October 2009

7 Quick Takes: October 30, 2009 (Vol. 20)

~ 1 ~ I have been working on trying to find time to exercise every day lately.  It’s funny though, I feel like I am wasting time when I am doing it.  It’s like time exercising is akin to time spent reading Facebook to me.  I seriously need to adjust that thinking.  If I could [...]

Play It Again: Cleaning Out the Pantry for Halloween

Here’s something I have done for several years now, and I thought I would pass it along. I do some pantry cleaning every year on Halloween — right into the Halloween treat bowl! Okay, don’t get the wrong idea, I am not putting in cans of pinto beans or packets of dry spaghetti mix. I [...]

Exploring Electronics with Dad

This winter, our DVD/VCR combo died.  First the VCR portion died, and then finally, the DVD player bit the dust as well.  As you can see, our DVD player died with a DVD inside.  This meant that before we got rid of it, Eric was going to need to take it partially apart to get [...]

Cleaning My Itty Bitty Craft Room…Once Again

Do you have a room or area of your house that always seems to get messy?  I would like to say that my craft room is that area in our house, but I would be overlooking my desk and the counter.  (I will admit, however, that I did notice that two of the most problem [...]

Many Little Links: October 25, 2009

How to Make Your Home a Natural Learning Environment — Zen Family Habits This is a great post with all kinds of mostly simple ways to enrich your home environment for your kids. These Shoes — Finding My Way The very moving story of one woman’s journey on a 3 Day Breast Cancer Walk.  Whole [...]

7 Quick Takes: October 23, 2009 (Vol. 19)

~ 1 ~ Right now, I have orange star-shaped Post It notes all over my house.  They are stuck to the walls and to many surfaces.  Many, many surfaces.  Some have pictures on them, and some have labels of whatever they are stuck to. Molly and Jack did this yesterday.  They did one, and then [...]

Support Your Favorite Bloggers This Holiday Shopping Season

My Works for Me Wednesday tip this week is something that is quick, easy, and helps out fellow bloggers.  And really, who doesn’t like all of those things? With the Christmas shopping season coming up, Amazon.com is one of my favorite places to shop.  (I especially love shopping there since I sprung for buying a [...]

Flash Freezing Fruit to Save Money and the Environment

Forgive me, but I should have posted about flash freezing before our weather went to flash freezing in the blink of an eye.  However, I got to think about it while cleaning out my freezer and coming across cherries and blueberries.  So, I decided to go ahead and post about it right now anyway. Why [...]

An Epiphany on Homeschool Scheduling

I had a couple of homeschooling epiphanies at the end of last week.  Granted, they weren’t things that I didn’t already know.  But, for whatever reason, it just really hit me. My first epiphany came upon while I was thinking about a project that my kids are supposed to be working on for a saints [...]

7 Quick Takes: October 16, 2009 (Vol. 18)

~ 1 ~ Molly is having a birthday party this weekend (though she turned five a couple of weeks ago).  It will be her very first party with friends, instead of just family.  She is so excited, and it sounds like a lot of her friends are too (from what I have heard from some [...]

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