Let’s Talk Food and your Packed Cupboards

With all of the snow flying in the Northeast- I have decided to come indoors!
Let’s be domestic today and talk about your food in your kitchen and pantry. I have so much food but never anything to eat or cook for dinner.
Today, I am thinking about going through my entire cupboards and pantries and [...]

Over the Edge

Yesterday created quite a stir in America with the whole Obama speech to school children. I don’t usually talk politics because of the emotion that it creates within people, but I am passionate about children getting an education and the benefits thereof. His talk brought out the best of that for me-bottom [...]

Fall Schedule- Set in Stone

Schedules. School. Classes.  Everything is about to start!  I am almost excited again as we ease into the new year.
 
I have made a couple of changes this year, that I think are going to be dynamite.
 
Announcing the 2009-2010 School Year Theme:
 

 
Hillary is registered at our local Community College and will be taking 3 classes this [...]

Partly Cloudy and 69 Degrees

Our temperatures have been hanging in the very low numbers this summer with a rain shower nearly every other day.  I have been pulling out out of my bag of tricks, all of my indoor activities  to keep everyone happy, since swimming and sunscreen are not even an option this season.  I’m not complaining though, [...]

Good for Your Mind Summer List

So many literary figures, so little time.  New England is jam packed with Hawthorne, Emerson, Alcott, Thoreau and the list goes on…..Every summer I like to take in a few enriching sites, so …….
As a little refresher my requirements for summer activities must meet my criteria of

Good for the mind
Uplifting the spirit
Enriching the soul

Each list [...]

This idea meets my qualification for aTypical in education

Oh little blog I have missed you so much!  I generally get up every morning and write for the sake of clearing the mind.  I have had so much on my plate, that I have missed a couple of days and I can’t wait to type and clear my head right now.  
 
So we have [...]

Be Still Soul….Be Still

Be Still!  
 
Now that I have rattled and shook the house upside down, by revealing my “shock and awe” plans for more global experiences, and a possible semester in Chile.   I have decided that I would rest awhile, and be still.  I promised myself, after our last 6 weeks of travel this semester that, [...]

My Bags are Packed, I am ready to Go!

Yesterday, while I should have been de-cluttering (I did clean out two drawers and planted a bazillion annuals), I walked down to pickup my newspaper and ran across this article in the Life Section of the USA today, and lo and behold, there was an article on a book review by Maya Frost The New [...]

Endings and Beginnings!

When did June become as busy as December and we still have two weeks until school is finished? Lots has been going on here at the homestead in terms of endings, and I am already drumming up in my mind, all of the beginnings I am going to start for myself, while I have [...]

Opportunity Knocks!

Last Thursday, I am just sitting home minding my own little East Coast business, when I received a call from the Associate Dean of Brigham Young University’s -College of Family, Home and Social Science, from which I graduated, not once but twice!
May I say, this invite was quite a little shocker, completely unexpected and [...]