November 2011

Edible Gifts for Christmas: Let’s Find a Container

During this week, we’ve looked at how to decide what to make as edible gifts, as well as taking into consideration the cost (in both time and money).  Now that we have all of those out of the way, it’s time to consider how we will package up our goodies. I can’t have the perfect [...]

Edible Gifts for Christmas: Is It Really Worth It?

Yesterday, I shared some ideas for creating your list of what edible gifts you might be making this Christmas season.  If you are planning on making edible gifts and you did your homework from yesterday’s post, then you might have an idea of what you’re planning to make.  Now is the point where we really [...]

Edible Gifts for Christmas: What to Make?

Each year for the last many years, I have made a set of edible Christmas gifts to give out to people such as employees at Eric’s work for whom Eric is their boss, religious education teachers, our piano teacher, various therapists, ballet instructor, and the like.  Some years, I have also made a gift basket [...]

Many Little Links: November 27, 2011

An Easy, No-Frills Advent Calendar – Simple Mom Really lovely Advent calendar, though you’d need to put it together pretty quickly, huh? Organized Schedule for a Toddler Playgroup at Home – AboutOne (written by Me!) Want to have a playgroup at home or your co-op?  Here is a schedule to follow or just to get [...]

Are You Ready to Play UNO? Roboto Style!

My kids love playing games, so I was thrilled recently to be able to review the newer game – UNO Roboto. I wasn’t really familiar with the game, but my kids had loved before when we had played a more traditional UNO, so I was hoping that it would be at least as much fun [...]

10 Things I Am Thankful for This Year

Although it’s important to be thankful each day of the year, it’s easier to remember to count those blessings as Thanksgiving week rolls around.  So, as my last post before I focus on spending time with my family this week, I wanted to reflect on ten things that I’m thankful for this year: 1. God’s [...]

Many Little Links: November 20, 2011

I Am Not Enough – The Finer Things in Life Wow!  What an amazing post from Amy.  If you’re feeling inadequate in life, go check this out. 10 Days of Language Arts – Jimmie’s Collage Jimmie wrote a wonderful series on teaching language arts.  Seriously — it’s great.  I think I need to make some [...]

7 Quick Takes: November 18, 2011 (Vol. 104)

~ 1 ~ It seems like the weather lately has been so crazy!  In just the last couple of weeks, we’ve had lovely weather with no need for even a jacket, several hours of snow, and then one day of a crazy storm with tornado warnings and hail.  Not just little hail either.  This was [...]

Refinishing a Piano: Was It Worth It?

As I was listening to Noah practice “Fur Elise” today, I thought about revisiting my post from 2009 when we shared how we refinished a free piano we managed to obtain. Well, hang on.  That’s not entirely true.  The very first thing I thought about was the 1986 McDonald’s commercial where a girl plays the [...]

10 Wii Games My Elementary-Aged Kids Love

I asked the children again this year, just like I did last year (their Wii game list and their DS game list, both from last year), for their favorite Wii games.  They love the idea of helping other people know how to shop.  I also love that this list ended up containing games from a [...]

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