A Twinge of Self-Sufficiency…
I like to play this game where I try to stock up enough food and staples that I don’t have to go grocery shopping for a long time. After a lot of practice I…
DIY Wooden Unit Blocks
My eyes were first opened to the potential of unit blocks when I read this post on How We Montessori. I was intrigued so I requested Teaching Numeracy, Literacy, and Language with Blocks from our state library system…
Catching Up… February 2014
How did you fair this winter? I am DONE with winter, DONE I say! It was rough.
IKEA Tarva Changing Table Top
We’re waiting on baby over here so while we wait we are finishing some projects. Yesterday, Brian and I added this top to the dresser in the nursery. The dresser is the 3 drawer Tarva from ikea. It is unfinished pine so it was easy to match pieces from Menard’s for the top…
The Best Homemade Breadsticks EVER!
So Mom, if you’re reading this… I may have snuck in to your house and stole away with your breadstick recipe. It might still be here, in my purse, ready to give back to you…
Oreos and Rain
Most of the snow is gone now and it has been raining since sometime last night. Once lunchtime came at work all I could think about was coming home and cuddling up with a book, a movie, 3 dogs, and a cat. Brian is working late tonight as he is on lookout for flooding across […]
Waste Reduction and Chocolate Muffins
I am very excited to be taking on the the Food Waste Reduction Challenge hosted by Crunchy Chicken (see sidebar for link). To start out I tossed any old food that I found in the fridge so that we can start fresh. Most of what I tossed were old dressings and sauces that we never […]
A Local Loaf
Today I picked up another order of local flours from Hampshire Farms (see sidebar for link). I got: 25# 100% whole grain bread flour10# 100% whole grain pastry flour2# cornmeal5# sunflower seeds (dehulled) Randy Hampshire, who filled my order was more than happy to show me around their farm. They have a USDA approved kitchen […]
A Twinge of Self-Sufficiency
I like to play this game where I try to stock up enough food and staples that I don’t have to go grocery shopping for a long time. After a lot of practice I finally got to where the only things on the list were dairy products such as milk, cheese slices, cheese sticks, and […]
Homemade, Last Minute, Cute, Kinda Green Christmas Cards!
Okay so this morning I started shopping around for Christmas cards online. I’ve done this many times in the past few months and always got discouraged because the recycled cards are sooo expensive. I was going to give up on that idea and instead created a cute card with some caricatures of my family on […]