So it's kind of the cooking Olympics this week. My menu this week is going to be whatever I can fling at them after a long day of cooking for Thursday. Pizza on Wenesday is almost guaranteed. To prepare I spent yesterday following some of Aunty Leila's advice about getting ready. I prepped desserts, I paid my […]
Archives for November 2014
Six Ways To Be Thoughtful Gift Giver
"Have you ever had the experience of giving a gift and knowing the recipient hated it? Either by the look on the person’s face when he or she opened it or its disregard later? I have, and it’s not a good feeling. I have also been on the other end of the problem." My […]
High School in the Bonny Blue House
It has been a while since I updated on our homeschool life here. I spend so much time writing about it at the Seton blog and speaking at conferences that I forget to do a nitty gritty kind of post here. So here's some nitty gritty. As you may remember our Katie has graduated and is happily […]
Menu Monday: Cookbooks
Over the last year my dad has been on a mission to declutter his house, see my mom passed away about two years ago and she was a collector of many things. Many, many things. To be honest she was a packrat. A very nice pack rat but a pack rat nonetheless. Whenever I visit […]
Teacher service day: how to do it the homeschool way
"Here in New York I will, on occasion, look out the window and see a few children out and about on a regular school day. While it would be nice to think there were suddenly a lot more homeschoolers in my area, the explanation is usually a teacher service day. The public schools give teachers […]