Posted in Building Community, Homemaking, Learning, Locally grown, Moderation and Economy, Uncategorized, Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on Mar 18th, 2010
Yesterday afternoon, with my son on my back, the girls and I potted up the first of our tomato seedlings – all 51 of them. (The one above is a “Black Krim”, a favorite of ours for salads.) Another 26 little tomato-lets (started a week later) will be potted up this weekend, time allowing. (Above: [...]
Posted in From my kitchen, Homemaking, Locally grown on Mar 16th, 2010
The girls and I made a special beef stew for my birthday yesterday. They especially enjoyed blending the spices at the beginning…and later standing by the stove, inhaling the amazing aroma of spice-dredged beef browning in butter (oh, and eating three big bowls of hot stew at dinner, too!). We don’t eat much meat, but [...]
Posted in From my kitchen, Homemaking, Learning on Mar 8th, 2010
Monday is baking day. We’re enjoying the Monday tradition of baking homemade bread. Our favorite “fancy” recipe is Challah – the dough is so kid-friendly, the results wow everybody, and nothing goes better with homemade jam. It looks like the sun is starting to come out, so I think we’ll go plant some potatoes (along [...]
Posted in Homemaking, Mothering tool kit, Our home, Uncategorized on Feb 4th, 2010
The past month has been an opportunity to re-evaluate what we value as a family – to really examine what we strive to be and to accomplish. Although unintentional, the blogging break these past several weeks has been very therapeutic for our whole family. (Actually, it was a break from all computer-related activities). I realized [...]
Posted in From my kitchen, Homemaking on Jul 20th, 2009
I don’t usually make marmalade until the winter, when citrus is in season. (Although citrus is so refreshing in the heat of summer.) However, I happened to have an abundance of limes, so what else was there to do but make a batch of Dainty Lime Marmalade ( in the wee hours of the [...]
Posted in Homemaking, Moderation and Economy on Jun 10th, 2009
The mending has been piling up for some time now. Buttons are missing, hems are coming loose, a few little tears and snags here and there. Good thing it’s the kind of day where you want to stay inside, doing something quiet. The girls are playing with their PlayMobils on the living room floor, the [...]