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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Books Read in 2009: The Storm, by Frederick Buechner

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"It was a miracle, Willow had said, that Violet Sickert had been clever enough to bully Dalton Maxwell into coming to the island for th...
Friday, January 30, 2009

Cauliflower, not too complicated

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Cauliflower is one of those vegetables I buy when it's reasonably priced but then have to find something to do with that will get eaten ...
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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Uncrocking the chicken

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I've made Applesauce Chicken in the crockpot before (thanks, Steph! ); we liked it and appreciated that it was a low-sodium -without-t...

Ah, that is the question

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Jaimie wants to know "Is Frugality A Fad Or a Trend That Will Last?" ( Frugal Hacks ) Well, the way I see it is kind of like th...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Wild, wild horses (The Silver Brumby)

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One of The Apprentice's friends loaned her Elyne Mitchell's The Silver Brumby , and then Mama Squirrel read it to Crayons. This ser...
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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Books read in 2009: Two books on writing

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"Hear him, ye gods!" returned his companion. "I assure you, Mr. Pattieson, you will hardly visit this learned gentleman, but ...
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Monday, January 19, 2009

Crisp Seedy Oatmeal Cookies--or bars

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I made this Canadian Living cookie recipe today--but part of the oven was already taken up with dinner and I didn't want to fuss with m...

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn: narration by Crayons

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Little Portly Otter is missing, and all the animals are concerned. Mr. Otter sat at the place where Portly liked best, and Rat and Mole went...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

Crayons' Grade Two: Plans for this week

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I'm going to set up this week's schedule a bit differently, by subject instead of day. That way I don't have to keep saying ...
Friday, January 16, 2009

Crayons' Grade Two: Plans for Friday

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Read Psalm 117, sing O Canada, pray Spelling test Review week's memory work: Like a River Glorious, "Sea Shell," catechism (Ca...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Books read in 2009: Marva Collins' Way

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"In [a poet's] youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, ...
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Monday, January 12, 2009

Books read in 2009: The Bone Sharps

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I've finished one book from my "official" list, and another book I started late last year. Here's the review of the first ...
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Friday, January 09, 2009

Baked Pumpkin Doughnuts

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Sarah commented on the menu post and asked about the doughnut recipe--I saw it first on Grocery Cart Challenge and have made it a couple of ...
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More snow, more school

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Plans for Friday, including a couple of things we put off earlier in the week: Singing Make up two math problems for Mom to solve Pilgrim...
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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Crayons' Grade Two: School Plans Today

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We were already three weeks into the second term when we took our Christmas break, so we're just continuing with what we were doing. I w...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Lines for Epiphany

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Light looked down and beheld Darkness 'Thither will I go,' said Light. Peace looked down and beheld war, 'Thither will I go,...

There they're their: a present from The Apprentice

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The perfect gift for a homeschool mom. Thanks, Apprentice!
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Sunday, December 28, 2008

20 library books I want to read in 2009

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I'm hoping to read as many of these as I can this year, in no particular order. The titles came mostly from weekend-paper book reviews--...
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A gift for Crayons (Opera for Kids)

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World's Very Best Opera for Kids...In English (Santa Claus knows that Crayons likes Carmen .)
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Monday, December 22, 2008

Where are you from?--Frederick Buechner on Story

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This is what I was looking for when I stumbled over that Grinch post. "The Child in Us" "We weren't born yesterday. We a...
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