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Posted on December 18th, 2012 under holidays. Tags: christmas, farm, tree. Comments: 2

Ok, here it is! After juggling 6 catalogs, 12 browser pages, and a super-secret piece of paper with notes and circles and arrows on the back, here is the World of Julie rundown for this holiday. (Forgive me for the lack of pictures, but I’m compiling this post with kids in the house, and I [...]

Posted on November 29th, 2012 under holidays. Tags: 100 scope notes, christmas, dress ups, gifts, jm cremps, lego, magic cabin, nova naturals, wrinkle in time. Comments: 6

Hello all. This is your annual reminder post about having Slow Holidays. You can read the original post here; what it says, basically, is that you should give fewer gifts, make them more meaningful, and encourage everyone to open one gift and enjoy it for a while before going on to the next one. As [...]

Posted on November 7th, 2011 under holidays. Tags: christmas, gifts, presents, slow christmas, toys. Comments: 6

So we have a Halloween dessert potluck at our homeschool co-op tomorrow. I had planned on making owl cookies, but it turned out we were out of butter (what? shocking, I know! I always assume that I have several pounds of butter in the freezer). “Let’s just make meringues,” I said. Mostly thinking that cookies [...]

Posted on October 26th, 2011 under baking, holidays. Tags: baking, chocolate chips, cookies, dessert, ghost, ghosts, halloween, meringue, potluck. Comments: 7

We branched out a bit in our Easter egg designs this year. Rather than doing our usual rubber band designs, we got all inspired by this month’s Martha Stewart magazine and used electrical tape to make patterns (ok, Martha really mostly says to buy some kind of craft-store adhesive vinyl, but it was clear it [...]

Posted on March 30th, 2010 under activities, holidays. Tags: adhesive vinyl, easter, eggs, electrical tape, holidays, make and takes, martha stewart, puzzles. Comments: 2

Once again, the Let’s Explore Blog came through with a great activity! Just in time for Saint Patrick’s Day, Amy offers up a free downloadable book called “The Leprechaun’s Walk.” You print it out, and then your kids fill out where the leprechaun walks to (“over the ________________, around the ______________” etc.) and draw accompanying [...]

Posted on March 10th, 2010 under activities, holidays. Tags: activities, art, book, downloads, drawing, leprechaun's walk, leprechauns, let's explore, pdf. Comments: 1

I get so sick of the Valentine thing every year. I mean, I really don’t care about it. I know Dave loves me and he knows I love him. I don’t want to spend our money on some bouquet of flowers just because Hallmark tells us to. (Though I’m always happy for an excuse for [...]

Posted on February 8th, 2010 under holidays. Tags: cards, downloads, free printables, holidays, ohdeedoh, valentines. Comments: 1

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Posted on December 25th, 2009 under holidays. Tags: christmas, christmas card, holiday. Comments: 6

According to Dave’s mom, today is called Christmas Adam (because Adam comes before Eve). Now that you know this, you’ll find you can use this term all the time. Because, really, all sorts of holiday events often happen on Christmas Adam. I have incorporated this term into my lexicon for so many years I forgot [...]

Posted on December 23rd, 2009 under holidays. Tags: christmas, christmas adam, christmas eve, holidays. Comments: 8