Donna Young

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Beaded Icicle Ornaments
We have been making these beaded icicles for a long time. Last night Holly and I set up an assembly line and made 51. They can be harder to make than they look like they should be, it just depends on how you choose to do the top pipe cleaner [...]

Lurking in the furthest corner of my refrigerator was a jar of homemade raspberry sauce. If I were to guess the age of this particular sauce, I would say that is has been aging in the refrigerator a year or more. Last year, when my son visited us, I would make a jar of raspberry [...]

Candy Cane Ornaments from Pipe Cleaners
I have one precious pipe cleaner candy cane mixed in with all of my other old Christmas ornaments. My son, when he was six, made one. It is not quite like the one pictured here, it is made from two cut, instead of folded, pipe cleaners. It is pink and [...]

Duck Soup is giving away a book! If you are a homeschooler, visit her blog to find out details. The deadline is soon: 9:00 P.M. eastern time on Thursday, November 15th.
Our schedule for this year started out like this:

6:00 Get Up
6:30 Exercise
7:30 Breakfast
8:15 Economics (1 semester)
9:00 Art III (2 hours minimum [...]

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Mom saves the day!
Nov 2nd, 2007 by tressays
Here we have pictured my son John at 10 months old during January 1988. He is pictured with Mut. When John was 6 months old, we wheeled him in his stroller up to the toy section of JCP where he picked out Mut. John also named him [...]