Christmas Decorating Styles

Walking around my neighborhood, and especially thinking of one particularly obnoxious example, I came to the conclusion that there are three basic Christmas decorating styles.  (Yes, I was avoiding thinking about Congressional shenanigans, 1 am votes, and all that junk.)
1.  Classic.  Predominantly white or multi-colored lights.  Green wreaths, usually red bows.  Maybe, if someone’s getting  [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday: Christmas Preps

Well, it’s coming up on that time of year again!  Thanksgiving is coming over, which, for many of us, means trying to maintain a prayerful attitude through Advent while getting ready for guests, gifts, more decorating and shopping than we do the rest of the year, and an overall sense of holiday craziness.
In hopes that some of [...]

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The Birthday Cake

… because, frankly, I’ve seen very little news lately, due to my visiting sister-in-law.  A whole lot of talking, a ton of family time, and not much time for news.  She’s great for that.  So, instead, let’s talk cake!
Originally, Crash wanted an army-themed birthday.  Something with parachuters and tanks.  Yeah, okay, I can do that.  [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday: New Camera

At long last, we have acquired a new camera (the previous one, after a long struggle, finally succumbed to its Diva-inflicted injuries).  The vagaries of technology and markets being what they are, the new camera cost significantly less than the old one, has more functions, takes sharper pictures, etc., etc.  (Gotta love the free market, at least while [...]

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Happy Moon Festival!

Today is/was the Chinese holiday of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival.
In Western cultures, we usually see the “man in the moon”, but the Chinese see the Jade Rabbit, pounding a mortar and pestle to make the pill of immortality.  (If you still see the man, look at the right eye (your right side as you’re looking at [...]

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The more things change…

Being a homeschooler is fascinating.  All that history we never talked about?  Well, now I get to explore it in depth and with a lot more lessons in “history is interesting because it is made by real people” and a lot less of “memorize these disconnected dates and names until you hate history and everyone [...]

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Go to the happy place…

I’m not as doom-and-gloom as you might think from just reading my blog.  Really, I have a lot of life going on outside of politics, most of it pretty happily contented.  Which is part of why I blog: I want to see those things protected.
So, tonight, I offer some stuff that makes me happy, and [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday: What I’ve Learned This Summer

 

Summer has officially set in; it’s been a weird week.  So, I offer you a short, curious, and (hopefully) fascinating hodge podge of interesting homemaking and homeschooling how-to’s.
1.  How to keep homeschooling all summer.  My intent, whenever anyone asked, was that we would keep homeschooling all summer, just on a more laid-back schedule.  Diva was supposed [...]

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Under construction…

If you visit semi-regularly, you may have noticed some changes.  Having been at this for almost a year now, I really wanted to make The Political Housewyf a little more personalized.  (Yes, this will be a completely fluff post.  I’m tired.  I just spent 3.5 hours cleaning out my in-laws’ filing cabinets.  Public service announcement: [...]

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How health care rumors get started…

So, we were all just in the door from an hour of high-velocity fun at the local park.  I had an hour of peace and quiet, sitting at a bench in the shade, reading A Medieval Home Companion: Housekeeping in the Fourteenth Century.  The kids tore around the park, chasing birds and other kids.  Needless to [...]

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