Monthly Archives: October 2011

You have so many more choices today for baby slings than I did back in 1993 with my first baby!   Well, here it is the last day of October, Attachment Parenting month. I did not blog at all about … Continue reading →

Image Credit: amazon.com Today for my finishing school, we discussed Babette’s Feast (a movie) and the related article/speech by Truman Madsen. This movie is a chick flick that rivals any Jane Austen movie. Go get it and watch it. You … Continue reading →

Good things happen when you let your husband go to what he wants. Last night my husband wanted to go to a Kirk Duncan Body Language show. He has been to a few already. I didn’t really want to go, … Continue reading →

Today was a Farmer Boy day. Yee-haw!   We’ve been working hard all summer and now through this Indian summer, gathering our produce from our small garden. On Thursday, the four youngest and I got the last of the ripe … Continue reading →

  Some pleasant suprises I’ve had lately:   learning about the brain from Aneladee in my daughter’s self-directed scholar phase class. The brain has lots of chemicals and three of them are not present until puberty: dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin. … Continue reading →

  “Mommy, thank you for that dinner, it was so yummy!” That’s what my daughter said to me last Sunday after family dinner. Hearing those words makes my heart sing and make every minute I spend in the kitchen worth … Continue reading →

Diann Jeppson is doing an online Family Builder program that starts November 8. http://www.leadershipeducationfamilybuilder.com/groups/tuesday-online-family-builder-group-diann-jeppson-november-june   For those of you who live in the Weber/Davis county UT area and want to do an in-person Family Builder program, please consider coming to … Continue reading →

My ten-year old convinced me to process grapes into juice, even though I wasn’t going to do it this year. Our neighbor’s fence has tons of grapevines and they let us have all the grapes we want. Truly my life … Continue reading →

  If you want to increase your family’s love of the classics, read aloud time, have more systems in your home to handle the work and fewer battles over chores, this program is for you! If you homeschool or not, … Continue reading →

This is not the TJEd event I want to five and a half years ago, it was another TJED event.   It was five and a half years ago that I went to my first Face to Face With Greatness … Continue reading →