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some frugal recipes :)

Recipe: Baked Navy Beans (very much like B&M baked beans)

CDKitchen http://www.cdkitchen.com

Category: Baked Beans

Serves/Makes: 6 | Difficulty Level: 3 | Ready In: > 5 hrs


Ingredients:
2 pounds dry navy beans
1 small onion -- chopped
1 cup ketchup
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup water*
2 teaspoons mustard
3 tablespoons molasses (used pancake syrup)
1 tablespoon salt
8 slices bacon -- fried crisp


Directions:
*add water as needed

Put beans in three times the volume of unsalted water, bring to a boil
and let simmer for 30 minutes. Let stand in covered hot water for 2
hours. Mix other ingredients in bowl. Drain beans well and mix all
ingredients and beans together. Put in crock pot and let cook on low for 12
hours.


Noodle Rice Pilaf (Taste of Home magazine)

1/4 C. Margarine or butter ( not spread)

1 C. long grain rice

½ C. Thin noodles ( we use little stars.) Any little noodle will
do,
alphabets, thin spaghetti- broken in small pieces etc.

2 3/4 cup chicken broth ( I use water, and 2-3 chicken bullion cubes)

2 T. parsley.

Dash of garlic

Dash of onion pd.

Melt butter/marg in sauce pan, add noodles and rice and brown. Add
broth/water and seasonings, bring to boil, put on lid, reduce heat to
simmer/low and cook for 20-25 min. Makes 4 servings

Menu Plan Monday

Monday
breakfast pie (again a huge hit at our house)
bacon

Tuesday
tacos
homemade refried beans
taco rice

Wednesday
brisket fajitas
leftover beans and rice

Thursday
BBQ drumsticks (again a huge hit last week and cheap)
BBQ beans (from last weeks bunch)
crockpot mac n cheese?

Friday- LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
homemade pizza to celebrate :)

The plans for the last week of SCHOOL!!!

Well this is our last week of this school year, the last week of having all 3 in middle school or elementary school. Our plans for this week include:

History- finish up WWII projects and questions and that darn Hindenburg once and for all

Math- continue as normal

Health-oldest has to finish this to get high school credit she has gotten behind so will probably have to work on it or get an incomplete and have to take it in the fall at co-op

CQLA or english- finish up the current unit we are on :) this will be a lot of work but I know they don't want to put off summer break one more week :)

What kind of shoe are you?

You Are Flip Flops

You are laid back and very friendly. Cheery and sunny in disposition, you usually have something to smile about. Style is important to you, as long as you can stay casual. It takes a lot to get you to dress up! You are a loyal and true person, though you can be a bit of a flake. You tend to "play hooky" and blow off responsibilities a lot more than most people. You should live: By the beach You should work: At a casual up and coming company

What Kind of Shoe Are You?

Monday
Egg pie
Bacon

Tuesday
bean cheese tacos

Wednesday
hamburgers

Thursday
grilled drumsticks

Friday
sausage and oven baked parmesean fries

Weeks in Review

Well we have finally finished the long awaited essays!! I took pictures for proof, the turned out really well. I bet you can tell whose is the oldest?

The chef to be's essay, boy is his dysgraphia still showing. He did his on predators, he wrote it on the Electric eel and the Venus Flytrap.


Mr. Wacky Princes essay on Henri Fabre, for some reason he learned about him in General Science in co-op and was really intrigued with him.

Queen to be did her's on William Shakespeare, she really is becoming such a good writer. If you know the queen you would not be surprised she did it on Shakespeare, it is so dramatic of her LOL


The control center for the week. We are winding up the school year and have just a little time left. Boy and I needing the break :)

Our history this week includes pictures of works in progress :( the Hindenburg is STILL be worked on it has been fun but we need to finish it up this week. Chef did a model of an aircraft carrier that is included too. Also included are the book we have been reading on WWII.

It has been a busy week and I am so glad it is the weekend!

Happy 14th Bday

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Notice the sticky on our kitty's b*tt, it says, "KICK ME!" I guess I could suspend my homeschool kids for bullying! LOL

Update and weekly musings

Homeschooling
We are working on WWII STILL we are moving into the Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima time. The Hindenburg is finally completely paper mached and is partially painted. My youngest has also made an aircraft carrier model out of cardstock, he loves doing this kind of stuff.

The essay is coming along we are editing it and it should be turned in and completed on Friday, hopefully. My wacky prince is almost done with his MUS book (the 2nd one this year) he will move into Epsilon. We will continue to do math 3 times per week through the summer.

The queen to be is finishing her health for the year she will get a 1/2 credit for high school. She will finish all the book work before the end of the year and will finish Me, Myself and God Scrapbook. She will have an additional project that will be done next year sometime, it is a heart lapbook

Basically we are just counting the days until we are done, it is time for a break we have been going full speed since we came back from moving and we are all ready for the two month break!

Co-op
Co-op ended on Friday and I could do the happy dance, we love co-op but I am so glad for the break. My queen to be pulled a 101 in her Rainbow Science class and the wacky prince received a 88 in his General Science.

Queen to be will be in High school next year and wants to take IPC or Biology (big debate here), Pyschology and Debate for credit classes. Pyschology and Debate are 1/2 credit classes and she will also take a drama class (surprised aren't you) plus a line dancing class. The Wacky Prince will take General Science Part 2 and wants to take flag football, logic class, golf and is dying to take auto maintence(he gets that mechanical gene from my dad)

We have no idea what the youngest will take but I am sure there will be a cooking class somewhere in there.

Home Life
Well we have a new member of the family, no he is not allowed inside and we do not pet him. But he is a very busy little fellow and fun to watch. When we got home from the end of semester thing for co-op (where none of the picture came out) he was hanging around in a bush. He is really fun to wach and we just love the nature in our neck of the woods, we have seen so much here possums, doves, cardinals, blue jays, wild cats and gulp lots of slimy snails.


WE have also celebrated a birthday this week. The wacky prince turned 13yo on Friday so until Wednesday I have two 13yo, are you scared?? So happy bday wacky prince

This is a picture from the fall, he was not in the mood, LOL what a surpise, 13yo and not in the mood!

1.Bible Study/ Devotions- Proverbs 14-18 and keep reading Boundaries

2."Must Do"~ shop for dd's birthday and bake cake
go to the bank
lesson planning for history

3. Zone~ my zone this week is the living room, it needs a good sweeping and mopping

4.Train Them Up~ Work on my 13yo (Both of them I have 2 until Wednesday) attitudal issues. Break the have to talk on the phone every minute of the day habit

Menu Monday

Monday
sausage and mac n cheese

Tuesday
tacos

Wednesday
homemade mexican pizza?

Thursday
hot dogs chili

Friday
BBQ meatballs

Saturday
smoked brisket

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My stepson is precious :)

Menu Plan Monday

Monday
Pancakes
bacon

Tuesday
Spaghetti

Wednesday
leftovers or
hot dogs
Thursday
chicken scampi
smashed potatoes

Friday
not sure it is the last day of co-op and we have the end of semester program that night

Saturday
grilled chicken

Nature in the 'hood!

So we have a lot of nature experiences this week :)

We first had this fall into our yard, at first when we looked out the window and saw it (it was pouring down rain at the time) we thought it was a plastic puffer fish. so of course we had to slice it and see what was inside! Can you say your homeschooling is showing!



Then this afternoon I see our chix/terrior was sure interested in something. And seemed about 2 seconds for attacking. Luckly I stopped him because there seems to be a family of these, living under the deck!


We live in a major city and have seen more nature in the last week, than in the year we lived out close to the lake. The kids are loving this and so am I!

Spelling list for my son

I am putting this on here for my son, and so we can easily find his spelling list for the week so please ignore this!

http://kidsspell.com/spelling-words.php?ln=Sparks CQLA 2a week 4&w0=what&w1= while&w2= finish&w3= there&w4= charge&w5= Christmas&w6= shingle&w7= thimble&w8= publish&w9= thimble&w10= establish&w11= accomplish&w12= tried&w13= known&w14= were&t=15

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Love is.....a new piece of rawhide