Summer Learning Fun

While our family does year-round school, I do like to make it a little more relaxed and with a little more fun to it once warm weather comes around. Here are a few things that we’ve either done so far or have on the list for this year. My 2 older children have just this [...]

Authentic Guacamole

Authentic guacamole…? Is there such a thing? Try doing a Google search and you’ll find that there are many different ways to make guacamole. There is not one “recipe” that is “authentic“. But from what I found there are a few basic ingredients in all guacamole. It seems that real guacamole does not contain sour [...]

Strawberry Lemonade

I recently ate out with a friend at a nice restaurant and enjoyed a nice tall glass of strawberry lemonade…that is until I got the bill! A glass of strawberry lemonade cost $4.oo a glass! For some reason it had never occurred to me to make my own at home…until now. And I’m not talking [...]

Christian Romance Novels Revisited

A couple years ago on my old blog I wrote this post on the Dangers of Christian Romance Novels. I then felt compelled to re-post it again last year. While I was going over old posts in my old blog to eventually close it down, I noted I had several comments I had failed to [...]

Effects of Red Dye

I recently shared on my Facebook that I had noticed disturbing behavior in our children after 2 days of drinking red Hawaiian Fruit Punch. I got so many comments, that I thought I would share my comments here. This is not a scientific discussion, but rather a heads up to hopefully encourage you to do [...]

Linky Love

I don’t get much time these days to keep up with all the blogs I tag and bookmark, but occasionally when I’m down physically, I do enjoy more computer time. Here are some blog posts that I found helpful or interesting recently. I stumbled across this blog post when I googled “large family reality shows” [...]