Summer school was fun—lots of swimming, playing outside, gardening, and so forth. Now, it’s time to get serious. Mommy has schedules! And plans! and lessons! I woke up this morning almost as excited as I would have been if it had been my OWN first day of school for the new school year…I LOVE […]
I made English Muffins! And they worked!!! I’ve tried making English muffins before. The dough was a soft bready/biscuity dough that you rolled and cut circles out of, then let rise, then cooked on a griddle. Which made for flat, non-impressive biscuits. Well, recently while boongoogling for how to can bananas, I came across a […]
Thursday we dropped daddy off to work near our cousins. Which meant we got to play with cousins all day!!! We even had an impromptu sleepover (so the moms and dads could play games at night). Which left us speeding home early in the morning for the last day of swimming lessons: Made it! Just […]
What’s for lunch? Well, what’s in the Garden?! Zucchini, carrots, onions, corn, and spinach. Chopped, sauteed, and stirred into a pie: Yum! Now, if I could only grow my own eggs, cheese, butter and flour too…
Giant’s swim trunks have ties. He wants to tie them in bows, but cannot. This has perpetuated some great learning time! We practice tying bows with anything we can find, and we found a cute book from the library: Gospel lesson! More geography. Sheesh, where do these kids get this love for geography from?! […]