Kitty Yoga - The Somersault Freeze

Chili for a Chilly Day

Well, it's a chilly day for Texas anyway.  

I adapted this from a recipe for Venison Chili using hamburger instead.






Saute:
1 or 2 lbs of beef
1 chopped onion
2 cloves garlic

Mix in a bowl:
1 t salt
1/2 t pepper
1 t sage
1 t cumin
2 T chili powder


Add this mixture and the following to the cooked meat:
1 quart of tomato juice
2 cans of kidney beans.


Simmer for one hour or so.


My husband likes it, even with the beans.

Baking Ingredients

I bake bread, cookies, pizza, cake, cinnamon rolls, pancakes and waffles using four kinds of sugar, a dozen types of flour and oatmeal.  I organized my most used baking ingredients in these retro canisters I purchase on ebay.   Everything is labeled and easy to find.

A Muffin a Day

I measure one cup of pumpkin puree into a sandwich bag.

Next, I put all the sandwich bags with puree into a freezer bag.

When I want to make muffins, I thaw out one sandwich bag.

Cut the tip of the bag off with a scissors and squeeze out the puree like toothpaste.

After I make my muffins, I store them in pint sized freezer bags for a  Muffin a Day.

Putting up the Harvest

This year we grew corn, cauliflower, summer squash, butternut squash, pumpkin, and green beans which we froze.  I canned spaghetti sauce (with tomatoes, green peppers, oregano, basil, and onions from the garden), bread and butter pickles, icicle pickles, and sweet relish.

Who can repent?

"Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good  person can repent perfectly.  The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it.  The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person -- and he would not need it."  C.S. Lewis

Lasagna

made with whole wheat noodles, homemade spaghetti sauce and organic ground beef.

What to do after First Language Lessons?

We loved First Language Lessons by Susan Wise Bauer and used these books for four years.  After we finished them all, we switched to Rod & Staff for grammar.  But this curriculum had no poetry memorization.   I found out about Andrew Pudewa's Linguistic Development Through Poetry Memorization and we have been following it, in theory anyway, for the last two years.  However, many of the poems are the same and the charts in this new curriculum don't coincide with what we have done.  So I made my own schedule and put it in an Excel document, which you can download here.   


Pick your poems.  Work on them one by one.  As one  is memorized, start another, but recite the first one everyday as well.  As soon as the student can say it in his/her sleep, have him/her recite it every other day and then every third day as more and more poems are memorized.  Don't hurry, take your time and have fun.

  

Nine Ingredients for Salad

The more colors in the vegetables you eat, the more diverse the nutrients you are ingesting. Good for you!

I have this list on my refrigerator which reminds me to get as many vegetables into our salads as possible. I check the list constantly while making our salads. My house is loaded with finicky eaters, so everyone gets one custom made.

"Sugar Pie" Pumpkin Muffins

I found a recipe that uses honey and whole wheat flour for these muffins. The "Sugar Pie" pumpkins in the background are from our garden. They are the perfect size to cut in half and cook in the steamer.

Horseback Riding on Texas Bess

We have incorporated horseback riding into our school lessons. My son let me ride for about five minutes. The photo is of me on the horse that lives in our pasture. We finally learned how to ride her when my sister-in-law came for a visit. She loves horses and has six of them, so she is quite the expert. Thank you Lorrie.

8 Vegetable Soup

1. Tomato juice from garden tomatoes
2. onion
3. celery
4. carrots
5. potatoes
6. green beans
7. yellow squash
8. corn
9. spices - garlic, basil, oregano, thyme
10. a little bit of sugar

Gluten free pizza

My sister-in-law is visiting this weekend and eats gluten free. I made this gluten free pizza for her. It was very tasty.

Cute Little Recipe Books

Most of the recipes I use or are collecting I copied onto index cards either from the internet or from my cookbooks.

I used a Rollabind hole puncher and discs so I can move the recipes around or add to them.

"Selective Bible reading involves using the right bait when you troll the Scriptures." Howard Hendricks

On these index cards are six 'lures' that you can use with any text, six questions to ask any passage of Scripture from Howard Hendricks' Living by the Book.

I have a copy of these in my Bible. As we are going through the book of Matthew in our study of the Life of Christ, I ask these questions and write them down in our journal. The next day before we read the next section, we review by seeing if we remember the answers. If not, we look them up.

I have it printed on an index card and you can download a copy of it here.

We are on chapter 17 and it is the sixth week of school.

Bible Study is our favorite subject.

Living by the Book by Howard G. Hendricks and William D. Hendricks. Moody Press, Chicago, 1991.

Dog daz

Only when I say so may you pick up your pencil and begin writing.....

Art Journals

We have not spent much time with art. This year we are keeping art journals together. We try to do a little something everyday.

I checked out art books from the library for inspiration.