Tag Archive | homemaking
How many books do you have?
I have over 1500 children’s books. I know because in the late 90s, I was teaching and, imagining the future children I hoped to have, collecting books mostly via the Scholastic book clubs I sent home with my students, and I created a database of all of ones I had then. They numbered 1500 then. [...]
new desks!
We have made good progress painting the rooms in our house. The blue room, aka George (as in Weasley*), the room formerly known as the dining room, is pretty much done. Robert really worked hard on the dark blue below the chair rail, which required several coats for good coverage. He struggled with the chair [...]
Ode to an Apple after 2 days
A long, long time ago, in a former life (when I was somewhere around age 13 perhaps), I came across a little poem — or did I write it? — that went something like… …promise me you will never sit under the Apple IIe with anyone else but me… I remember laughing about it with [...]
Postaday #37
Could you live without the internet for a week? For a month? Well, I have lived without the internet for week. It was difficult, but I survived. I do have plenty of things I’d like to do. Most of my favorite things do use the internet — photography, scrapbooking, reading, studying, getting inspired, and communicating [...]
Improved Chicken & Gravy Over Mashed Potatoes
When I was in elementary school, sometimes I bought lunch. I seem to recall it was 45 cents. What a deal! It was a fun treat to me, something different and therefore special. One of my favorite dishes they served is something I think would look gross to me today. It was Turkey and Gravy [...]
Friday Fill In
#196 So…here we go! 1. One of my strongest beliefs is _that children deserve to be respected, not treated as lesser people_. 2. _We have two spiders decorating our house right now that are_ huge! 3. The sky is cloudy with a threat of rain and wind and cold, so _I am grateful I do [...]
game shelves
I’ve been doing a lot of reorganization in the last couple of weeks. It’s like a bug I caught, that put in me in the mood. I think it’s passing. Today I only picked up some messes Ian made, and I’ve neglected the dishes all day while relaxing and enjoying a rare stay at home [...]
Friday Fill In #191
#191 And…here we go! 1. You do your thing; I do mine and sometimes _we’ll admire each others work_. 2. _Our new busy schedule_ is what’s been on my mind on and off all day. 3. Remember when _the hardest decision was whether to go to the beach or the pool, just a few weeks [...]
Beginnings
We’re off to a good start for the academic year. First of all, last night I thoroughly cleaned off the table and desk the kids use in the family room. The desk is completely bare, ready for new projects. Rhiannon worked a lot on piano today. She hasn’t had a lesson yet, but she has [...]
Dishwasher Demoted
Introducing… the machine formerly known as Dishwasher. It no longer deserves that name. Something called a dishwasher ought to produce clean dishes more often than not. I am a tolerant person. I am understanding. The machine is 14 years old, after all. But I have put up with its shoddy work long enough! Today, I [...]
