Now’s your chance to enter to enter the 43rd Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest!Hey, you’re going to be dusting off some of your favorite recipes for Easter, anyway. Why not give it a go?According to the press release I received, the contest gives amateur cooks the chance to submit their original recipes to compete for a $1 million prize.There are new … [Read more...]
Cabin Fever or the Black Plague?
Whatever it is, I feel like this house is about to implode.We are so ready for spring to be here. … [Read more...]
Saxon Math Meets FlyLady
Did you know you can empty an entire draining rack during a 2-minute timed drill?And here I thought I had to look at those dishes all day. … [Read more...]
Calling All Authors!
...would-be or otherwise!The publishers of the latest edition in the Amazing Grace series, Amazing Grace for Home Schoolers, are in need of a few good submissions.According to Theresa Thomas, (one of the editors), “It will be 101 stories of faith, hope, inspiration & humor for home schooling families, showing God's grace in their lives.”Do you … [Read more...]
Homeschooling Mother Tries Subversive New Tactic
My boys were complaining that they never got a snow day.So I gave them one.And somehow, we're all fine with that. … [Read more...]
You Know It’s Cold and Dry When…
You slather on the hand lotion and fifteen minutes later, your hands are dry again. You go to lovingly apply some of that same lotion to your daughter’s itchy arms, and she complains that your hands are “snagging” her. And finally, your son wakes you up in the middle of the night because he itches so badly. He is madder than a little hornet … [Read more...]
The A-B-C’s of Homemaking
I was honored to be tagged for the homemaking meme by the author of one of my favorite blogs, The Gift that's Kristen. (Okay, so that's my name for it.)When it comes to homemaking, I am a total work-in-progress. I love having my home all neat and tidy, but with five little people running around it doesn’t often happen. Sometimes I start to overly … [Read more...]
You Know that You’re Married to a Patent Attorney
...when you find the following posted in the bathroom:Minnesota Mom, IncorporatedSTANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES MANUALFILE 2.1.A.ii(c): Use of Common Personal Care Containers1. Purpose: To enable employees to properly make use of common personal care containers, such as toothpaste, shampoo, mouthwash, and the like.2. Problem: Current Standard … [Read more...]
Everything AND the Kitchen Sink
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one."C.S. Lewis Jane at Blackberry Brambles has proposed sharing pictures of the view from our kitchen sink.I was hugely inspired by this idea—a simple notion and yet, such a gesture of friendship. After all, the kitchen sink is where we … [Read more...]
I Can’t Hear You!
Subtitled: Upon waking from a really bad dream and wanting to tell my subconscious to shut up.And I don’t even let my kids say shut up.That’s how bad the dream was.In it, my parents were packing up after a visit. I stopped by our guest room (which is also our office/library/garbage dump) to see how they were doing. Imagine my surprise when I saw … [Read more...]
