wish soup

I use a lot of different circulumn stuff for home schooling but the earthschooling.com one is really cool. She has recipes with stories. So today we told a Persian fairy tale then made wish soup and made wishes over our soup before we ate. I'm so thankful to live across the street from the co-op , we just throw on shoes and get the missing apricots!

new table runner and center piece

My pictures tell me I need a new camera! I made the embroidered table runner and let me tell you over the years with several sergers my 910 viking RULES! It changed to rolled hem in minutes to make a nice edge on the runner. I also wanted to make note the center piece , I found this glass bowl with two candle holders on the side of the road. Usually I add seasonal things to it , for winter a needle felted snowman on top of a scrap of blue satin. So for home school group we planted grass in egg shells and I thought what the heck! Added dirt to my center piece and grass seed and it grew! Amazing and long ,the kids are cutting it and watching it grow back. Blessings on the blossom!

st.patricks day

I just wanted to add a note about this day , every year we built traps for those silly little leprechauns and every year they out smart us! Oats and Hammy took two empty oatmeal containers and made some fancy traps even. While struggling to get out one leprechaun lost a shoe , he had to leave it behind and some wonderful golden chocolate coins. What a good sport they were this year.

We went to the big parade downtown and to landmark center for the Irish dancing , story telling , crafting and people watching.

Home for our corned beef and cabbage!

As the years go by with homeschooling it gets easier because I remember where to go and what to do. The two st.patrick's before this were a rush to find the right crafts to do the stories to tell and this year I went to bed early and let Danny organize everything!

Danny sewed that little shoe out of scraps of leather I had , pretty good for not sewing too much! He carved a walking stick too but I can't find it now!