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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

My Commonplace Book... Makings of a Pascha Basket: Just CrossStitch April 2022


 I get the Just CrossStitch magazine and saw this in the April 2022 edition. I loved reading about the Pascha Basket and Wanted to keep it for my Commonplace Book.

A very ancient custom which “fell by the wayside” among the Greeks as a result of the 400 years of Turkish rule, was the custom of “blessing the family baskets” of Paschal food at Easter. It is still widespread among the Slavic nations who inherited the Orthodox Christian faith and culture from the Byzantine Greeks. ~ stjohndfw


Making of the Pascha Basket


Tuesday, March 28, 2023

My Commonplace Book... African American People of Note: Maya Angelou

    Maya Angelou, was born Marguerite Ann Johnson April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri, and was an American poet, memoirist, actress, and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal. She is known mainly for her six autobiographies that start with the book: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings published in 1969. Ms. Angelou is also known for her poetry.

 


 

QUOTES 

FROM MAYA ANGELOU

 "You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

 

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Curriculum choices

Start school on birthdays. Will go birthday to birthday all year.

 

 PreK - 3 year olds

Language Arts:

    Handwriting:
       
Handwriting Without Tears

    Phonics:
        
Sing, Spell, Read and Write
        Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

    Literature:

PreK - 4 year olds

Language Arts:

    Handwriting:
       
Handwriting Without Tears

    Phonics:
       
Alpha-Phonics
        Bob Books
        Sing, Spell, Read and Write
        Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
        Explode the Code A, B, C

    Literature: 

Kindergarten - 5 year olds

Language Arts:

    Handwriting:
       
A Reason for Handwriting K (the decorated paper)
        Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting K

    Phonics:
        
Alpha-Phonics
        Bob Books
        Sing, Spell, Read and Write
        Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
        Explode the Code 1, 2, 3

    Literature:

 First Grade - 6 year olds

Language Arts:

    Handwriting:
       
A Reason for Handwriting 1 (the decorated paper)
        Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting 1

    Phonics:
        

Thursday, December 29, 2022

Memorial... My Brother: John Michael Schlageter



21 And he said:

“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
And naked shall I return there.
The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away;
Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Recipes: (Salad)... Simple Grape Salad

I got this recipe from the restaurant at the Black Gold Casino in Hobbs, NM when I worked at the casino between 2005-2008. It was delicious and I have enjoyed making it ever since for the summer. I looked it up on the internet and found the exact same recipe by , and it is from The Cranmom Cookbook, one of the cookbooks created at FamilyCookbookProject.com. I use different kinds of grapes and add walnuts or pecans to the top of it instead of mixing the nuts into it.

 

Ingredients: 

  • Red and/or Green seedless grapes, about 2 pounds, washed and dried
  • 2 - 8 oz packages cream cheese
  • 1 can sweetened condensed milk
  • Chopped pecans, or walnuts, or even slivered almonds

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Directions: 

  • Mix together cream cheese and milk until smooth and soft.
  • Pour mixture over grapes in a large bowl and mix
  • Add nuts on top
  • Refrigerate





   

Monday, October 3, 2022

My Commonplace book... Poem: "Come Little Leaves" by George Cooper

 Well, Fall/Autumn has come to my part of the world. The mornings are colder and the days are generally cooler. I came upon this poem and, although there are generally no trees where I live at this time in my life, I remember the leaves from Tennessee and this poem makes me homesick. The poem is titled "Come Little Leaves". It is from the book "In the Nursery of My Bookhouse" - Volume 1. The book was edited by olive Beaupre Miller; published by The Bookhouse for Children 1920

Come Little Leaves by George Cooper


Wednesday, September 21, 2022

My commonplace book... Poem: "Summer and Fall" by Nona Keen Duffy

Well the first day of fall happens tomorrow. Came upon this poem and wanted to remember it. Photo is from Millie Motts' Flickr and was written by Nona Keen Duffy.

Poem: "Summer and Fall" by Nona Keen Duffy
"Summer and Fall" By Nona Keen Duffy. Arrangement by Millie Motts