Ingredients 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour 2 cups rolled oats 1/4 cup dark brown sugar 4 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg 1/2- 2/3 cup dried currants 1 stick of butter 1 egg, well beaten 1 tsp vanilla 1 tbs...
Last week we went on a fairly last-minute family trip to visit Dom’s mother and sister in Virginia. It was a lightning visit. We left here early Monday morning and got to Fredricksburg at dinner time. We got home late Friday night and...
Monday Table time went pretty smoothly. Sophie did her copywork and a page of math and then drew a picture of a princess and a castle. I noticed that she’s regularly writing her name on her pictures. Bella did a page of math from the Saxon...
I made a new recipe for chocolate chip cookies today. They were really, really good. I’m recording my notes here so I can remember what I did. So I was reading this post at serious eats: The Food Lab: The Science of the Best Chocolate Chip...
Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology by Helen Vendler (The third edition is quite expensive, but you can buy used copies of the second edition for as little as $2 plus shipping. That’s $6. A steal.) “This book offers ways...
It’s been a while since I posted links here, but I think I’m going to start doing a bit of it again. Resisting the pull of gravity that Facebook exerts over my online presence. These are some fun things I’ve stumbled across, mostly...
Monday Pretty successful table time. Boys sat still for at least 20 minutes. Bella and Sophie did copywork. I read Bella the daily Mass readings while she wrote. Sophie did not like me to read while she was copying. Grr. Then Bella ran outside to...
So today we took a field trip to the MFA. There were two special exhibitions we especially wanted to see: the Quilts and Color exhibit and the Magna Carta. Also we wanted to see the Roman, Medieval, and Renaissance galleries to catch up with our...
Today my Ben celebrated his fifth birthday. What a joyful day it was. He opened his presents right after breakfast so that he’d have the whole day to enjoy them. (Of course this pretty much shot the heck out of our school day, so I declared a...
Monday We began the day with a trip to the dentist, but I was on the ball enough to grab math workbooks and copywork books. So Sophie did handwriting and Bella did a page of Miquon in the waiting room. Then we came home and Sophie and I took turns...