Helping your future self is not a new idea. In fact, I've heard several bloggers that I follow mention it fairly recently. The idea is to constantly be thinking of ways to make life easier for yourself in the future. When I'm feeling especially unmotivated, I try to think in terms of what "Future Katy" would want me to do right now. Would she be better off if I rested now? Then I'll do that. Would she have an easier time making dinner if I spent five minutes now washing the dishes from the … [Read more...]
2021 Day In The Life Of Our Homeschool
It's time for this year's edition of "What do those homeschoolers do all day anyway?". If you're new around here, we have five kids: Jonah (5th grade), Matthew (4th grade), Hannah (2nd grade), Elizabeth (Kindergarten), and Sarah (3 years old). My husband Jesse is a grad student at Baylor, and I'm the home manager/teacher/writer. This particular day in the life was a Tuesday, and was pretty typical. 6:15am. I wake up. I am the last person awake. That should tell you something about life … [Read more...]
How To Put Together A Simple Novel Study
While I was doing my homeschool planning over the summer, I went looking for novel studies for Jonah and Matthew to do. I was looking for something that would combine reading comprehension (did they actually read the chapter and understand what happened), vocabulary, and maybe some other sort of grammar or part-of-speech related question. I didn't really find what I was looking for. What I found were bits and pieces. I found lists of questions to go with chapters in some of the novels … [Read more...]
Recipe: Oven Baked Cheesy Chile Chicken and Rice Casserole
Have you ever had a recipe that sounded really delicious in your head, but then it just didn't turn out? And then you tried again, and it still didn't turn out? This was that recipe for me, but lucky for me (and for you), I kept trying, because this meal is delicious! It is not, however, an instant pot meal like I originally wanted, because I couldn't get it to work. It has a similar makeup to my Instant Pot Unstuffed Pepper Casserole, so I figured this one would work similarly. I loaded … [Read more...]
Recipe: Copycat Pineapple Jalapeño Fried Rice
Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, I receive a bit of a commission at no additional charge to you. When we first came to Waco to look for a house before we moved here, we went to a few of the local restaurants to try some of the local cuisine. One of the first places we visited was Clay Pot, a cute little Vietnamese restaurant downtown. I don't know about you, but when I'm at a restaurant, one of my favorite things … [Read more...]
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