Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 21st, 2008
Tuesdays lately are a mad dash for us – mornings are coffee out with ladies from church or homeschool group for art-day. Then, a frantic dash home for lunch, homeschool, the usual housework, and a rush to bake something for our book study at a friend’s house in the evening. After that, it’s a quick dinner, read the chapter for tonight’s [...]
Posted in Changing Seasons, Crafting, Learning on Oct 20th, 2008
Today’s craft was quick and straightforward, but Little Hen really enjoyed it. The inspiration came from a colle project in the book below. (Don’t you love old craft books from the thrift store?)
Materials: various pages from the October issues of Sunset and Mother Earth News, construction paper, scissors, glue stick.
The goal of the project was [...]
Posted in Knitting on Oct 19th, 2008
Between planting tulips and hyacinths, going to see the ballet with homeschool group, and general busy-ness this week, I managed to knit up some little gifts for a dear college friend who is going to be having a baby girl in a few months.
The tied booties are my own pattern, but the bear is from this book. [...]
Posted in Changing Seasons, From my kitchen on Oct 18th, 2008
The cold nights here have finally done-in my tomatoes. The other day, I spent the afternoon making two batches of green tomato pickles while the girls played under the back stoop in the drizzle (they fled the house as soon as the smell of boiling vinegar began to fill the kitchen!)
Larksong’s Lemon Rosemary Green Tomato [...]
Posted in Learning, Mamas Who Inspire, Mothering tool kit on Oct 17th, 2008
First – Ninny Noodle Noo is having a giveaway for 3 Ostheimer chickens. Check it out here!!
About a year ago, I read on a gentle Christian mothering blog (can’t remember whose), about a wonderful parenting tool. She and her daughter learned the verse:
Galatians 5:22-23 (English Standard Version)
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, [...]
Posted in Learning on Oct 16th, 2008
I was doing dishes in the kitchen, when Little Hen grabbed this book of the library shelf, thumbed through the pages, and began to draw one that spoke to her.
What a great Pileated Woodpecker!
I used the opportunity to talk about who John James Audubon was (he’s one of my favorite people from history – Tum [...]
Posted in Crafting on Oct 14th, 2008
The girls’ interest in all things “fairy” as of late has sparked an ongoing exploration of toadstools (afterall, they do make up fairy rings!). We’ve discussed various types of fungi, their physiology, their purpose as decomposers, etc. It’s been a really fun topic!
Firecracker’s birthday is coming up on Halloween (Reformation Day), and I wanted to make [...]
Posted in From my kitchen on Oct 12th, 2008
Earlier this week, I got around to making my Caramel Spice Pear Butter with some of the pears from our Hood River trip. I’ve been fiddling with the recipe for years, and think i finally got it perfect this year – the right balance of homemade caramel, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and allspice. One batch uses [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 11th, 2008
I spent the day sick in bed, snuggled up with Tum-Tum, but Hubby and the girls went out to rake leaves and pine needles in the autumn sunshine, and then buy pumpkins for pumpkin butter and more fall baking later this week.
DawnatHome and SouleMama had autumn poetry on their minds the past few days, and so [...]
Posted in Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on Oct 10th, 2008
Space is limited at our little house, so we have quite a small garden right now. I’m glad the heat wave a while back killed the potatoes, because now I have some place to plant the garlic! I know I won’t be able to enjoy them until at least next July, but I love the [...]