I made soup today.
1lb or 2.5 C cooked lentils
3/4 C cooked brown rice
3/4 C thinly sliced carrot
1 leek, thinly sliced (about a cup)
1/2 a medium sized onion, diced
garlic (I’d suppose as much as you like, I would have used 3 or 4 cloves, but saved it for another meal and used 1 TBS of garlic powder instead)
12 oz mushrooms sliced (any mushrooms will do; I had crimini)
4 C veggie broth
3 C water (or all your liquid could be broth)
1/2 TBS sea salt
1 tsp cracked pepper
olive oil
saute onion, leek & garlic in olive oil. when those are almost translucent, toss in carrots, mushrooms, salt & pepper and cover & continue to cook all that down.
add the rest and bring to a boil. serve with some yummy bread, toast or crackers – i’m making me a sandwich on the side.
enjoy.
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Elijah had a revelation about education:
Elijah: hey, what’s that song, ‘we don’t need no education’?
Me: I’ll look it up for you.
E: but, we do need education!
E: (after watching the video) okay, maybe not that kind of education!
thank you, Pink Floyd.
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I was unawares about a cult phenomenon around ‘alot’ until my Dear Other Half showed me the light and I read this blog post. I knew that it is quite common for people to misspell ‘a lot’, but I had no idea that the misspelling has been personified in a sense… The Internet is a beautiful place.
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thank you to those who made my birthday week great; especially when it wasn’t so great & i needed to cry.
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hoping this week holds all kind of greatness.
“[shrug] I just do my best to help them shine their divine, sparkly Light.” ~ Ordinary Life Magic: on teaching
“When school is gone, life will be left.” ~ Just Add Light and Stir
I’ve written *A LOT* about Unschooling on this here blog in the past. There’s still more to be said, I’m sure!
These days our unschooling looks a lot like:
Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic – Smooth Criminal which did lead to this Michael Jackson – Smooth Criminal
Homestar Runner
American Parkour and Russian Ninjas, Russian Climbing Ninja, Parkour in Latvia
Wednesday
Kina in South America!
Uriel Fury
Lego Board Games
Note Cards (lots of those)
Weird and crazy math problems made up for me to solve (yeah, because I have *nothing* better to do)
Countless “Let’s Play” videos on YouTube.com
Wikipedia (so much so, that we’re HIGHLY considering purchasing this)
Little Big Planet on the PS3
People (new friends, old friends, mum & dad’s new friends)
Oh Yeah!
And Food… narrowing down what it is that E doesn’t like while prodding to see what he *does* like
And of course there’s more, there always is more and more and more. It’s all life and no school. It’s Winter too – would be nice to be able to leave the house and not have to freeze. Speaking of freezing, these look cozy, but not nearly as effing cute as these (and those are made by grown unschooler, Dagny Kream).
Those of you still wanting more information on Unschooling can email me, find me on Facebook or just start reading here.
Winter: She has been cold, full of pain & growth – while I do not find comfort in her, I do not hate her.
2011: Seems to be gearing up for more pain, growth and blossoming… Universe, give me a break at some point – I only have so much ego left.
January: I thought January was going to be fun. And while parts have been, it’s just sucked in general. Hoping February will hold more rainbows & kittens.
4th Week of the Year: This week, I have successfully blogged two days in a row (three, if yinz count Saturday in there too)! I don’t know what this week holds other than getting in touch with Bryan at The Drawing Room to discuss specifics of my birthday gift to myself – the tattoo.
Monday: I talked to my friend Rachel for a long time this evening. I took a shower, which was heavenly. I thought *a lot* about things (and stuff).
Something Aesthetically Pleasing: Vogue – Madonna — Beauty, Grace & b&w imagery
Zen Moment: “Is Your Need for Control Out of Control?” — good things about Fear
School is Stupid: “I before E, except after C” — FAIL!
…GO check it out! http://yes-i-can-write.blogspot.com/2010/08/guest-post-answering-negative-questions.html
