This June, we are writing out our annual homeschool reading lists, reorganizing our library, adding more bookcases, planting a clematis on our new trellis wall to grow along with the English roses, illustrating my children’s books and novels, and enjoying some fresh summer broccoli sprouts and sweet melon. Simmering ideas in the shade is a good way to meditate on the year ahead. This is a stimulating time to grow organic plant foods and positive thoughts.
Today, we’re planning up some magical homeschool projects to meld into our Midsummer faeland festivities. We flew out to play in the elvish glen. Then, we returned for some cosy, pillowy-light ravioli. Take care not to fall into a fairy ring. Journey your own path…
Back to our ocean home, first for a visit with the cleaner wrasse, then to feel that healing power of hot sand over paws and a rushing cool wind in the hair. Alive. We bury treasure again. We let go. We explore shells and shops and teddy bear line ups. A wonderfully tiring day with our mer-clan.
New seafaring fine art photography prints will wash ashore within a few rain showers, including some special B&W oceanscapes.
With a clean home and a simmering weekly soup, complete with warm biscuits and savoury crackers, we’re all set to begin a fresh set of days. Our goal is to make everything ourselves. Mustard has been checked off the list, and tortillas are next… Baking is good for the senses.
I use a special mix of herbs and spices that is simply delicious in most dishes, and I’ve dedicated an entire page to this subject in my upcoming cookbook. These lovelies are included in our regular recipe section.
My recipes are short and sweet. We keep a brief card for each one in a little book tin. No need for pages and pages of fluff. This helps us to focus and enjoy the baking and cooking.
P.S. My husband first made these during my pregnancy, which was severely difficult, and these helped a lot, as they were one of the few things I could eat. Also, I wish we had known about papaya enzymes earlier. They seemed to help a little. Pineapple juice, cold shredded carrot salad…all of his favourites…just kidding, but he figured it out anyways. It would have been less stressful for both of us if he had known how to cook more types of foods beforehand. Luckily, engineers are good at following directions. My intuitive ‘just some’ doesn’t work for him, so for my cookbook, I indicated the usual set amounts to use as a guide, while still encouraging a sense-feel style of cooking so that one can improvise easily and confidently with any available ingredients.
This is why I always write in helpful supporting book characters for my mothers-to-be, to inspire our world to do so. I sincerely recommend that every person in the universe learns how to cook and bake as many healthy things as they can. It’s not only enjoyable, but it helps everyone. It’s a peaceful action. For partners of pregnant mothers, it is not just loving, but it can save lives. Plural. Nutritional education is vital. We learn about food every day, especially in our homeschool lessons, and eat mostly fresh organic plants.
Today, I made these crackers even smaller…to fit on the soup spoon…and I like it! They last longer this way, too. The wavy pasta tool worked well, making crispy edges. Customize the flavours to match your soup!
Lilacs and green White Mountain ranges, a drive over and through the steep woods, stingrays and nibbling fish, and a family stroll through the land of fairy tales delighted us over the weekend. Having moved to the high hills and lakes, we read on and on. We happened upon a wooden house from one our recent reads and found a bed, a stone stove, little chairs, and skis. Heidi’s house in the Alps appeared atop a New Hampshire hill, overlooking her little town, with sprouting green ridges stretched out above in the near distance. I recalled walking along the Alps and looked about for the white cows and goats that graze in my memory. Mother Goose read to us in her lavender bonnet, we rowed with pirates and found more treasures, reminding me of Idlewild Park, a bit south, both parks having the Little Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe. No children but visitors on this yellow boot. Next door, alligators and jellyfish swam, though in very tight tanks. I’m not interested in zoos, as encapsulating wild ones is too sad. We tried first rides, and many other little firsts. We’re so proud, such big steps for our dear family.
Today, we’ll record details from this homeschool field trip. It was generally lovely, relaxed, and less crowded than parks for older kiddies, but the others’ babes were quite overtired, crying, and the tightly formed lines didn’t help. We’re extremely sensitive and outtings are difficult, but the appreciated prevention of smoke at this park made it possible for us to try it! It is a park for little cubs, after all. Conway was bustling with craft fair tents as we passed by on the lower road home, and we read out curious shop names to visit another day. We retreated back home, to de-mask and de-mitten, to rest feet and backs, and to unwind overstimulated senses with lasagna, recaps, and cuddles. Many questions were answered, for little darlings need help processing so much energy spent in one place and time. We all do, actually…
This morning, a peach pie sizzles in the oven. We’ll return to Storyland next spring, for this cool air went swimmingly with that funny pumpkin coach energy. We may even try Santa’s Village, for little elves here already know so much about the North Pole, and it would be fun to enjoy some of the perks of the job. Now, we’ll tuck into some new library books, and edit my tales, for getting to know characters lends such joy to one’s life.
Happy Summer Adventures! Take the best care. Love, ~Amor Milagre
…home again home again jiggity jig…
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