Month: September 2009
Family
Homeschooling
my story
Another homeschooling year
So, yes… another homeschooling year has begun. We’ve already had the usual variety of commitments — planned and unplanned, absences and extra-curricular activities: some sick, some tardy, some cutting class (uh, that would be two of the teachers :-O ), etc., etc. Three days into the new school year: We’ve already had to revise our […]...
Family
In the Kitchen
Recipes
Aebelskivers
My husband’s birthday was on Tuesday — we began the day’s celebration with aebelskivers for breakfast for him! I make aebelskivers for special breakfasts — but sometimes, when it seems it’s been ‘awhile’ since I made them, someone will ask for them for breakfast (or dinner!). We serve them with powdered sugar (as you see […]...
In the Kitchen
MM Fondant
I’m learning to make some pretty smooth fondant for wedding cakes — well, any cake, actually! This is so easy to make and tastes so nice, I can’t figure out why I ever bought “ready-made” fondant! Not to mention the price. Okay, I will. The cost to make fondant is *significantly* less than the retail […]...
NewsDuJour
Political stuff
Did you say Change or CHAINS?
The words on one protester’s sign. They say a picture’s worth a thousand words… millions around the country have gathered, spoken out, marched, in protest of the snowballing debt, sweeping policy changes (chains), etc., etc. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in peaceful protest this past weekend. Dozens of issues were being protested by people […]...
Potpourri
So… things are working…
It feels like we’ve been in a sort of relay with changing and adding and moving our domains to a new account. I now have a ton of catch-up work to do on the A Christian Home website, the Welcome Home Company Store website the A Bella Cake website and this blog! In many ways, […]...