Changes in our homeschooling methods…

Some of you may have been following my saga about homeschooling. Last year was semi-disastrous, ending with one frustrated Momma, and 3 kids bored out of their minds…(quite literally! LOL). So we began this school year, and I was full of hopes and dreams about the HOW Teaching  Approach and SOS math, and our new [...]

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Of Halloween…and other holidays

This time of year always brings stress to me. Today I have been so crabby, so I will blame it on Halloween. For the past couple of years, we have not “celebrated” it, all because of my reservations on the holiday. But every time it comes around, I get questions from the older 3 children, [...]

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Fall around here…

Here are some pics of our fall First a couple of around the house, and last some of the ones from the pumpkin patch on Saturday.

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Pumpkin Bread Pudding

This recipe is just an adapted recipe from The Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book. I save up my bread heels (white and wheat) in the freezer for recipes like this 8 cups dried bread cubes 4 eggs, slightly beaten 4 cups of milk 1 can pumpkin 1 stick of butter, melted 1 cup [...]

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Crockpot recipes!!!!!!!!!!

Crockpot recipes Hillbilly Housewife. There are over 65 recipes on the above website! I absolutely love the other recipes on the site too I am not sure why I didn’t think to start utilizing my crockpot more…I am so sick of eating out, (not like we really should be with the lack of funds!). What [...]

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October 20, 2009

All is well here! YAY! No one got sick after James and that is GREAT news! *doing happy dance* anyway… I am actually up early today, so I have a little bit of time to blog in peace before the children arise. I finally finished Jesus for President, and I do believe the info contained [...]

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Sometimes I feel frustrated…There are so many things I want to blog about, but I know not all the things would be acceptable. Sometimes I wonder if I should care, but when it deals with family and some of the things I struggled with, I feel it could help others who feel alone. But then [...]

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October 15, 2009

So far so good! James is recovering well from the flu, just a little cough! And no one else has shown symptoms, Thanks be to God! A few posts ago, I mentioned my interest in learning more about nonresistance. Thanks to the commenter who recommended The Irresistible Revolution and Jesus For President by Shane Claiborne [...]

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Whats up with wordpress?!

I come in to check the blogs I usually read, and they are not listed in the Readomattic, blog surfer or subscriptions! grrr. I don’t like that when stuff like this happens. Now to track down those blogs…. update 10-14-09 apparently they were just working on some stuff, because not long after I posted this, [...]

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October 9, 2009

So the flu has hit our house as you might have guessed from my last post. Our oldest son, age 11, has tested positive for Flu type A, and it is most likely H1N1, as that is what’s been going around in this area, especially church. We have him as quarantined as possible with the [...]

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