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in Habits for a Happy Dad· Habits for a Happy Mom· Habits for Happy Kids· Homeschool Habits· Housekeeping Habits

Taming the “wild west”

In a recent post on Passionate Purposeful Parenting entitled Defense in Depth, I wrote about the methods we use to protect our children from the “wild west” of the Internet.  The techniques I mentioned work very well for our computers and other devices in our home. But what about those pesky mobile devices? You know […]

Filed Under: Habits for a Happy Dad, Habits for a Happy Mom, Habits for Happy Kids, Homeschool Habits, Housekeeping Habits Tagged With: defense in depth, iDevice, internet security, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iTouch, parenting, Passionate Purposeful Parenting, security

in Frugal Living· HomeCooking· Simple Strategies

Savings with Homemade Hummus at $5 Dinners

Raise your hand if you love hummus. Yes, yes, lots of folks out there. Me too! Ok. How many of you pay big bucks for one of those tiny tubs of hummus at the store? A few, yes. How many have this little problem of keeping food and snacks stocked in your house? Me too! […]

Filed Under: Frugal Living, HomeCooking, Simple Strategies Tagged With: $5 Dinners, appetizer, batch cooking, frugal living, hummus, recipe, slow cooker, snack

in Free Pastel Tutorials· HomeSchooling· Uncategorized

Beach Umbrellas: A Pastels Tutorial

From the summer archives…We sat at the coffee table and looked out at the view. The brilliant teal blue water and the colorful beach umbrellas. Yes, we really had made it to the beach. And on this afternoon, Nana showed us how to capture the brilliant colors in pastels. Not only did we learn how […]

Filed Under: Free Pastel Tutorials, HomeSchooling, Uncategorized Tagged With: art, beach, free, homeschool, lesson, Nana, pastel lessons, pastel tutorial, umbrellas

in Nature Studies

Weeds, Seeds, Insects and Signs of Fall Homeschool Nature Study

“It’s right up here. The field guide. Let’s watch to see if we see any milkweed.” My instructions to the children as we pulled out of the driveway. Milkweed is supposed to be a roadside variety. (I learned this from the pages and pages in a download of the Georgia varieties I found in a […]

Filed Under: Nature Studies Tagged With: nature studies, nature studies with children, outdoor hour challenge, signs of autumn

in Frugal Living· HomeCooking

Frugal Living: Homemade Wheat Thins

Yep! Can you believe it? I made homemade wheat thins. What prompted me was not only my addiction to these crispy delicious snack crackers but the $3.50 for a family-sized box. The box that lasts less than a week around here. Now, the recipe is fairly simple. And all together it didn’t take too much […]

Filed Under: Frugal Living, HomeCooking Tagged With: frugal living, homemade, recipe, wheat thins

in Faith & Gratitude· Family Life· HomeMaking· Parenting

Just as you want it

You can have just as you want it when you are by yourself years from now. Nana said it. She was across the room, straightening a bookshelf. I sat underneath the kitchen table, amazed and saying out loud that I’d not noticed all those splatters on the chair legs. Asking her how I’d missed it. […]

Filed Under: Faith & Gratitude, Family Life, HomeMaking, Parenting Tagged With: 1000 gifts, gratitude, parenting

in Frugal Living

Finding Frugal at Sam’s Noggin

I used to be able to point to one or two really big things that have made a difference in our family life because of our frugal living lifestyle. I tried my best to narrow down some topics to share with you today. But I couldn’t. See, since I first found the many freedoms in […]

Filed Under: Frugal Living Tagged With: frugal, frugal living, gift ideas, Sam's Noggin

in HomeCooking· Simple Strategies

Fast Food for Slow Sundays: Slow Cooker Pizza Casserole

Another favorite for Sunday lunch. Slow Cooker Pizza from Taste of Home. It’s a pasta version with pepperoni (we use turkey pepperoni) and lots of cheese. Click over for the recipe. Then serve it up and enjoy the smiles. For more Sunday lunch ideas that can be enjoyed any day of the week, see Fast […]

Filed Under: HomeCooking, Simple Strategies Tagged With: casserole, fast food for slow sundays, pizza, recipe, slow cooker, Taste of Home

in Habits· Helpful Habits· HomeSchooling

Homeschool Meme + Weekly Wrap

1. Field of Flags on 9/11 – Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield | 2. Using our noggins for AiG Science | 3. It’s All in the Tone @ Passionate Purposeful Parenting | 4. Dental afternoon – sealants for 2 | 5. Club Penguin Dance Party for PE! | 6. First BD cards for Eldest Girl | […]

Filed Under: Habits, Helpful Habits, HomeSchooling Tagged With: birthday, camera phone Friday, helpful habit, Homeschool Highlights, homeschool meme, weekly wrap

in Habits for life· Heavenly Habits

Seeing Our Inconveniences as Gospel Opportunities!

We live in an apartment. Even though my husband and I both grew up in the suburbs, we  have a deep city-love! The way I feel when I look at a city skyline at night is how other people may feel about a beautiful waterfall. We aren’t downtown but we are “in the perimeter” and […]

Filed Under: Habits for life, Heavenly Habits Tagged With: written by Trisha

in Free Pastel Tutorials· HomeCooking· Southern Recipes

Fudge Pie: A Pastels Tutorial Plus Recipe

Are you ready to whip up a fudge pie? Well, guess what? You can either stir up a pie on your paper or use our fudge pie recipe to bake one in your oven – or both! How about we start with a fudge pie pastels tutorial. Nana has fudge pie art lessons to go […]

Filed Under: Free Pastel Tutorials, HomeCooking, Southern Recipes Tagged With: chalk pastels, dessert, free, fudge, fudge pie, Heart of the Matter, Nana, pastel tutorial, pastels, pie, recipe

in Allergy Adaptations· Cooking Fun with Children· HomeCooking

Crunchy SunButter Plus Apple ‘Sandwich’ Recipe

We go through some SunButter in our household. Our typical order is two 5 lb. buckets each month. However, this time we thought we’d give Crunchy SunButter, available in 1 lb jars, a try. We’d been wanting to. And so, we placed an order for six 1 lb jars of crunchy. Crunchy SunButter made our […]

Filed Under: Allergy Adaptations, Cooking Fun with Children, HomeCooking Tagged With: allergy adaptation, allergy friendly, apple sunbutter sandwich, Cooking Fun, recipe, Sunbutter

in Habits for a Happy Dad· Habits for a Happy Mom· Habits for Happy Kids· Habits for life· Heavenly Habits

How do you know what to do?

I was watching my youngest yesterday take forever to decide what he wanted to get with his winning tickets. The problem was there were just too many choices, especially when he had so many prizes in front of him that he couldn’t choose because he didn’t have enough tickets. Of course that didn’t stop his […]

Filed Under: Habits for a Happy Dad, Habits for a Happy Mom, Habits for Happy Kids, Habits for life, Heavenly Habits

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