Entries Tagged as 'Food'

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Egyptian Donuts?

Not!
Haha! No, these are just regular donuts. But GB and I took time out of his schedule of Egyptian projects to make up a batch of donuts. And this gives Aquagirl a chance to see how it’s done.

Materials: Regular, refrigerated biscuit dough, and a fryer. What could be easier? You could also just use a [...]

Monday, August 25th, 2008

GB’s first sleepover

GB is now old enough that he understood that Aquagirl and Jabem both brought friends on the cruise. The whole time we were gone he kept making statements to the effect, “I feel so guilty, because MY friends would love this…..” It doesn’t matter to him that Gymbabe and J paid their own way. He [...]

Monday, March 17th, 2008

St. Patrick’s Day mini unit

Today we deviated from the curriculum by doing a little mini-unit about St. Patrick. I found it at Learning Through History.
We watched a couple of videos, including this one:


We read about St. Patrick here and the History of St. Patrick’s Day here.
A quick little timeline for the History of St. Patrick’s Day [...]

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Iditarod and stuff

The Iditarod began yesterday. And GB and I have been more into the race this year than we even were last year. Probably because we know more about it than we used to.
This morning I needed some time to myself to get some household stuff done. I had to cut and wash the dog’s hair [...]

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Mmm! Taffy!

Still working on our Colonial Unit.
I know it seems like we’ve been doing it forever………. But we like to go    s l o w …..
So we’ve been learning about some Colonial food lately. And GB and his dad decided that pease porridge just sounded TOO gross to try. So we decided that taffy would [...]

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

All A’s

You know how hard it is to get A’s in college, right?
Well, this semester Aquagirl got ALL A’s! So we decided that that needed to be celebrated with the whole Martin clan! We left the dinner venue up to Aquagirl… and really, I was expecting her to choose something more upscale, or whatever…. But she [...]

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