I am addicted to watching Molly!

Molly the barn owl, that is. Have you seen it yet? Molly is a barn owl in California who is currently sitting on a nest with 5 (or 6?) eggs. McGee (the male of the pair) brings her food and you can watch her eat it right there in the owl box! It is amazing! If you follow the chat next to it, you can sometimes catch answers to questions about the owls from the people who are providing the feed, and from other folks knowledgeable about owls. I'm now looking for resources so we can learn a bit more about barn owls and all my time spent watching them will not be completely wasted! Go check it out!

Edited to add:
I just got my clickschooling e-mail of the day, and this is the feature! But she had a different site for the feed. It doesn't have the chat, but the picture is bigger. You can access it here! Oh, and it also explained. She WAS sitting on 6 eggs, but one cracked, so there are 5 eggs remaining.

St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day is one of my favorite holidays. My mom was Irish. She liked St. Patrick's day, though I will say that the celebration consisted mostly of wearing green! So we wear green. But we also try to do a little more. We eat green foods and, usually, I make Irish stew and Soda bread for dinner.

This year, though, St. Patrick's Day was packed with mostly non-St. Patrick's Day stuff. We did go and do a St. Patrick's Day craft with my MOMS Club in the morning, and we had a green lunch. The afternoon, however, was spent at a homeschool gathering to learn about reptiles and amphibians. Then we went to the park with some friends--hey, when the weather turns pleasant, you have to take advantage of it! We didn't get home until, well, not early enough to make stew and bread. Kutey has gymnastics on Wednesday evenings, so we had to eat and head out.

It was a fun day, just not terribly St. Patricky!

Here is the meal we had at lunch. The kids love food in a muffin tin, so we did another muffin tin meal :)



This is the craft we did:

TERRIBLE picture. I had to cut it out of another poor picture. I'll try to get a better picture!

Hope your St. Patrick's Day was lovely!

Whipping Cream Jell-o

My kids adore Jell-o. In their eyes, you can never have it often enough. I came across this just before St. Patrick's day last year, and I knew we had to try it. They liked it enough that it made a repeat appearance this year! I made it for Muffin Tin Monday's green themed tin, but it will come back on Wednesday for the big day.

Since I spent a good deal of time this weekend looking for the recipe to make it, I am going to type it up here. You should, however, click through to see how beautiful it is! I have pictures, but mine are not nearly as pretty!

Whipping Cream Jell-o
2 (3 oz.) boxes of Jell-o (any flavor, but for St. Patrick's Day, we used lime)
2 cups boiling water
3/4 cup whipping cream

Dissolve the Jell-o in the boiling water. Pour in a flat dish (I used a 9 x 9 glass baking dish--I actually just mixed it all in the pan--less dishes that way!). Let stand for about 10 minutes. Mix in the whipping cream. (The cream will float on top of the Jell-o. The kids love to watch it spread across the top.) Chill until set. Cut in squares and serve (or get fancy like they do here).

Simple, no? And tasty! This time I ended up using a box of lime jello and a box of lemon jello. I forgot I needed 2 when the shopping was done, so I had to go with what I had. It was either make a half batch or mix and match. The lemon-lime combination is good and it still comes out very green, so it was good.

Muffin Tin Monday--Green

It's Muffin Tin Monday again! This week's theme was green. I love making green tins. I don't know what it is, but green is my favorite tin to make. This one had fresh fruits and vegetables that made it seem to ooze spring! With temperatures in the 50's and all of our snow gone, it was quite appropriate.

Here they are!


Kiddo's:

Top row: Spinach noodles
Middle row: lettuce, bell peppers, repeat
Bottom row: grapes, lemon-lime whipping cream J*ll-o(also posted here)
I also added a little shamrock. It is made out of leftover conversation hearts.

And here is Kutey's:


The kids loved this tin! Kiddo asked if we could have all the same green foods on Wednesday, when we'll be eating green again for a certain holiday. I might have a few other foods up my sleeve so to speak, so hopefully it won't be an exact duplicate! Check back later in the week to see what our Wednesday meal is.

Muffin Tin Monday--Yellow

The color themes for Muffin Tin Monday are still rolling. This week was yellow. I have been fighting a terrible cold, it is Kutey's birthday, and I feel like yellow didn't turn out as well as it could have, but here it is!


Macaroni and cheese, applesauce, peaches, and yellow bell pepper.

After the fact I realized I could have made corn muffins, we could have had corn or eggs, I had bananas and Jell-o I planned to serve, but didn't. Looks like yellow might have to make a return visit in a few weeks!

Updating the backlog...again

I have a backlog of posts. I am hoping that over the next week or so I will be able to get several of them up. I'll be backdating them (since I use the blog as sort of a timeline of our school year, too), but if you read via a reader, you'll just get a mish-mash of posts. Sorry for that. Enjoy the posts!

Muffin Tin Monday--Themeless 5

It's Muffin Tin Monday--again? Already? Where did the week go?
It was fortunate that this week was themeless, as we had a quick stop at home to eat between Lego playgroup and Art class. WHEW! It was a busy day.

Here is what I tossed into the tins:


Fish sticks, sweet potato fries, tartar sauce, apple sauce, carrots, and dried apricots (for Kiddo, Kutey doesn't like them).

Looks a little blah, doesn't it! The kids made no complaints, however, and ate it all in good time so we could move on to the next activity!

I am looking forward to the yellow theme next week! We have kind of already done yellow, but I have a couple of new things to try, too!