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I am Tricia. Momma of nine, homeschooler, artist, foodie and maker of all kinds of things. It's a pleasure to share here our family homesteading adventures, the things we make, and what inspires our days. Read more about my family and work here. Thanks for visiting!

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Matching crocheted pinafores for a waldorf baby and her little momma

By on November 30, 2011 in crochet, Handmade Christmas Challenge, Waldorf, Yarn Along
Feverishly working on Christmas presents, night and day!  Right now my list is so big that every little mistake I make seems to make my list bigger : (  I am taking it in stride because in the end they will love and remember whatever I made them and my need for perfection will be for not.

I have been working on anothe gift which is part of the Knit along over at Frontier Dreams but I am having such a hard time with my terrible knitting skills that I could not bear to take a picture : (  To see what it should look like visit the most amazing Nicole.

Please allow me to apologize for my pictures today.  Truth is I forgot to take the pictures during the day and the lighting in my house is terrible (did I ever tell you to never take pictures at night, they come out sucky).
On my list for Ronnie and Livie are a pair of new Waldorf babies and I thought I would make some matching crocheted dresses for Livie and her new baby (in all the spare time I have right?).  I really like the way it is coming out though I writing and rewriting the pattern which means ripping and ripping out my stitches but in the end I will have hopefully a pair of dresses that my babies love and a pattern to make more in the future.  I am thinking it would be cuter to make the top of the pinafore crocheted and then add fabric as the body of the dress starting under the arm pits, what do you think?
Yarning along with Ginny again this week. I am reading Little House Christmas, which is one of our favorite reads during advent and Christmas.  

I am sneaking in one last picture down here because the lighting is so supermarketish in the pic but it does show the top of the dress better, so sorry!



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very thankful

By on November 28, 2011 in Holidays, Recipes, Traditions
The past week has been one big blur…  So much is going on around here, so many things to do and decide.
It seemed as though I came home from New York and three days later it was Thanksgiving.  Our Thanksgiving was wonderful, full of lots of food and music, surrounded by Poppa and our children.  Can we as mothers really ask for anything more?  I did not pull of any new Thanksgiving outfits this year but we were all together, safe and warm and enjoyed each others company for the day.  Lots of movies on the couch and casseroles, pots and pans covering every inch of counter space.
I wanted to share two little parts of our Thanksgiving celebration with all of you. 
The first is our sage sausage and berry stuffing which I promised to share with a friend.
1 pound ground pork sausage
1/2 cup total of chopped onion, celery and green bell pepper
1/2 cup dried berries (raisins, cherries, blueberries, whatever you like)
1 large Granny Smith apple
1 tbsp flour
2 tsp dried sage
1 can chicken broth
6 ounces cornbread stuffing
Preheat the oven to 450 F.  Crumble sausage into pan and sautee, add onion, celery and bell pepper and then the berries.  Cook until the sausage is well browned. (This tastes pretty good without the sausage too for my non-meat eating friends ; )  While the sausage mixture is cooking, peel and chop apple into small pieces.
Stir the flour into the sausage and cook for a few minutes.  Stir in the apple, broth and stuffing mix until all blended.  Grease your baking dish and transfer the stuffing to the baking dish.  Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.
The second I want to share is our Thankful Jar.
The thankful jar is a little tradition that we keep from year to year.  Everyone is to write at least 5 things they were thankful for in the past year.  They each write them on a slip of paper and put them in the jar.  This year Erica decided to cut them with a fancy scissor which made it hard to keep them from jumbling up together.  At dinner we remove the previous years slips and that brings forth so many memories and little things that we may have forgotten about, then we read this years and put them in the jar.  I keep the slips of paper from all the previous years together in a box to read someday when everyone is all grown up.  You could also do this for New Years and I think it would be great.
The day after the Thanksgiving festivities were over, Poppa and I had to leave for a meeting in Miami 
(more on the tomorrow) and it was so hard leaving my kids behind but I did get to spend the night at my parents house and that was wonderful though much too short.  We got back yesterday and crashed in a bed.  I am hoping to have a much more productive week this week.  I hope to share my advent preparation sometime this week and the rest of the photos from my New York trip.
What have you all been up to?

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