Dewey's Treehouse

This is the second part of the class session on making eating more a matter of faith (as one of the women in the class put it). (Part One is...

This is the first set of notes from a church class I led on current food issues and trying to live a somewhat simpler lifestyle.    There is...

Only two votes, and both of them wrong--sorry! The Apprentice is working a couple of days a week at a hair salon. She's not actually a...

Ron at The Abarbablog muses on the culture shock of returning from Uganda, and the parent-shock of realizing that our kids are, indeed, gr...

(Tentative plans!) [July 15, 2008: Updated version ] Crayons will be in Grade 2 this fall, and will be following a modified version of Amb...

I've always been of the opinion that a cookie on the counter is worth two bags of chocolate chips in the cupboard--if you know what I me...

I haven't been making yogurt much lately, although I had had some success with Seabird Chronicles' method . I would have a good bat...

We had a request for Sloppy Joes tonight--but we were a bit short on ingredients and didn't have a can of Manwich sauce around either. ...

With Crayons: George and the Chinese Lady , by Myra Scovel (we've also started Hana's New Home ) Three chapters of The Family From O...

There is a store near us that sells rocks. It also carries jewelery, butterflies in cases, and ceramic gifts; but mostly rocks. Some small...

The chicken part of the recipe is adapted from a chicken-sandwich recipe in Canadian Living. I liked the idea of marinating and pre-baking ...

One essential element of being frugal is that you use what you have, the best that you can. Other people have said this over and over too--...

Crayons and I were reading James Herriot's Moses the Kitten for school. She snuggled against me and said, "I want to be close to y...

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...