confessions

2012: Our Food Revolution Year

While I realize that I have a recipe index here on Many Little Blessings, and I talk about cooking and baking, I have a confession to make: Cooking is really a struggle for me.  I’m not someone who will just whip up something in the kitchen.  I need directions.  And, honestly – this doesn’t bother [...]

What to Do When Homeschooling Doesn’t Look Like You Imagined?

Today, I’m asking you, the wonderful readers of The Homeschool Classroom, a question that has really vexed me for a while now: What do you do when homeschooling doesn’t look like you imagined it would look? This isn’t to say that I need our schooling to look just like I imagined it would be when [...]

7 Quick Takes: January 28, 2011 (Vol. 68)

~ 1 ~ I’ve been working on eating better the last couple of weeks, though I’ve had off days and on days.  Nothing has been really steady, even though I had told myself that I would really focus on healthier eating and exercise when I got home from vacation. This week, however, I downloaded the [...]

Will You Still Love Me If I’m Not Mary Poppins?

One of my favorite scenes in Mary Poppins is when she has just met the Banks children, and she measures them with a tape measure which is printed with attributes about them right at their heights.  When Mary Poppins is then measured, the tape measure reads, “Practically Perfect in Every Way.” I’m here to say [...]

7 Quick Takes: August 6, 2010 (Vol. 48)

~ 1 ~ From the “You’ve Got to Be Kidding, Right?” Department: My Mom had follow up appointments this week with the surgeon from her emergency open heart surgery on July 1st, and then with her cardiologist.  There was some discussion of recent chest pain she has been having, and so she is having a [...]

Top Ten Things I Have Been Thinking Of Lately

It seems like I have been a little aimless lately. I had been wanting to participate in Top Ten Tuesday and figured, “Hey, why not just talk about what kinds of things I have been thinking of lately?”  So, here are my random things that I have been pondering on. 1.  Am I ever going [...]

How Not To Do a Big Baking Evening

My friend Myra, at My Blessed Life, started a weekly carnival (or meme) a couple of months ago called Friday Fails (with a tag line that is so true – “Because a blessed life is not always a perfect life.”) I usually don’t have to search too long to find my little fails throughout the [...]

How Do You Get Caught Up?

I don’t know if it’s the weather or so much sickness going around or just the time of year, but it seems like a lot of people that I have talked to lately report just feeling behind in just about everything.  I am feeling like that too.  So, of course, I know that none of [...]

7 Quick Takes: February 12, 2010 (Vol. 29)

~ 1 ~ I still haven’t gotten caught up from Blissdom 2010.  I promise that it is my intention to write about it very, very soon.  But, here is a sneak peek of my Blissdom experience (one of the few pictures I got)…   That’s me, George Duran (formerly of Food Network’s Ham on the [...]

Strategies For Getting Caught Up On Email for the Easily Distracted

Did that title catch your eye?  It probably means that you are a lot like me.  I have the best of intentions to get caught up on email, but then one email makes me say, “Oh yeah — I meant to check that on Facebook.”  Or, maybe an email mentions an idea that I want [...]

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