February 2009

13 Benefits of Having a Family Garden for Kids

1. They’ll have the chance to see that food isn’t just “born” at the store. 2. It’s a great opportunity to get them to try new things! 3. They get to see that bees only purpose is not stinging people. You can talk about why you need bees for your garden. 4. Butterflies! Just today, [...]

Being "all in" for God

We are just hours from the start of Lent right now, and many in the blogosphere are discussing whether they tell people what they are giving up for Lent or they are just sharing what it is that they are doing. For many years (while I was Episcopalian), I gave up things that I thought [...]

I’m Tired of Tweaking Coding

My tackle this week was to finally just settle on a new blog design and go with it. But, that also meant copying widget information and the like. Well…there was that, but then there was the fact that when I got it up, I thought, “Maybe I don’t really like this.” But, instead of giving [...]

I’ve Made Some Changes

I still need to do some work on the header, as well as adding back all of my widgets, but I have to go to work for a few hours now! Augh! (Darn work getting in the way of my blogging. Ha!) Hopefully I’ll have the blog all fixed up before I go to bed [...]

Working on my Blog

If you pop by today and the blog looks bad, please know that I am playing around with things. I hope that it will look fine by tonight!

Many Little Links: The Children’s Choir Edition

This week was a fun event for us — Jack sang with the children’s choir at Mass. It was his first performance, and we were relieved that he didn’t do anything crazy in front of everyone. Sure, he did yawn a lot, and there was at least once when he was facing the complete opposite [...]

Free Pizza for Homeschoolers

Enrollment is now open for the Pizza Hut Book It! Program for homeschoolers! Our boys have loved being able to earn a free personal pan pizza each month for reading, thanks to this great program. When you sign up, you will just put in your basic information (name, address, homeschool name), as well as how [...]

Break Out the Tuna Can — It’s Almost Time for Lent

Danielle over at Faith and Family has posted looking for meatless recipes for Lenten Fridays. Of course, choosing one day a week to go meatless is a great way to save money throughout the entire year. During Lent though, Catholics age 14 – 59 are obligated to abstain from meat on Fridays as a sacrifice. [...]

One of the Best Gifts to Give a Family with a New Baby

I already alluded to this post in my last post, which was directions on how I make homemade chicken noodle soup. I have found that, by far, one of the best gifts to give a family with a new baby is to offer to bring them a meal. When I do that, I try to [...]

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

One thing that I recently tackled that I need to do was to make dinners for a couple of families with new babies. It was great to get that done, and I know what a blessing it is to receive meals when you have a new baby in the household! For both families that I [...]

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