I am struggling to think of what to share. We did start our Tapestry of Grace studies this week. The little ones and I read one book about St. Valentine and another called Brigid’s Cloak. We all began listening to an audio book…