Happy Halloween! At midnight tonight I will be involved in a very scary activity. I will be at the Wal-Mart purchasing Halloween candy for half price with my Mom and Grandma. All year long at our mission, we give kids a piece of candy for each Bible verse they can recite before the service starts. It's amazing how much kids will learn for candy. I figure the good...
Friday, October 31, 2014
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Best Laundry Detergent Recipe
I have experimented for years with making my own laundry soap. I started making it because my youngest, Amy Grace, has eczema and regular detergents were causing her to itch and break out. I started out making the liquid kind, but I got tired of the boiling and stirring jello-like detergent.
Now I make the dry kind. It is much easier to make, store, and pour. It...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Teaching Good Character
Need some ideas for teaching character traits to your young ones? If you're like me, you might be noticing that your little ones have trouble obeying or sharing at times. I started thinking about why I home school and realized that the biggest reason is to raise Godly children who will grow into adults others want to be around. Yet many times, those ideals get lost in the shuffle...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe
This is the recipe for one of my family's favorite soups. I also quadruple the recipe and serve it to people at the mission in a giant crock pot. I don't think I've ever had anyone say they didn't like it, and that is something when you're dealing with kids. Enjoy this comfort food on a cool autumn night.
2-12.5 oz. cans of Chicken
5- 10.5 oz cans of Cream of Chicken Soup
1 or 2...
Monday, October 27, 2014
Meet Marmee
Hello, I’m
Marmee. My whole family adores Little
House on the Prairie and Little Women. We love the books, the movie, the television
series; we love it all. Since we also
have four daughters like the families in these books, I thought it would be fitting
to name this blog “Little Women on the Prairie.”
In the past
I have taught middle school language arts in a public...
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