Happy Birthday, Shiloh!!

From Grammy and Papa

(Daniel, the package is in the mail)

Thomas' Birthday

Happy Birthday, Thomas.  I can't believe you're 12! 

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Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

For my friend, Kay.

Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup peanut butter (cheap brand works best)

Mix all ingredients together. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto greased baking sheet. Bake at 350 F. for about eight minutes. 

Note: this recipe makes a small amount. 

(Picture taken from Google images)

Chocolate Unit Study

We've just been to stay a week at a lake house so my husband could have some rest.  I wanted to keep Thomas and Abby's noise levels down to a dull roar, so I took along some things for them to do: needlework, toys, plenty of books to read aloud and independently, drawing, cards, and the chocolate unit study from homeschoolshare.com.  Now I have to tell you that we like chocolate the BEST, so this was perfect for our family.  

I gathered my supplies and resources: brownie mix, our favorite truffles loving sent by my daughter-in-law, chocolate bars, M&Ms, plus some I found on sale after Valentines, chocolate chips to make fondue, with pretzels, marshmallows, and apples, chocolate chips to make playdough, and my personal stash of dark chocolate.  Oh, and library books: The Chocolate Touch, books about the history of chocolate, books about the rain forest.  

We did chocolate math, we watched the I Love Lucy episode where she and Ethel get jobs in the chocolate factory, we read books, we did word puzzles, we played, we baked, we partied!

To tell you the truth, we had so much fun, we forgot to take pictures every day!