Beauty in the Ordinary
Sweet Pea is in charge of making bread, and her little shadow is never far away. Here is our bread recipe. It took about 20 bricks to finally get to this loaf that rises nicely and stays nice and moist. It works best in our Zojirushi bread machine. Sweet Pea affectionately calls it “brick #13” because it was fashioned after… Read More
I love these pictures of Sweet Pea mopping the kitchen in anticipation of Easter. There was a big push last week to scrub and clean as much as we could. I HATE mopping, and really, does one need to mop?? I say no. A simple paper towel spot clean-up does just fine. But, I can’t deny that a mopped floor… Read More
Today I was talking to Mom on the phone. Nothing special, I just felt like chatting. Anyone with children knows what happened next. Peanut decided he was famished. Now, this child refuses to eat a square meal, preferring instead to graze and munch throughout the day. He’s 2 – the world is opening up to him – so I cut… Read More
It’s Thursday, and I wanted to show you all my little baking zone, but it’s gloomy here, and pictures just don’t look as nice. Maybe next week. Instead I think I’ll show the schoolroom update. We’re going Montessori. We’re going….not there yet though! Peanut needs some activities accessible to him – Sparkly really needs some motor skill development. I love… Read More
Well, I started gathering things from the 4 corners of the house last night – phone numbers and addresses stashed on little pieces of paper, a brochure from our organic beef supplier, receipts, etc. to file in our new home management binder. As I was gathering, I realized – oh our budgets that I keep should probably be there, and… Read More
I think I might have mentioned in an earlier post that I’ve been trying to put something like this together for about a year now. I just couldn’t visualize what I wanted to put in it. So, I had loose ends everywhere. I knew it didn’t make sense, but how to fix it eluded me…until now. Kim at Starry Sky… Read More
I’m excited to have found a weblog from a great Catholic family – mom of 9 – describing in exquisite detail a home management book that I’ve been trying to make for some time now. Ever since Mom got me that great Kimberly Hahn CD set from St. Joseph’s I have been trying to piece together in my mind what… Read More
Today seems much better. I always feel refreshed after a good nights sleep. I started early this morning, went through all of Peanut’s clothes – weeding the “too small” and adding some new, old stuff from Sparkle’s stores of outgrown clothes. All the kids had a bath – everything always seems better when the kids smell sweet! Rooms were tidied…. Read More
