Here is an easy, but delicious recipe for Valentine’s Day (or any day). I jazz it up a little for Valentine’s by adding strawberries in a heart shape. Click on image to see more great recipes for Favorite Ingredients Friday: Valentine’s Day Chocolate Edition. White Chocolate Cheese Cake Ingredients : 1 pkg. (8 oz.) Cream Cheese, softened 2 cups cold milk, divided 2 pkg. (4-serving size each) White Chocolate Flavor Instant Pudding & Pie Filling 1 tub (8 oz.) Whipped Topping, thawed 1 Graham Pie Crust (6 oz.) Preparation: BEAT cream cheese and 1/2 cup of the milk in large…
Month: February 2007
I received some great information just in time for Valentine’s Day. I thought I would share it here. CHOCOLATE LESSON PLANS & MORE For an in-depth lesson on chocolate, visit the Exploratorium website where you can indulge in “The Sweet Science ofChocolate“. And don’t miss Homefires’ “A Valentine’s Day Chocolate Curriculum“by Fran Wisniewski with all kinds of links to the history andscience of chocolate along with chocolate literature suggestions,movies and videos about chocolate, and some fun chocolateactivities — great for you unit-study folks! We’ve also put together lots of fun chocolate learning activities for little ones. VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS TO…
The Lord is Good!
Posted in Thoughts
As many of you know, we’ll be moving in the near future. What you may not know is that we took a huge leap of faith when we decided to purchase the home in our new area. When we found out that D would be getting orders to a new location not too far from where we are now (about 2 1/2 hours away), we headed down there to look at the housing. It wasn’t exactly what we were expecting, but later, we did find a house that we really liked that was in our price range. For those of…
Frugal Friday: Valentines
Posted in Holidays, and Thrifty Ideas
This year we wanted to do something different for munchkin’s valentines for the homeschool Valentine’s Party. We had to make at least 65 valentine’s, so we needed to figure out something that would be inexpensive. We decided to use some cardstock that we had on hand (received it free from someone). I then cut out a lot of hearts from old cards and from my bulb catalog (lots of flower pictures). We ended up with hundreds of floral hearts. Munchkin then glued the hearts onto postcard size cardstock. On the back of the cardstock, I printed Happy Valentine’s Day! We…
Facing the Giants
Posted in Reviews
Tonight, we finally were able to see the movie Facing the Giants. If you’re looking for a great, inspiring, God-centered, family-friendly movie, this is the movie for you and your family. It created some great comments and discussions with our daughter as we were watching it. I wish I could write a really good review, but this is one that you just really need to see. Tissues are definitely recommended.