Home School Lessons: Practical Math

It seemed like many of the homeschooling parents I heard of were having their children make lunch or dinner as part of their home school day. I thought it was a little strange, but I understood that there was definitely teaching opportunities in the practice. This week, my daughter and I have been making cookies […]

A Simple Home Cook

When my mom was mostly living with me after she got very sick toward the end of her life, she was on a restricted diet to try and save her kidney function.  My sister had made her up frozen meals for when she lived alone and I had taken some of them to my house […]

Cake Baking Discoveries

My husband made me a birthday cake this year. It was a big deal just because he normally doesn’t do anything for birthdays, anniversaries, mother’s day, father’s day. . .well, you get the idea. He had made me a couple of b-day cakes in the past, but those were in the first few years of […]