Dewey's Treehouse

In between getting ready for Crayons' flower-fairy birthday and getting the girls to their Saturday dance lessons, we managed to hit a c...

OK, I made it to the health food store today and got a package of xanthan gum and some other things, so no more excuses. I also picked up a ...

Someone on another board asked what we're currently reading aloud with our children. Crayons and I are reading The Water Babies . We re...

"Take any books of your mom's that you want," Dad said. Aside from a few of Mom's longtime personal favourites, there re...

This weekend was the annual University Women's Booksale. Some years I never get out of the main room to look at the kids' books or a...

My mom, my aunt and my grandma used to pass recipes around to each other a lot. The interesting thing was that, like that old game show wher...

In memory of Grandma Squirrel 1938-2008 My mother had a remarkable talent--which I do not share--for making things come out looking just lik...

I learned this from a sugar-free website: In a microwaveable bowl, put 1/3 cup of quick oats and 3/4 cup of milk. (The original recipe sugge...

Guess what? I went outside today and it smelled like spring sort of! It smelled like mud actually. But I guess it was a sign of spring even ...

I didn't finish that many books in February; the length of things got away from me. (Unlike the Deputy Headmistress .) I did finish two...

Uh, that's two different recipes--not a very strange-sounding cake. This is what we had for supper last night...all amounts are very app...

From a rummage-saled book: "....I wish to place on record that I am in unrepayable debt to Francis of Assisi, for when I pray his praye...

You're all invited over for acorn cookies. (Like the toy treehouse and the squirrels? Information here and here . )

(repost from 2007) The best book I've read so far this year isn't on my Bookstack Challenge List, but it was on the shelf, so I gu...

Link updated April 2020 I just made this version of Breakfast in a Cookie  (with adjustments) and I think they turned out pretty well. (No...

(A slightly riled apology for what shouldn't need to be apologized for.) I try to stay away from most of the ignorant anti-homeschool ar...

(Reposted from Feb. 2007) Last Sunday night we made a special treat for dessert: Pizza Cake. We adapted our recipe a long time ago from an A...

Someone at church handed me a book to read called Happiness™ by Will Ferguson (Penguin Books, 2002) . I knew it was meant to be satirical; ...

Now that Mama Squirrel is up to the last couple of books in the Mitford series (having skipped #2, which wasn't available, and A Common ...

Squirreling old enough to know better: "I didn't used to do that." Mama Squirrel: "Could you find a more grammatical way ...