Ahhh… October…. is there a more beautiful month of the year? The weather, the colors, the crisp air, the smell of burning leaves (yes, I love it) and the nearness of the holidays make this month one of my favorites! Closing out this wonderful month is Halloween! I have fond, fond memories of trick or […]
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Fall Leaf Walk is Our Favorite and Our Best
(Photo of leaves Littlest Girl collected in the backyard before we left). We spent a favorite afternoon looking for fall colors. Our favorite because Hodgepodgedad had the day off for Columbus Day. Our best because we headed to Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park all together for a fall leaf walk. (Plus we like the BBC […]
Visual Latin Curriculum Review
Warning. The free lessons you may download and watch will have you hooked. Watch them with your children only if you want to hear… Laughter. Soon followed by, “Can we watch another?” Then after the second introductory lesson, “Can we watch just one more?” “…better to make students laugh than yawn.” ~ visuallatin.com Why should […]
Homemade Paper Doll Costume: Frugal Living
I think this has to be my favorite Pinterest find yet! I showed it to Middle Girl and she took off with it. We got a few pieces of poster board and she got out the markers, scissors and tape. How much does a piece of poster board cost? A dollar? Maybe $1.50. Plus the […]
Watercolor Mosaic – Art and Math
Last week I saw this beautiful watercolor mosaic art over at Cindy’s Our Journey Westward. Somewhere in the back of my mind I also remember Barb-Harmony Art Mom and her boys doing this as well. Cindy shared that she saw the idea at Heather’s Blog She Wrote. It’s such a fun, easy activity with beautiful […]
Two Gifts
Our Adoption Journey Originally Posted @ The One Thing on September 11, 2010 by Angie Jamie @ See Jamie Blog has been high-lighting adoption stories and she ask if I would share our journey to adoption. I have shared our story many times but I have never written it down before. As I start to […]
Everyday Gifts
It’s the unexpected that gets me all the time. The unexpected in the middle of the regular. Stuffy-nosed girl. Weary with allergies. One late afternoon last week she’s abandoned the science fair project and opened jillions of beads in the family room floor. She’s making jewelry. I’m busy elsewhere and she brings them. The kind […]
More Spider Web Studies and the Shirt to Prove It
Friday, right before lunch, he calls from the treehouse again. “Come see! Come see! It’s a spider web!” Lil’ Buddy alerts us that the spider moved its web to the top of the slide. I come with my camera and join the gathering. We are struck by the beauty of the web. We just sit […]
Fast Food for Slow Sundays: Italian Stuffed Shells
If you’ve known me for very long you know how much my family and I love Italian Stuffed Shells. Making triple batches of this pasta helps keep us stock-piled for a while or ready to share with other families. The simple recipe plus the plan for making a triple batch and flash freezing individual shells […]
Fantastic Fair Finale and Spread of Science Projects
We started our week off with the winning news of state fair entries! When we went to pick up our art entries we found the girls’ flower entries had been awarded top prizes. Littlest girl’s rose won a blue ribbon. And Middle Girl’s hydrangea won a blue ribbon, the overall youth award and Best of […]
Red Wall School Room
It’s a one year anniversary of a new red wall in the Hodgepodge homeschool room. This is what we were doing this time last year… Yes, while we are taking a week off, we are alternating a bit of having fun and getting stuff done. A field trip, paint a wall. Family walk, paint a […]
Cobweb Hunt and How to Draw A Web
A ‘help me’ scream came from Lil’ Buddy in the backyard. To me it sounded like he may have hurt himself. He was up in the treehouse portion of the swing set. Frozen in the open doorway, he exclaimed,”I’m stuck! Stuck in the spider web and I can’t move.” But you can, I told him. […]
SunButter No Bake Cookie Bites
Another peanut butter recipe from Southern Plate turned SunButter recipe for Hodgepodge! No bake with yummy ingredients. And yet another afternoon of cooking fun. Mixing and stirring! A great way to get oatmeal in these children. Anything with SunButter! Click over to Southern Plate for the recipe: Peanut Butter No Bake Cookie Bites and just […]