If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feedInstructions for Master Tonic are all over the web, here are two. http://www.happy-mothering.com/04/household/recipes/natural-remedies-master-tonic-recipe/ http://recipestonourish.blogspot.com/2011/10/master-tonic.html Each recipe is a little different than the next, and instructions vary a bit, but the big picture is easy to discern. I made some of it. I think [...]
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Where did my life go?
I’m grumpy. Fair warning. If you hate reading rants you are dismissed. See you next time. Exercise has been difficult this week. Monday was a typical Monday, meaning, exercise would be a bummer on any Monday. Then on Tuesday I had a doctor appointment. Got there to find out that I’d left home most of [...]
Online Unit Studies, aka Free Homeschooling!
First, I looked around online and there are approximately 473 millionbilliontrillion literature based unit studies/lapbook/notebook plans already out there, and some of it is even free for the printing! Overwhelming? Just a tad. I had to sleep on it. I came up with a S.T.E.L.L.A.R. plan. Shop right here on my book shelves, choose several [...]
Aesop’s Fables Copywork
Aesop’s Fables are (some of them) longer than Mother Goose Rhymes (ahem, some of them). When you are using longer passages for copywork, assign only PART of the passage each day. Here are the Fables. Just copy and paste them into the form of your choosing on the WorksheetWorks site. Then print out some of [...]
Mother Goose Copywork
Last week I found a wonderful site for making your own copywork pages. It’s called WorksheetWorks and the page I am thrilled to the bone about is the Handwriting Practice page. I was looking for a way to make math copywork pages where I could put each fact and then have a nice line, including the [...]
Custom Cross Stitch Pattern Maker
I just found three sites that are gonna come in so handy when my kids get married and start having children. Babies are the only reason to cross stitch. Really. Here are all the nursery rhymes. Here is the cross stitch pattern maker for the text. Here is the cross stitch pattern maker for the [...]
Printer Friendly Copywork
This is a long post (for me), but read the whole thing, it’s fascinating! I just did this myself and was so smitten with the results that I wanted to make sure that y’all know how to do it. “What did you do Mother Hen?” Y’all’re so sweet to ask! (betcha never saw the double [...]
Chicks Ahoy!
Now, y’all know I love raising chicks, but it’s such a relief to have them grow up big enough to live outside. The Black Sex-Links are older than the Golden Comets, but not by too much. They’ve lived separately up until today. Today they all moved into the little chicken coop out in the wide [...]
How to make pizza without going in the kitchen
We had pizza for supper last night. Delicious, homemade pizza. The best pizza I’ve had in a long, long time. And I didn’t touch it until it was ready to eat. I had another headache yesterday. They come every afternoon, and they’re bad. Incapacitating. Spring allergies. It’s horrible. All that to say, I was not inclined [...]
