Caution: If you have a weak stomach do not scroll down. Go to visit someone else’s blog today. Ghastly photos ensue.
Seriously, it is a word best reserved for Halloween costumes, war correspondents and certain skin ailments. But every once in awhile the average citizen earns the right to use the word in conjunction with their [...]

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I’ve been seeing these felted soap bars at all of the area’s finest farmer’s markets going for quite a steep price. Then it occurred to me, I have more wool roving than a sheep farmer and a linen closet full of soaps.
What does that spell?! F-E-L-T! Who likes to get wet and messy (and ironically [...]

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(The process of blanket blocking. Not so tricky, unless you’re a perfectionist and want all the lines to be ruler-straight. )
So, exactly 2 months after I began, I finished Mason’s baby blanket. Fortunately, he’s only one month old now. Well, 5 weeks….
Nevertheless, after I laid it out it had the classic problem of being all [...]

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Preview of the second Relaxed Homeschooler radio show:

(These sparklers are meant to express my excitement about having another episode of Relaxed Homeschooler radio air on July 28th at 10 am central time. Please call in with your questions and comments and please stay on the line for a few minutes until I switch to you. [...]

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Well, I just had to try this slide show program out. I promise I won’t normally sideswipe you with Weezer songs just for popping by…

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We got a minor chuckle, especially at the part where the doc asks how sunlight feels. But I wish the kid hadn’t continued with some of his own assumptions…unless that was just put in there to cleverly show us that we all make assumptions?

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(Couldn’t bring myself to dump this AM’s leftover coffee down the drain, so I made myself a chilled coffee drink with kefir as the milk. Saved me a 2pm emergency trip to the cafe.)
Just can’t stop making stuff, which is why I haven’t been blogging I suppose. I finally finished the baby blanket this afternoon. [...]

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(They think of everything at the Taste)
Last Wednesday I met my most adventurous culinary tasting friends at the Taste of Chicago. Basically, you’d have to be nuts about food and the lovely idea of getting all of the foods you like in one place at one time in order to brave the crowds, the heat, [...]

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Here is one of those stories where I’m not quite sure what I learned from it about humanity until maybe I’m done writing it. The other day I took my friend’s kids and mine to the park. We met two other homeschooling families there and lazed around on our blankets, knitting, eating, talking, watching the [...]

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Mmm, okay? Yum. Right? That was my cucumber salad just before I added my secret dressing recipe. Dill from yard. It just looked too pretty to eat without capturing somehow. This must be the height of documentation mania then, right? Is there a name for folks like us other than “bloggers”? I once read that [...]

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