This is really stuff I’ve been into over the past couple of months.  It feels like every month I don’t have much to say – a SAHM who homeschools really does have a lot of monotony, haha, but after a couple of months I can come up with a list.

 

We got snow again this winter. I’m ready for the Virginia winters that everyone brags about, but the kids have loved having snow.  I learned not to drive on the highway when it snows in the south. Going 25 miles at 25 mph will take you a while to get home!

 

 

We joined a homeschool co-op last fall, and this semester all the kids are taking a class and we are doing a geography club co-op type class on Mondays, which makes for two long days. And the girls started Girl Scouts and we’re in the throes of learning about cooking selling. But they are having a blast and we’re all finally making some good friends.

 

Books I’ve Been Reading:

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Steal the North

Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography If you love Laura Ingalls Wilder you have to read this book.

Shine Shine Shine I got this book out of curiosity since the author teaches at our co-op, and it slayed me. It’s about love, motherhood, being unique, and being human. I’m kind of in awe of her now 🙂

Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America This is by Emmett Till’s mother, and I’m not quite done with it yet, but it’s a really good, hard book.

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East I read this with SheLoves, a little late, and I was stunned by what I learned in this book. It’s a fascinating story, and gives a side of Israel that I didn’t want to believe was true.

 

 

On My Shelf:

Really excited to start reading Tara Owens’ Embracing the Body. I learned about Incarnation a couple of years ago, and it really seeped into my core, so I can’t wait to dive into this one.

Another interesting one in the picture you might not be able to see is Second Person Singular. This was recommended to me on Twitter the other day by Amy Board and it’s another book about the Israel/Palestinian conflict, if you liked The Lemon Tree.

 

Instagram:

 

This picture reminded me of Anne’s post about decision fatigue, and I realized we eat nearly the same thing for lunch every day and it’s delicious. So, two ‘recipes’.

Slow saute peppers and onions until they look gorgeous. Grill sweet italian sausages, or chicken and apple sausages (omg yum), and make some rice. Cut up the sausage on top of the rice, put the peppers and onions on top, add a good dose of balsamic vinegar and sea salt. Super easy and delicious lunch.

Our other meal we eat at least once a day consists of: grilled seasoned chicken, cut up over rice, with half an avocado and a fair amount of goat cheese added on top. Add a lot of balsamic vinegar and sea salt on top. So creamy, good, and healthy.

 

TV:

I stalled out on Gilmore Girls awhile ago, and we finished Season 7 of Doctor Who and haven’t moved on. The kids want to watch it, so I think we’ll just start it over, and hopefully by then, Season 8 will be on Netflix.

We’ve been watching How I Met Your Mother for a couple months now. We are in the middle of Season 7, and I’ve been warned about the ending.

 

Movies I’ve Been Watching:

About Time – go watch it. Oh my gosh. One of the best movies ever.

Selma

Wedding Ringer

The Imitation Game – loved this so much.

Boyhood – I thought it was amazing.

Good Morning Vietnam

Gone Girl – I loved the book and I loved the movie. The ending in the movie wasn’t quite as good as the book. It didn’t feel like it made as much sense as it did in the book.

Women Aren’t Funny – very eye-opening look into the world of comedy and how sexist it is.

We’re spending a lot more time in the car this semester, so we’ve started getting documentaries to watch.

National Parks by Ken Burns – I’m imagining the pictures are gorgeous and it’s making us dream about a road trip out west. But I was really struck by how arrogant Americans can sound when they talk about America. Wow.  We also paused the dvd to talk about the wording they used in the video. They called taking over Indian land a ‘shameful mistake’, which implies it was an accident, and oh well, nothing we can do about it. But it’s not a mistake. It’s built into the system, and so it can be fixed. We had a long shouting-to-the-back-of-the-van conversation about terminology when talking about America and how so much injustice still continues today.

Ansel Adams – I was so impressed with the bits about Ansel’s dad and all he did to encourage a very unique little boy.

Sister Wendy – The kids loved this one. I was cracking up as she talked about Pompeii. ‘Not to sound ungrateful, but it really is a provincial little town and didn’t preserve any great works of art’. LOL.

 

My favorite funny thing: 

Linking up with Leigh

 

 

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