A simple strategies, frugal living series over on Habits for a Happy Home. Back to basics – a basic routine Back to basics: Simple Suppers – give me easy and make it fast Back to basics: Vacation Planning – doubling recipes Back to basics: Big-shop cooking – using the crock pot to cook chicken, ground […]
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Slow Cooker Cranberry Chicken
As promised, a recipe from that red-and-white-checked I’m Writing My Own Cookbook. This one an all-time favorite. Not only because it is just two ingredients but because it is delicious. We enjoy this regularly for Sunday dinner or a weeknight delight. This is eldest girl’s favorite! Simply put the amount of chicken in the crock […]
Hodgepodge Curricula 2010-2011
2010-2011: 7th, 6th and 3rd grades plus two preschoolers Tapestry of Grace Year 4 “From Teddy Roosevelt to Sept 11th” everyone participates in this unit study approach which includes History, Writing, Vocabulary, Geography, Bible, Worldview, Arts and Activities, Literature and Music. We use workboxes with Tapestry. Read about how I am the Tapestry cheerleader here […]
Simple Suppers: Pizza Bites
Got a tube of store-bought pizza dough? You can make these tonight! We fixed them up in about 20 minutes last Friday night. Another find from Nana. (Thank you for the link!) Pizza bites are like tiny versions of our favorite stromboli. You can even dip them in spaghetti sauce. We dipped in olive oil […]
Reflection of the Mystery
Each year as Valentine’s rolls around preacher daddy and I celebrate the anniversary of our first date. It has been 29 years since we went to my high school Valentine’s dance. If you had told me the night of that dance that preacher daddy and I would be married five years later, that I […]
A different kind of love
I came across this verse the other day in Job: He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths. – Job 19:8 It reminded me of another verse from Hosea, one of the most beautiful love stories of all. Therefore, behold I will hedge up […]
Allergy Friendly Living, Part Two – Sunbutter
Sunbutter® is a wholesale Hodgepodge replacement for peanut butter. It is the very first product we turned to when we discovered peanut and tree nut allergies in the younger two. Back then, we just bought the little jar from the grocery store. Then we discovered the Sunbutter® store on their site! Every month we order […]
Homemade Laundry Detergent At Saving Cents with Sense
Do you know about the frugal living community on Twitter? That’s where I met my new friend, Melissa. I’m sharing how to make homemade laundry detergent on her site, Saving Cents with Sense today. I’d love for you to stop by for a visit! How to Make Homemade Laundry Detergent. Then follow Melissa on Twitter […]
Love is……..
Love is…. Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, Doesn’t have a swelled head, Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always “me first,” Doesn’t fly off the handle, Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, Doesn’t revel when others […]
Simple Schooling Strategies
Hodgepodge Simple Schooling Strategies Practical Prayer – how to keep a prayer life in the day to day of balancing the age range. Helpful Homeschool Habits – all the most useful ones compiled in one post. The Housekeeping Habits that Bless Our Home – a list of favorites. Jurisdictions – carving the big job of […]
Allergy Friendly Living, Part One
I’ve shared before about our trials and triumphs with allergies. Told about how we’ve left life in the drive thru lane for the road home. The reasons? Well, first we like to eat healthy. Then there is the cost of feeding seven of us and our habit of frugal living. But basically we have to […]
The Best Medicine
When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing each other. ~Alan Alda Looking back, I’m not sure how our marriage survived the early years. Actually, I guess I do know. It was God and God alone that held us together. See, I was far too serious about everything. Remember the milk episode? But somewhere along […]
They are watching
Supper on the table for everyone, I gathered my things and blew a kiss goodbye. It was a moms meeting night. Homeschool mothers gathering to laugh and encourage each other on this journey. I couldn’t wait. The next day, as I’m wiping the counter after lunch, I’m asked. Youngest girl is playing close by. The […]