Cooking
FALL IS HERE! FALL IS HERE! Where we live it’s a
little cooler than it normally is in the summer, but still warm enough for
shorts and T-shirts. None of that stops me from cooking fall foods though. I’ve
been making soups, hearty meat and vegetable dishes, and pumpkin flavored
things for the past week like crazy. Here are our favorites from each category:
Cheesy Chicken Chowder, Roast Chicken with Veggies, and Pumpkin Butterscotch Muffins.
Reading
My lack of non-fiction reading is over! I’m
currently in the middle of an amazing book about the women who worked in Oak
Ridge, Tennessee at a secret government factory enriching uranium for the
atomic bomb. It’s so interesting to read about these women who were called upon
to do something for the war (they were not told what) because almost all of the
men were fighting. It’s called The Girls
of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win WWII.
Definitely worth your time if you are interested in that era at all.
Listening
To the dog breathing deeply on the floor beside me
and Chipette’s low voice coming from her room where she is making an American
Girl movie with her dolls using my phone.
Thinking
About how well our homeschool is going right now.
I’ve been adjusting and tweaking the past few weeks with scheduling and this
week has been perfect.
Planning
We are leaving town this weekend for Corpus
Christi, so I’m planning laundry that needs to be washed and what needs to be
packed. Yippee for a mini-family vacation!
Pinning
Feel free to follow me on Pinterest using the
button in the sidebar. I wanted to share some of my favorite finds this past
week:
Homeschool: I am determined to be more consistent
with nature study this year. When we do it the kids enjoy it so much! I quickly
pinned this link to free nature study printables to get us started.
Home: I pinned this super cute, super affordable,
and super functional idea for storing books. I can’t wait to buy a dish-drying
rack.
Cooking: Chipette and I adore Panera Bread’s
tomato soup, so I’ve been trying to find a good homemade tomato soup. The few
recipes I’ve tried have been total fails. My good friend, Beauty Queen, sent me
this pin for a spicy tomato soup. Beauty Queen loves to cook too, so I know she
won’t steer me wrong. I can’t wait to try it!
Loving
Our new homeschool group. The homeschool group we’ve
participated in the past two years is taking a break this year because of
busyness in all the mom’s lives, but a new group started up in our hometown. It
has been such a blessing to know that there are quite a few homeschoolers here
in our neck of the woods instead of driving 30 miles to our other group.
Remembering
A couple of weeks ago we finally got Magpie signed
up for taekwondo. She made the decision at the end of ballet last year that she
wanted to do something different this year. She wanted to go from ballerina to
being Mulan, a fighting girl! It fits her personality perfectly. Here she is at
her first class:
Looking forward to a new week of productivity,
loving, learning, laughing and cooking in the tree house,
Chelli
LOVE the book storage idea. I'm curious to see if it would work to use a dish-drying rack or if the books would fall through the cracks. Hurry and get this one done and post the results so I can copy you!!! :)
ReplyDeleteI already have a spot for it in my living room and want to designate it for library books only so they don't get scattered all over the house.
I thought about the cracks and I was going to cover a piece of sturdy cardboard with some funky fabric and place that over the bottom so that it would be a solid surface. It will probably be a few weeks before I do it though.
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