April 2009

You know, the thing you make…

I forgot to share a little gem with you about what Jack had to say about the ruined cake made over into a cake in a jar that I posted about yesterday! After we had several of them lined up on the kitchen counter, Jack said, “Mom — I think this should be the thing [...]

A Yummy Treat with a Ruined Cake

We recently made a cake so that we could make mini wedding cakes during our school day. (Okay, maybe it wasn’t recently. It was actually in March on the Feast Day of St. Joseph.) After we used a large circle cutter to cut out layers for our mini two layer wedding cakes, we had a [...]

I Have An All New Look!

If you have followed my blog for a long time, you’ll know that this is not the first time that I have changed the look of this blog. Heck — I think I just did a major overhaul already this calendar year. But, I just wasn’t happy and decided that I needed a new look. [...]

Real Life Confessions: The Breakfast Edition

It is not unusual for me to post recipes here or talk about cooking. In my “real life,” I have friends that think I am a master chef because I can bake brownies from scratch. (One friend even joked that she didn’t know that brownies could be made without a box mix. Or, at least [...]

Many Little Links: The Middle of the Night Crying Edition

If you’re a parent, you know how it usually goes down. You’ve either had an exhausting day and are finally settling in to a sound sleep or you are staying up late desperately trying to get something done. Then, in an instant, your plans for the night change because a child is crying. As usual, [...]

How Could It Have Been 17 Years Ago?

I mean, really. How could it have been 17 years ago today that I was 15 and my (16 year old) super shy friend Eric grabbed me in the school hallway and kissed me, thus, apparently sealing our fate. (Or, perhaps it was my love declaration when he had an arm full of AV equipment, [...]

Use Simple Cleaning to Keep Germs Away

Here’s a quick tip for today that I don’t do nearly as often as I should, but I definitely do try to do whenever I remember… Door knobs, light switches, cabinet door pulls, and hand rails are breeding grounds for germs. A quick cleaning can help cut down on illnesses around your house. In particular, [...]

Homeschooling: It’s Not Just About 180 Instructional Days

I already wrote about growing seeds here at Many Little Blessings (just last night), and was planning to write a different article, but also on the topic of our seed growing over at The Homeschool Classroom for today. Instead, as I got ready to write about the lessons that growing from seeds were teaching us, [...]

Planting Seeds and Growing in Faith

We had been wanting to start some plants with seeds this year. Not only did I know that it would help us try out things that we couldn’t find as starter plants in the store, but I also knew that it would be a fabulous project for the kids. But, we still ended up putting [...]

GigantaPants vs. Pink Shirta

One weekend in March, Eric was helping to put on a church retreat all weekend. So, it was just me and the kids, and we had big plans. Well, if big plans means doing nothing and working on laundry, then we had big plans. Eric had asked the kids to please be good helpers for [...]

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