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Saturday, November 22, 2008

Advent

Sorry for the lack of updates...due to moving preparations, school's been on and off lately.  We are in the middle of Brazil now for ECC.  We will finish that up next week, then we will take a break from regular school for advent to participate in advent activities.  I will be (hopefully) posting daily activities either the day of or the day before we do them.  I will mostly be using this calendar from TeachingMom, but will be modifying it for my family.  I'm not sure if she's going to update it this year, but some of the links don't work anymore, so I will try and find new ones that will work. I usually try to do this every year, although we skipped it last year and I contemplated just following the ECC curriculum through the holidays to "stay on task."  But with schooling year round (just started this year) there is no reason we can't break from the usual curriculum to have a little fun.  So from now until Thanksgiving, we will work on finishing up our study of Brazil, and I will be preparing the advent stuff.  I just love this time of year and am so happy that I made the decision to "do" this calendar again! Love, Lisa

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Friday, October 3, 2008

Our time in Mexico-ECC

Okay, so we weren't actually in Mexico, but we definitely learned about it (and Central America)!  I just thought I'd share with you some of the adventures we had.  Here's the bible verse we memorized for the last week.  The top one was Vincent's copy work, practicing his new handwriting skills.  The bottom one was the next day's dictation of the verse. Here's our flag wall, where we will hang up all the flags of the countries we learn...Vincent is coloring them and writing facts on the back about the symbolism in the flags.  So far, we have the USA and Mexico. Here are some of the art projects we did...we made suns out of air-drying modeling clay (we have yet to paint them) and tissue paper flowers.  These were so fun! And here are some of my favorite notebook pages Vincent made for science...we had been learning about deserts. Okay, I'm not really sure if a girl would have drawn a tarantula eating a bug!  *giggle* The next one is my favorite... And this one is so cute.  It says "Many desert people now travel by car but still keep camels."  That's a camel in the back of a truck.  We finished reading our first missionary biography of the year, too.  It was a very good read, and we are looking forward to the rest of them! And what's Isaac usually doing during school? Oh, and in other news, I've officially started my fall baking.  Love, Lisa

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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Wordless Wednesday-Smile!

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Saturday, September 20, 2008

An oldie but goodie

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Mexican Recipes

I thought I'd post the recipes we have tried from Mexico that we liked...well, actually, we have liked all of them so far! The first thing we had this week was Mexican Chicken Corn Chowder (click link for recipe).  This was an instant hit with myself and hubby.  I don't think it really knocked Vincent's socks off, but he ate it anyways...he's not really a big soup person.   And Andrew (aka Moose), in typical Andrew-fashion, took a few bites and said "All done!"  I'm not really sure how that kid is continuing to gain weight. The same night we had the Corn Chowder, I was browsing some of my favorite blogs, and saw a recipe for enchiladas posted by Pioneer Woman.  They looked really yummy, and not too difficult, so I said, "We're having those tomorrow!" and we did.  These were a huge hit with *everyone.*  That recipe is definitely going into the family cookbook! I had some leftover meat mixture and sauce from the enchiladas, so I mixed those together with some shredded cheese.  For the next day's meal, I cooked up some pinto beans and some rice.  We used the leftover enchilada meat and sauce mixture with those to make our own burritos. Last night, I made Chicken Lime Soft Tacos, and those were another hit!  For desert, I made Mexican Wedding Cakes (which we make for Christmas every year, anyways, but it was fun!)  Leftovers are practically non-existent in the house this week, and those that are here, don't stick around very long.  I am so pleased with how this has been going! Here's a recipe we had for breakfast yesterday (very yummy!). Chilaquilles 6 small corn tortillas 1 small onion, chopped 1 small tomato, chopped 1 bell pepper, chopped (I left this out, though, not too many bell pepper fans here) 6 eggs 1 tsp salt 1 tsp pepper (I only used 1/2 tsp) 2 T vegetable oil 1.  Stack tortillas and use a pizza cutter to cut them into bite-sized pieces.  2.  Break all the eggs into a bowl and add the salt and pepper.  Use a fork or whisk to beat the eggs until they are frothy.  Set aside. 3.  Put half the oil into a frying pan and put on stove on medium heat.  When oil is hot, add the onions and tortillas.  Cook and stir until both are slightly browned.  Add the remaining oil and raise the temp to med-high.  When the oil is hot, add the peppers.  Wait a minute and add the tomatoes. 4.  Stir and cook until the veggies are soft and the tortillas are light golden brown and crispy.  Add the egg mixture and continue stirring until the eggs are cooked.  Serve right away. Tonight I plan on making Tortilla Soup (will post the recipe later if it turns out good).  Next week, I am planning on plain old beef tacos, beef carnitas, King Ranch Chicken Casserole, Jamaican Jerk Chicken, and Pelau (from Trinidad and Tobago).  I also want to make Mexican Hot Chocolate, Guacamole, Pico de Gallo, and Tres Leches Cake. I love to cook, and this is so fun, learning new recipes!  This will be an interesting school year, for sure! Love, Lisa

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