IF YOU GIVE A HOMESCHOOLING MOM A COOKIE...

If you give a Homeschooling Mom a cookie, she'll want the
recipe.

She will plan a complete unit study on the History of Cookies.

The family will take a field trip to a farm and see where we get eggs,
milk and grain.

At home they will make butter out of milk.

The children will want to start grinding their own grain.

Mom will purchase a Bosch Universal Kitchen System.

She will remember she will need a new list of cookbooks.

So she will order An Introduction To Whole Grain Baking w/ CD,
Desserts, The Cooking With Children CD, and Lunches & Snacks Cookbook
by Sue Gregg, also Whole Foods for Kids to Cook.

Mom orders a 100 lb. bag of wheat berries.

Now she will grind her own wheat grain into flour.

The children remember the farm field trip and knowing they can't
possibly get a cow they beg for a few chickens.

So to a trip to the library to research how to build a chicken
coop and to how to care for chickens.

On the way out the door Mom see the book, "Chicken Tractor" by
Andy Lee & Pat Foreman.

They stop by the Feed and Seed to pick up materials and ask
where to purchase the chicks.

There the clerk tells them about egg that can be incubated.

He sells them a book on hatching eggs, eggs, and incubator.

At home Mom and the younger children set up the incubator while
Dad and the older children build the chicken tractor.

Back to the library to pick up gardening books and more books on
chickens.

The oldest daughter now starts a business grinding flour for the
her friend's families.

While her younger sisters are selling homemade cookies to their
neighbors.

The boys have started building a new chicken tractor because
they want more eggs for breakfast.

That cookie that started this all....

the homeschooling mom's three
year old ate it.

(---based on If you Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff.)

By Leticia from http://cause-of-our-joy.blogspot.com


I'm off to bed to dream of cookie recipes, churning butter, and raising chickens.

In Him,

Living Free

Oh, how the time flies by...

I can't believe it has been over a month since I've posted! I've been spending all my free time reading instead of writing.

Here is a link to a wonderful story I read:

www.lilleysofthefield.blogspot.com/2007/04/when-queens-ride-by.html
(Sorry, but I can't figure out how to make this link, so you will have to cut and paste it.)

As this had been a sponge season in my life, I will try and post some of the wonderful quotes that I have copied down.

Check back soon and hopefully I will have a chance to share the wonderful things God has been teaching me.

In Him,

Living Free