Joanna Gaines' banana bread recipe is my favorite! This gluten free version made with maple syrup is adapted from hers and pretty close to the real thing! Ingredients: 5 ripe bananas 8 tbs (1 stick) butter softened/a little melty 3/4 cup maple syrup 2 large organic eggs 1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract 1 tsp… Continue reading Banana Nut Bread (Gluten Free)
Our Year-Round Homeschool Schedule
This year is flying by. I'm starting to prep for the next school year and looking back at what worked, and what did not. This past year, we did school year-round and it worked out great! Much less time was spent reviewing from the previous year. We try to follow a "sabbath schedule" of 6… Continue reading Our Year-Round Homeschool Schedule
Mama’s 2019 Book List
Today, I am sharing my personal reading stack for the year. In 2019, I’m looking to slow down, simplify, and clean things up a little. Hoping this will allow us the time and energy to build relationships and get outside more! Digging deeper into our: Health + Heart + Home. 📚❤️🏠 #mamareads #simpleliving #homeeducation *PS:… Continue reading Mama’s 2019 Book List
Etsy and Paypal fee calculator and shipping links
If you sell through Etsy and ship through Paypal like I do... here's some quick links I use often. If the buyer did not pay through Paypal you can still use Paypal to ship! Use the ship now link below! I bought a food scale to use at home and it comes very handy. No… Continue reading Etsy and Paypal fee calculator and shipping links
A Playful Pioneers Picture Album
Our latest Playful Pioneers Adventures. Make sure to check back throughout the year! “At noontime everyone was allowed to move about the schoolroom and talk quietly. Eliza Jane opened the dinner-pail on her desk. It held bread-and-butter and sausage, doughnuts and apples, and four delicious apple turnovers, their plump crusts filled with melting slices of… Continue reading A Playful Pioneers Picture Album
Creamy Chicken and Wild Rice Soup
We have had a very cold week here in Middle Tennessee. This is the coldest November I've had since I lived in Michigan as a kid. We even saw a few snowflakes on Thursday! My Florida bones are still not used to this cold weather. So I've been making a lot of soups and baking… Continue reading Creamy Chicken and Wild Rice Soup
Pumpkin patches + pumpkin cookies
Sharing post from last October.... This week we brought the kids to a pumpkin patch and baked cookies for our neighbors. We gathered leaves from our yard to create leaf rubbings with a variety of crayons in fall colors. We then cut up the paper into gift tags to put on the cookies. Old Fashion… Continue reading Pumpkin patches + pumpkin cookies
Cloudy Day Pooh Bear Cookies! (Vanilla Sugar Cutouts with Honey Icing)
"Tut-tut, it looks like rain." We baked up some cloudy day cookies as we countdown to see the movie. We were inspired by one of our favorite chapters during our summer read-aloud. We used The Winnie the Pooh Cookie Book for the recipe. We first gathered up all our ingredients for the batter: butter,… Continue reading Cloudy Day Pooh Bear Cookies! (Vanilla Sugar Cutouts with Honey Icing)
Tea Time with Pooh Bear
I picked up Pooh's Library in the spring and decided it would be our summer read-aloud. This box set contains four hardcover books: the two original Pooh novels, Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, and Milne's two poetry collections, Now We Are Six and When We Were Very Young, which features the very first appearance of Pooh. It is the… Continue reading Tea Time with Pooh Bear
Freshly Picked Favorites
As a mama and maker, I love to support other creative mamas and businesses that make quality products to use in our home and schoolroom. Here are a few I think you should check out. Have fun clicking through. Please share who inspires you! A Living Education makes the wonderful planner you see in my… Continue reading Freshly Picked Favorites
Little Seed Lane 