If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feedI copied these from my facebook profile “Favorite Quotes” section. I could add a ton more, but in keeping with the general, over-all tone of the thing… LESS IS MORE. “Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Makin’ Do category.
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 [...]
Home hatched chickens – take 2
You may have noticed that I mentioned KimC had been incubating some chicken eggs for us. Well, not her personally, she’s far too busy for that. She was using an incubator. She and her kids were trying to hatch some eggs. Some from our chickens, some from their chickens. They had a couple of incidents [...]
Grateful
It hasn’t rained a drop here in months. Today we got a deluge, including a tornado scare. It was near. I saw it on the radar. We made what preparations I could think of. put the dogs in their crates put all the chicken feeders into the garage so they don’t get fouled by the rain [...]
Wholesome ‘Mater Soup
I haven’t been to the grocery lately. I’m so excited about our move that I haven’t even thought about it. Can’t remember what day I had thought I would go, but we’re starting to run really low on some things. The milk is gone. I haven’t made bread yet this week. Cheese is at a [...]
Sally Mae Cooks! Trail Mix Bar Cookies
This post is linked to Tempt My Tummy Tuesday. I am shocked! Shocked, I say, at the lack of response to this lovely weekly linky of mine! I have to tell you, you don’t know what you’re missing out on if you aren’t teaching a child to cook! Sally Mae and I have the best [...]
Redneck Heating Pad
Because something like this is just not redneck enough… And besides, my redneck heating pad is down-right frugal! And I bet you have all the materials already on hand! You’ll need: 1 bandanna 1 pony tail holder 2 cups of either wheat berries or rice (still dry and uncooked) Lay out the bandanna, maybe drape it over [...]
Math! Something Worked!
Have you been following my math saga? I must be getting old. I don’t think I had such drama teaching the older kids their math. Especially on Mondays. Especially on Mondays after having taken any time off for illness or any reason. Do any of y’all have that problem too? Grrr! I have started to [...]
Potatoes and Ham – YUMMY!
I set out to make some Macaroni and Cheese on Wednesday, but it just so happens that I was woefully low on cheese. New plan needed. And what with all the green, hairy STRESS from Rowdy gettin’ all hurt I really had a hard time processing the fact that I had some ham in the [...]
My new-fangled, triangled flash-cards
Well, I did it. I made some triangular math flash cards. I thought about buying them, but, couldn’t make myself spend money on something I knew I could easily make with stuff I already had on hand. But before I got out the poster board and scissors I looked at some pictures of ‘em to [...]
