Kicking Off The School Year Right!
Lesson plans done. Check! Schoolbooks organized and tucked neatly on the shelf. Check! Pencils...
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Tag: food
Thanksgiving Activities For Your Homeschool
Thanksgiving is one of our household’s favorite holidays. It’s a great time to come...
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Cowabunga!
By Deanne Crawford, Rainbow Resource Consultant Celebrated annually, the origins of National Cow...
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Go-to breakfast ideas
What does your breakfast routine look like? Is it a free for all, a mega-ordeal, or planned-to-the-T process? Regardless of your style, if you are looking for a bit of breakfast inspiration, here are several of my go-to ideas.
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Ringing in the New Year Around the World
New Year’s resolutions, singing Auld Lang Syne at the stroke of midnight or watching the Times Square ball drop. Are any of these traditions ones you find yourself doing year after year? We might not think of these as “traditions.” Maybe because we just barely made it through Thanksgiving and Christmas we don’t want to go labeling New Year’s eve or New Year’s day a holiday.
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2 Easy Holiday Recipes
The holidays are in full swing. I have a few recipes that I only use this time of year. I wanted to share them with you. They are all easy and delicious. You can make these recipes any time of year though.
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Food Traditions of Christmas
It doesn’t matter where you live on the globe, food is central to celebrations. The food may look different from place to place and celebration to celebration, but the Christmas celebration has some great food traditions. In Mexico you might eat tamales – time-consuming to make, so always a treat for Christmas.
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Homemade Applesauce
When we go apple picking we don’t buy a ton. We get enough to make a batch of homemade applesauce as well as one apple pie (per my husband’s request). We do a little study about apples ahead of time so my boys know how apples grow and such. We have a lot of fun with it.
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Dinner’s in the freezer
It’s almost that time of year again. Can you feel it? The temperatures are dropping a bit, school supplies are taking over the stores, and calendars are starting to fill up with events. Yes, fall is coming and so is what I call “The Crazy Season.”
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7 easy and energizing lunches for your homeschool day
One homeschooling perk is that I do not have to worry about packing lunches for the kids each school day. Packing lunches drives me nuts. When we plan a day trip, picnic or long weekend away from home, I tend to get stressed out trying to figure out what I’m going to pack for lunches.
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Simple electric pressure cooker recipes for summer
With the heat of the summer kicking into high gear in my neck of the woods (Virginia), I am sharing some easy recipes that will not heat up your whole house. Last time I shared slow cooker recipes. This week I will share some of my favorite electric pressure cooker recipes.
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Simple slow cooker recipes for beating the summer heat
Living in the south during the summer can be very brutal. I live in Virginia and can tell you that the heat index gets into the 120’s on the hottest of days. I don’t like running the oven in the summer unless absolutely necessary. So, I resort to using my slow cooker, electric pressure cooker, or the grill.
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