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Home-keeping hearts are happiest
Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest;
Home-keeping hearts are happiest,
For those that wander they know not where
Are full of trouble and full of care;
To stay at home is best. (Longfellow)
We had a wonderful four days of “home-keeping� activities that left all of our hearts happy.
Our friends Joanna, Christine, and Elise were visiting us. During the day, Joanna and Elise sewed on their quilts. Elise actually finished hers before she left. Yeah! Now she and Alice have matching quilts. One more visit and Joanna will be done. For months we have been talking about having an old-fashioned taffy pull, so this seemed like the perfect time. Now we know why taffy pulls were so popular. We couldn’t stop laughing. We are still experimenting with recipes and when we have settled on the best one we will post it, along with all the little tricks we are learning. The cookbooks from the ‘20s seem to be the most specific with tips for success. It was really fun.
With all the activity going on, Alice still managed to get in a biology dissection. My niece’s brother in law dissects with her. She really needs him too. He actually touched the crayfish! We can hardly wait to see the face she makes when they cut open that big, fat frog!
Posted by lilypress at April 15, 2005 2:50 AM
Comments
This is too funny!
I teach a Biology Dissection for 12 kids every November for our homeschool umbrella school and get the same looks every year..."We have to actually touch that?"
Yep!
With gloves, of course. :)
Posted by: Mary Beth Jones at April 30, 2006 9:13 PM
