Drying Herbs For Seasonings

We got some herbs the other day from the store (I wish we could say we grew them, but maybe next year we will). We dried these in our dehydrator and bagged them for use later.  Top left is sage, Top right is thyme. The bottom left is basil. The bottom right is rosemary.

Some Video to Make You Think…

Warning some of the words in these teachings may be a bit extreme for little ears… But we believe they are true and sound teaching that is very much needed in our culture today.

Girls New Coverings

Wide Pre Tied Headband/Headcovering

We bought a few new coverings for the girls to try. We bought them from Cover Your Hair .com They are made with elastic for the band that “ties” it on so it is easy for the girls to take on and off. They were only about six dollars each. So it was worth a try, and they seem to work well for the girls. They were very excited when they came in the mail. We will probably order a few more for them in the future since they are so cheep and were so easy for them to use.

More Pictures of the Twins (kittens)

The Children of Caesar

Here is a video clip about home school, it is worth the wait. Click on it and let run through with the sound turned down, then when it is fully downloaded you can press REPLAY and it will play through without the glitches.
~Blessings, Anna~

Onion Braiding

Judah and Mercy-Fire had fun helping to pull our onions from our smaller garden bed. Anna braided them and we hung them up in the houde to have for later. We got half a laundry basket full of them and it made 2 braids. about a week or so later we harvested all the rest of our onions from the big garden. We got enough from that harvest to fill the basket twice. We made 5 more braids. They turned out nice and it was a fun project to do.

Here are the pictures of that second harvest and one of the flowers as two of them tried to go to seed.

Color Crayon Bible Lesson

All of our children love to color pictures and to draw. They have great imaginations. The down side of children who love to color so much, is that we have a multitude of broken crayons. We gathered all of these broken crayons into a bowl until we were relatively sure that we had them all. The children even searched the depths of the couch under the cushions.  We placed several smaller bowl’s on the table and divided into them the crayons into family color groups (reds-pinks, blues, greens….). As we did this we also were stripping the last of the paper wrappers from them,  I found an old muffin pan that I was willing to sacrifice to this great cause. We placed the crayons into the divisions of the pan by color, and some we made with mixes of colors we liked together.

We placed the pan into the oven pre-heated to 350 degrees. Then once the pan was in the oven on the center rack I turned it off and let them sit for 20-25 minutes. Then removed them and let them cool out of the reach of little fingers. While the pan was cooling we did a bible lesson on Jeremiah and his experience with the potter, in Jeremiah  18:1-6 and the verse in Isaiah 64:8. About how we are clay in the hands of our creator, and how we can let him have control and do a work in our lives.  We also read in 2 Timothy 2:20-26 about the vessels of honor and dishonor and how we can choose to be a vessel unto honor if we allow Him to do this work within us. And for a closing verse we looked at Philippians 4:8 and what kinds of things we are to dwell on. When we were finished they each got a new box of crayons and and a couple pictures to color of some pottery jars. When we knew the pan was cool enough we turned it over on to a sheet of news paper and tapped on the bottom to reveal the new coloring disks we had made, and we talked about how we made something new and useful out of the old. In the same way our creator YHWH looks to do the same in us.

The coloring disks were very pretty. But the tops do not color as well, something in the wax mixture settled to the top and does not color as well. However this was no big deal as the bottoms color very nicely. We made a combined picture showing the top and bottom of the same coloring disk shown below.

Baby Star Afghans

Here are all three finished Star Afghans that I have been working on. You saw the first one on our post Star Baby Afghan (Eight Point). I mentioned then we would post on the second one when I finished it, but then got caught up making a third. Well here they are all together. Perfect set if we ever have triplets.    

This pink, blue and purple one, I used three strands together (soft purple, pink, and white), to make that portion thicker to match the other larger sized yarn. But it was also nice that it gave a pretty mix of color to make it more interesting to the eye. Although the camera didn’t show it as much more than just a pink. It looked better in real life as many things do.

I wrapped the girls cabbage patch kids in the afghans to see how they will fit for a baby. Plus it was fun. Then Vision wanted to be wrapped up too.

New Shirts

We got these new shirts in the mail from my Dad and his wife in Arkansas. They are really neat because the picture changes color in the sunlight. We were amazed at how fast the color changes back and forth. Giving us a good reason to go in and out of the door on the house as often as the children do…*GRIN*! The children were amazed too. They had to tell everyone they saw in town that day they first wore them.

Dried Peppers

We had fun a while back stringing up some peppers that we hung up to dry. We took them down and put them in a jar to use for later in cooking. I don’t know for sure what kind of peppers they are, but they are nice and warm to the taste. Judah tried a little bite and said they were hot as he got a big drink.