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We spent our weekend celebrating Emelie's birthday and painting the girls' bedroom. I'm very pleased with how it's turning out. It won't be "done" for a while as Bryan is making built-in bunk beds, but I'll try to post some "almost after" photos later this week.
Bryan also blessed me by replacing my "second-string" washer and dryer. Since it was delivered yesterday, the children have been so excited to do laundry that I'm beginning to suspect that clean clothes are getting washed! They had to pull Rubbermaid totes up from the basement because we ran out of laundry baskets to hold all the clean clothes. I guess this is a good problem to have?!
On this week's menu:
Monday - BBQ Chicken, Mashed Potatoes
Tuesday (Horse Judging) - Eggs Benedict, Grits
Wednesday (AWANA) - Hot Dogs, Chips
Thursday (Homeschool Group, Karate)- Franks & Beans, Cherry Cake
Friday (Bible Study)
Saturday - Beef Manhattens, Orange Cake
Our menus for past years can be found at our website. Breakfast menu is here; lunch menu is here.
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Last week I linked to an ingenious way to turn diaper boxes into decorative storage. Thanks to Hunter, I ended up with an empty box just the other day. Today, in less than an hour, I turned that Walmart diaper box into this:
This replaces two plastic bins that hold our materials for Cocoa Time and our Character Study. Very excited! I'm seeing all kinds of potential, and I even had a brainstorm for the girls' room (stay tuned!). I didn't have the spray adhesive called for in the tutorial, but the children's glue stick worked just fine!
A powerful earthquake struck New Zealand's already-bruised city of Christchurch on Tuesday, collapsing buildings, burying vehicles under debris and sending rescuers scrambling to help trapped people amid reports of multiple deaths.
CurrClick and several publishers have teamed up to raise funds to aid those affected by this earthquake. They have a new bundle of great products available now.
The bundle includes over $230.00 worth of items from our publishers and can be purchased for a $20.00 donation. 100% of all proceeds for the bundle go to the New Zealand Red Cross.
The bundle included download curriculum like Apologia lapbooks, Shakespeare, Math, Copywork, Online Music Lessons, and Monthly Meal Planners. What a great way to help out and have some new resources!
My beautiful baby is a young lady of 15 today. She is such a joy to us. Not only is she one of the smartest people I know, she's bust-a-gut funny. She I rely on her so much to keep this place going and she does it with such a generous heart.
Sadly she isn't feeling well today. She even asked me to postpone her favorite dinner. We'll just have to celebrate her even more this upcoming weekend!
The temperatures here last week were such a tease. Made us all excited for spring. Now it is 33 degrees and raining. The rain and melted snow have made our house an island in a sea of mud. When the girls go to the barn to take care of the animals, they get quite the workout with having to lift their boots from ankle-deep mud with every step. Anyone want to come visit the farm now? Ahhh, charm of the country!
Bryan and I will be painting the girls' bathroom after little ones are in bed this week. I'm giddy-excited about getting color on the walls! What to do in the living room? Taking suggestions....
On this week's menu:
Monday - Garden Quiche, Cinnamon Rolls, Sausage
Tuesday (Horse Judging) - Sweet & Sour Meatballs (sub frozen meatballs for the smoke sausage in the recipe), Rice, Apple Pudding
Wednesday (EMELIE'S 15TH BIRTHDAY!!, AWANA) - Sausage Braid (If you haven't tried it yet, you're missing out!)
Thursday (Karate)- Dropped Biscuits & Ham, Pistachio Salad
Friday (Roller Skating Party and Bible Study)
Saturday - Potato Sausage Casserole, Scrambled Eggs
Our menus for past years can be found at our website. Breakfast menu is here; lunch menu is here.
Find more menus at:
We've lived in our home for five years. It's about time we started looking like we intend to stay.
First on the list of fix-ups is the girls' room.We finally found an idea that appealed to four young ladies ages 4 to 14 no easy task). We hoped to get the painting started, but the Wallies flowers we wanted to use are not available for purchase in the greater Indianapolis area (and I have 128 miles on the car to prove it!). Amazon order being placed tonight...
Here are the "before" pictures. Perhaps a nicely decorated room will inspire them to be a smidge neater???
Check out this wonderful tutorial on re-purposing diaper boxes. The only thing that bums me out is how many boxes I've recycled before now! Don't have diaper boxes? I know some of you out there with more than one amazon box lying around...
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