4th of July… what does it mean to you?

  I woke up Sunday morning and got ready for church. Normally we go to the Saturday night service, but this week we chose the busy 9:30 Sunday morning service at the Heights. When we arrived,  to a FULL parking lot where we even had to park out on the dirt… not caring as we [...]

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

Homemade Laundry Soap – 3rd batch made!

3rd batch DONE! WOWWIE! I can not believe that we are in April and I am still on my initial $30 investment on soap. Here is the recipe ALL OVER AGAIN! ENJOY and hopefully you can see the savings that we have. This batch, we added an extra gallon of water to the mixture and [...]

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

Revisiting Garlic

If you have been following our blog for a while, you know how important it is for us to have a garden. We love fresh produce and it helps off-set the cost in the summer, not to mention that we eat every night during the summer months with at least one thing from our garden [...]

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

And so it begins… the quest for less dirt in the yard!

I LOVE my house. It is big enough for everyone! We have a schoolroom, I have a studio. There are 4 bedrooms and a TON of land for us… however, the land is all dirt. I want plants and trees to bring birds and butterflies and bees…. My amazing husband has been put out on [...]

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Planting Pineapples? Fun Homeschool Project!

One day I came across a youtube video about growing your own pineapple plants… We just HAD to try. This week there were bulk pineapples on our bountiful basket and we picked up not 1 but 2 cases. After we dried 1 case, we decided to try and plant a few. What a blast we [...]

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