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in Frugal Living&middot HomeCooking&middot HomeMaking

Savings with Slow Cooker Yogurt

With seven in our household it seems we are always out of something. Especially with the two eldest children constantly grazing. However, since I replaced store-bought yogurt with homemade slow cooker yogurt, I don’t have to ration yogurt cups. I can say yes, please have some yogurt. Slow cooker yogurt is so easy to make. […]

Filed Under: Frugal Living, HomeCooking, HomeMaking Tagged With: $5 Dinners, frugal living, slow cooker, yogurt

in HomeSchooling

B is for Bracelet

My entry in the Homeschool Post’s A B See Photo Meme. Hi! My name is Luci, and I am 13 years old. I love Jesus with all my heart ♥ I have a passion for photography and music. ~Music, Markers & Musings.

Filed Under: HomeSchooling Tagged With: A B See Meme, bracelet, Music Markers & Musings, photo

in Habits for a Happy Dad&middot Habits for a Happy Mom&middot Habits for a Happy Wife&middot Habits for Happy Kids&middot Habits for life&middot Homeschool Habits

Forming Habits – The Ones We Shouldn’t Have Are the Easiest Ones to Form

When I have formed a habit, it’s usually because I have taken the time to write something down on my calendar and keep doing so until I don’t think about it anymore. I just do it. If I think I might forget to do something, I’ll set a reminder on my cell phone like an […]

Filed Under: Habits for a Happy Dad, Habits for a Happy Mom, Habits for a Happy Wife, Habits for Happy Kids, Habits for life, Homeschool Habits Tagged With: developing habits, forming habits, written by Sherri

in Family Life

Who? What? Where? When? Why?

I’m joining in the photoplay hosted by The High Calling. This challenge stretched me as I was to capture five images that represent the Ws of my history… Who made up your DNA? The above is a photo of Mama Ann’s side of the family – summer time at the beach. This photo is in […]

Filed Under: Family Life Tagged With: High Calling, photo

in Allergy Adaptations&middot Frugal Living&middot HomeCooking&middot Simple Strategies

Homemade Cookie Dough: Frugal Living

I’ve talked about them a lot. Even given them as gifts. But it’s been a while since I shared the steps to goodness. Now, I will tell you up front that this, our favorite cookie recipe, is not published online anymore for free. But…Bread Beckers Ranger cookies are similar. Plus, they are a time investment. […]

Filed Under: Allergy Adaptations, Frugal Living, HomeCooking, Simple Strategies Tagged With: allergy adaptation, allergy friendly, batch cooking, Bread Beckers, cookie cake, cookie dough, cookies, freeze, freshly ground, frugal living, homemade, recipe, whole wheat

in Habits for life&middot Heavenly Habits

Making Habits Stick: 31 in 31

In my last post on making habits stick I mentioned Flylady’s one habit a month. Since then I’ve been reminded of other avenues for habit building. One is making three goals to reach in 30 days. So, three habits in a month. 3 in 30. But this is the one that I really like. My […]

Filed Under: Habits for life, Heavenly Habits Tagged With: 31 in 31, Bible, developing habits, habit building, Proverb a day, Proverbs, written by Tricia

in Faith & Gratitude&middot Habits&middot HomeMaking

Making Habits Stick: 31 in 31

In my last post on making habits stick I mentioned Flylady’s one habit a month. Since then I’ve been reminded of other avenues for habit building. One is making three goals to reach in 30 days. So, three habits in a month. 3 in 30. But this is the one that I really like. Join […]

Filed Under: Faith & Gratitude, Habits, HomeMaking Tagged With: 31 in 31, building habits, habits, Habits for a Happy Home, proverb

in HomeSchooling&middot Nature Studies

Summer nature walks and discoveries

Besides our August pond studies with the Handbook of Nature Study, we’ve also enjoyed some nature walks and other discoveries. Early in the month we played in Mama Ann’s stream, which is always fun. We’ll get to do that another day this week! One morning last week we met our friend, Angie @ The One […]

Filed Under: HomeSchooling, Nature Studies Tagged With: bunny, insect, nature study, nature study with children, outdoor hour challenge, pond

in Faith & Gratitude&middot Family Life&middot HomeMaking

Blessed Beach

pure pleasure from the archives… I can almost smell the salt air… “Something deep in all of us yearns for God’s beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.” ~Sue Monk Kidd A last minute decision to move up our vacation. Clothes thrown in a bag and we dashed south. Gratitude jotted […]

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

in Habits&middot Helpful Habits&middot HomeSchooling

It’s a Full Schedule Now!

Please bear with me as this is a long post. It’s just impossible to fit in the hodgepodge of a Hodgepodge homeschool day and be brief! It’s the age range, I tell ya! —->Wow, this week was full force, ramped up and regular schedule. Starting out with an ER trip and stitches for littlest guy […]

Filed Under: Habits, Helpful Habits, HomeSchooling Tagged With: a day in the life, blog hop, camera phone Friday, curriculum, Heart of the Matter, helpful habit, hodgepodge curricula 2011-2012, homeschool, weekly wrap

in Habits for life&middot Homeschool Habits

Saturday Morning Mathematics

from the 2010 Hodgepodge archives…How to build habits in the day to day… Several weeks ago, I took our two eldest children on a shopping trip. The eldest girl needed some new clothes. She wanted to shop at a fashion store in an upscale shopping center. She had a 40% off coupon in hand, and […]

Filed Under: Habits for life, Homeschool Habits Tagged With: building habits, lifestyle of learning, math, written by Steve

in Habits&middot HomeMaking&middot Parenting

Saturday Morning Mathematics

Sharing a post from the Hodgepodge archives over at Habits for a Happy Home today… Several weeks ago, I took our two eldest children on a shopping trip. The eldest girl needed some new clothes. She wanted to shop at a fashion store in an upscale shopping center. She had a 40% off coupon in […]

Filed Under: Habits, HomeMaking, Parenting Tagged With: habits, Habits for a Happy Home, lifestyle of learning, math

in Free Pastel Tutorials&middot HomeSchooling

Lily Pad: A Pastels Tutorial

Stunning results on a black sheet of construction paper! That describes Nana’s latest pastel tutorial. After our wonderful trip to Lily Pad Pond, we really wanted to make some lily pads with pastels. So… We cut sheets of black construction paper in half and gathered our colors. Remember that in most of Nana’s tutorials, we […]

Filed Under: Free Pastel Tutorials, HomeSchooling Tagged With: art, art with children, by Nana, chalk pastels, free pastel lesson, lily pad, master artists, pastels, pond, tutorial

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