A Sort of Rambling Kind of Post

I can't believe it's Thursday already. This week seems to have gone by very quickly! We've had lots of little things going on.

There's all the usual stuff: homeschool, laundry, cleaning, cooking...We had friends over for dinner on Tuesday night. Good friends + tacos = great fun!!...My hubby got our leaky bathtub faucet all repaired. He is so smart! He watched several videos online about how to do it and then he DID it. The funny (or not-so-funny) part was this: we have a gift card to Home Depot and planned to use it so the repair wouldn't cost anything. But wouldn't you know, Home Depot didn't have any of the parts that we needed. He had to go to Lowe's. How ironic is that? Anyway, I was pretty proud of him for doing it all himself and very efficiently, too. No more leaky bathtub faucet! Yea!

I made Amish Friendship Bread for the first time this week. I've had two friends give me starter lately. Although I must admit I killed the first batch--I forgot she gave it to me and left it in my car for days. Oops! The second batch was very successful and now I have more starter. Have any of you every made it before? Several years ago I had sourdough starter and was baking bread like crazy. We made a move though and I killed my starter. I really wish I had that now! It was wonderful bread, and so versatile!

Tonight is our small group night. Some of you may remember that my hubby & I host a small group for young married couples twice a month in our home. They are such a blessing to us! We love having them over and it's always a lot of fun. Vince usually has something prepared for us to discuss, sometimes we do a series. (For instance, a couple of months ago we wrapped up our study on Deadly Viper Character Assassins. That is an incredible book on character and integrity! The authors wrote it using an Asian/kung-fu sort of theme, so men love it!). Some nights we play games and just have a good time. We always have good food, too. Tonight's meal plan is soups, salad & baked potatoes. Each couple makes/brings a part of the meal. Tonight I'll be baking the potatoes and making Creamy Cheddar Soup.

Well, I think I've rambled on enough for today, it's time to land this plane! I'll be back with more later.

Have a great day!

The Making of an Egyptian Death Mask

We are learning all about the ancient world this year with Story of the World I and loving it! We've been learning a lot about Egypt, of course, which is completely fascinating. Most recently we have studied the New Kingdom of Egypt, which includes the story of King Tut. So we decided making an Egyptian death mask in the style of King Tut's would be a fun project. First since it was too cold at the time to paper mache in the garage (it probably would have frozen instead of dried-ha) and it was too messy to do it in the house, we decided to pick up a couple of cheap craft masks at Hobby Lobby. Next we cut out cardboard shapes to complete the shape of the death mask, attaching them with hot glue. Vince even put a little detail on the *beard* with the hot glue per The Princess' request. Then the kiddos started to paint them with this metallic gold tempera paint. It worked okay for the cardboard, but would not coat the plastic of the mask. We thought maybe a second coat ...

Door Hanger Chore Charts

My kids have had a chore chart for a while. It's one of those magnetic boards and they share it. However, it's not by their rooms and often they (and I) forget to update it. Plus it's a little bulky. When I saw the concept of a door hanger chore chart on Pinterest, I loved it! It was compact, right there were the kiddos could see it coming out and going into their rooms, and it costs almost nothing to make. I headed over to one of my favorite stores: Hobby Lobby, of course. They have these little wooden door hangers for .79. I also grabbed a couple of packets of decorative buttons for $1.99 each. I already had the clothes pins and the paint so those cost me nothing. I began by painting the door hangers (I used tempera paints because that's what I had). Then I grabbed a fine point Sharpie and the clothes pins and started writing chores on them, making sure to write them correctly so they will ...

Making Notebooks

Recently I tried out a new craft idea~and it was SO much fun!! And extremely frugal, too. That's always a bonus, right? So here we go: 1. Take your basic composition notebook (purchased at the back-to-school sales for .99 each). 2. Go to your craft supplies and get your Mod Podge ready, along with a good paintbrush. 3. Look through all those scrapbook papers you've been randomly collecting and choose some. 3. After choosing your paper for the cover of your book and trimming it to fit, start *painting* the cover with the glue. Next, give the back of your paper a good coat of glue, too. (I left the binding uncovered so that I could use a contrasting paper there later on). 4. Glue it on! Remember to smooth out any air bubbles under the paper. 5. Flip the cover open and make a few cuts on the corners so that they will fold over nice and neat, then add a little more glue to the edges of the inside cover and a little more to the paper edges. 6. Fold them over and press...

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