Over the years, I’ve tried MANY SOUR CREAM RAISIN pies and this one is by far our family favorite. My dad LOVES this pie. He was my taste tester years ago when I first set out to find a recipe that we would like. Some were baked, some had meringue …

Another family favorite. We LOVE the tasted of roasted coconut on the meringue of this pie. Nathan doesn’t like it when I make this pie because the beaters make too much noise while whipping the meringe. This recipe is from Harvest Time Pies recipe booklet by Pillsbury and now it’s …

Myspace Layouts WHAT’S FOR DINNER? We are having quite a variety! I’m posting the menu now and as we make our dishes I plan to upload pictures of the process and the finished product! Some people have asked me how we do the Rainbow Jello.. it’s so easy, but I …

DINNER’S SERVED!! A few months ago one of my friends …. …introduced me to Dinner’s Served… a place where you can go to prepare home cooked meals. They do all of the cutting, chopping, cleaning, gathering, measuring, etc. You go home with an entire cooler full of WONDERFUL meals to …

CONSTITUTION STUDY: Emily enjoyed reading these three little books to Nathan. They are such CUTE little books. These are stories about the three branches of government told by mice. We read the White House mouse book last year before we went to the White House while in DC last year. …

We had a special visit from three Revolutionary War soliders at co-op one day! The main goal of our co-op is to “enhance and reinforce” our at-home studies. There’s nothing like a LIVE re-enactment to fulfill that goal. Later in the day, Josh’s class split in 1/2. 1/2 were tories …

We didn’t spend much time on this week because we were still finishing up things from our 3 week colonial study. We did read this one book outloud though. Josh took a real interest in guns of the time period and decided to do some research on flint lock guns …

These posts are a little late, but here we go. In Sept we studied the Northern, Middle, and Southern colonies. It was fun to look back through pictures of our vacation from last year to the east coast which you can look at by clicking on the vacation label to …

RETURN OF THE CURSOR!For those who notice little tiny details I FINALLY figured out how to add this cursor back to my blog. I had it before I switched to beta and then couldn’t get the smiley icon moved to the sidebar until today. It kept wanting to place itself …

NATHAN: Here are some misc pictures of Nathan. This is a picture of him with his blanket which he takes to co-op. He’s never been a blanket carrying kid, but he likes this one and we leave it in our co-op rolling cart so he has it every week. One …