Spending most of my childhood playing sports and training to be an attorney, I paid little attention to homemaking. Since this is so central to my vocation, we spent the week learning together. We made a Homemaking 101 binder with tabs for Family, Cleaning, Cooking, Organizing, and Decorating. Slick Slack (6) loved this. She learned 24 steps to cleaning a bathroom, a compilation of tips from these blogs, my own preferences, and her style:
- Fly lady
- Confessions of a homeschooler
- Amongst lovely things
- Starr Family Blog
She baked her first cake from scratch, a chocolate cake in honor of her friend, Luke, and her godfather, as it was the feast day of St. Luke, adding a secret ingredient - sweet potatoes from a baby food jar. It was edible and cute. The secret healthy ingredient wasn't discovered. We are using "A Year with God: Celebrating the Liturgical Year" from Catholic Heritage Curricula to understand what is means to live the liturgical year. As a convert, I'm looking for any suggestions you all may have.
Our first full year homeschooling, we are trying to find balance. Homemaking had been taking a backseat to memory work, presentations, math, etc., but this week gave me a newfound focus. The smiles all around me help me realize that learning happens in myriad creative ways.
Good night, ladies.
Slick-slack's cake sounds so delicious! We have been baking every Tuesday afternoon - I know, it's not too spontaneous, but otherwise we were always saying we would "make that sometime soon." Since we are doing US Geography this year, we are going to try out the recipes from State-by-state baking (you can find them at www.showerofroses.blogspot.com) - last week we made Rhode Island Johnny cakes and my kids loved them, but Sandy's boys were a little skeptical! ;-)
ReplyDeleteShower of Roses is a great place for ideas on living the liturgy. She is amazing, and apparently makes some awesome looking treat nearly every day of the liturgical year!
Thank you for such a lovely post!
ReplyDeleteThe cake sounds so yummy.
I know of the Fly Lady but prefer the Mrs Meyers approach:
http://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Meyers-Clean-Home-No-Nonsense/dp/B003MAJNTO
You might like the books by Joanna Bogle - an amazing British broadcaster we met in the UK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Bogle
She writes about various feasts days through the year and teams them up with recipes etc.
Books here:
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Feasts-Seasons-Joanna-Bogle/dp/0852442173
http://www.amazon.com/Yearbook-Seasons-Celebrations-Joanna-Bogle/dp/0852441290/ref=pd_sim_b_1
I also have a book by Meredith Gould called 'The Catholic Home: Celebrations and Traditions for Holidays, Feast Days, and Every Day'. I don't particularly like it (it's a bit basic and she's wobbly in terms of her liturgical orthodoxy - something I have very little patience with) but you might like it - it's probably a good intro:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Catholic-Home-Celebrations-Traditions/dp/0385519079/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
I love The Continual Feast. It just arrived in the mail. I registered for the conference this weekend in Chantilly. I couldn't help myself.
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