Copperswife

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  • On Our Table This Week – June 11, 2012

    We’re still transitioning from cooler weather Spring dishes to the lighter fare we prefer in the summer. Our weather hasn’t quite settled into the heat of summer, and I, for one, am okay with the cooler weather. Our week starts off with a couple of “heavier” cool weather type dishes, but then we venture into…

  • The Heart of a Child

    We’ve been learning about China on Thursdays. Corin and my six grandbabies try to visit every week on Thursday afternoon. We read. We try to do a craft project. They borrow books to take home. They play. Lots and lots of play!   This year, rather than just reading a random selection of books every…

  • Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real – Early Garden Edition

          Pretty – Dani, my pretty girl, in our blueberry patch. The blueberry bushes are loaded with berries this year. Our freezer will be full!     Happy – All those blueberries are making me very happy! This is just one small branch on just one bush. Blueberry Buckle. Blueberry Cobbler. Blueberry Muffins.…

  • Scheduled Homemaking Saves the Day

    After two days of play with my family, today I’m happy to be back in my home for the day and to be able to catch up a bit on things. One of the main benefits to scheduled homemaking, is the ability to be able to decide quickly how to catch up after a day…

  • Copper’s Day Off – In Which We Bowl and Visit an Arcade

    One of Copper’s Christmas gifts this year was a Groupon for bowling. It included an hour and a half of bowling, snack bar dollars and tokens for the Arcade. He’d mentioned wanting to take everyone bowling sometime, and we thought that the Groupon was a good fit.       We had a great time…

  • Weekly Menu For the Week of June 4, 2012

    After  holding my menu plan loosely last week, I ended up with two meals to carry over to the menu plan for next week! I generally have menu plans written a couple of weeks in advance, so those two meals gave me a nice jump start on planning for that week. Nice! Baseball season has…

  • The Saturday Acrostic for June 2, 2012

    The S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Acrostic. The week as captured in eight photos and eight words, in an acrostic format.    Sweet   Adorn   Trimming     Unsociable   Raspberry   Delectable   Agapanthus   Yard   If you’d like to post your own Saturday Acrostic, you’re welcome to do so! Choose eight photographs that depict the week in…

  • Lessons From The Bleachers

    It’s been an uncommonly rough year for me as I’ve struggled with and through a lot of long-held notions that, it turns out, were all of my own making. I’ve learned a lot about grace this year, though I know I’m only scratching the surface of what I have yet to learn. In the past,…

  • Holding My Menu Plan Loosely

    Will’s baseball schedule has kept us on our toes this spring. Not only have the practices and games added a new dimension to our family life, but the very late rainy season we had turned a very do-able schedule into something a bit more resembling chaos than order. On any given day throughout the season…

  • Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real – May 31, 2012

       PRETTY – This Lavender Trumpet Vine was accidentally mowed down a few years ago. Two years later, it put up new growth, and it’s now doing a grand job of growing and climbing to cover the not-so-pretty chain link fence around our back yard.    HAPPY – Dani is happily spooning the chocolate whipped…

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