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Living Books {My Complete Lists} & Charlotte Mason’s Ideas On Homeschooling

May 10, 2017 By Jacqueline

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The beautiful, realistic artwork of artist Daniel F. Gerhartz. For more visit his website.

Instead of reading textbooks, students should be reading ‘living books’.

Charlotte Mason was an educator from England who believed that education had three facets: a discipline, an atmosphere and a way of life. She believed we should use ‘Living books’ to teach children thoughts and ideas that breathed life, not the dry facts in textbooks. As a result, her approach is the opposite of the textbook approach. Living books are more story-like, they don’t simply present information, and their authors are passionate about their topic.

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Two-Ingredient Homemade Mint Extract

October 21, 2015 By Jacqueline

Want to add a cool, minty twist to your favorite chocolate brownies, hot cocoa, ice cream, or peppermint patties?

With this two-ingredient mint extract recipe, it takes only five minutes of hands-on time plus a little time for the extract to “age,” and soon you’ll be be stirring it into whatever else your mint-loving taste buds desire. This is the real ‘natural mint flavor’ food manufacturers are trying to imitate with unnatural processing techniques!

This mint extract can be ready by Christmas (or 2 months from reading this)! It makes a classic, inexpensive gift for the food-lovers in your life.…

Salt Sole: Never Buy Minerals Again Plus 16 Health Benefits

November 14, 2014 By Jacqueline

Have you ever heard of Salt Sole? This is what our naturopath and another doctor friend told us to give my husband when he had a heart arrhythmia to see if it was a simple mineral deficiency – and indeed it was! Let me tell you about Salt Sole, but first let me lay necessary groundwork….

Make Your Own {Non-Processed} Stevia Extract

May 12, 2014 By Jacqueline

I have been exploring what stevia to purchase. But quite honestly, I’ve never felt good about the perfectly white, flowable, processed stevia products out there.

When I was on a stock-your-pantry preparedness effort several (over 5) years ago, I bought 4 Trader Joe’s Pure Stevias. I remember thinking at the time that they were really expensive, but, hey, if things got bad and we couldn’t get things at the store, at least we had our sweetener!

What I found was that I really, really liked using it! Slowly, over time, I kept thinking about having more and MORE, and if I didn’t get to have it, I craved (felt addicted to) the stuff. I looked for things to eat to add it to even though I wasn’t hungry! Yikes!
But here’s where the sleuth in me gets going: Our daughter started having mild migraines about this same time and I experienced what I called ‘vertigo’, but I didn’t make the connection… and maybe there isn’t a connection.

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Soaking and Cooking with Grains and Beans

January 9, 2014 By Jacqueline

The science of nutrition seems to take a step backwards for every two steps it takes forward. When the study of vitamins was in its infancy, researchers realized that white flour lacked the nutrients that nature put into whole grains.

One of these researchers was Dr. Weston Price who noted in his studies of isolated, so-called “primitive” peoples that when white flour and other devitalized foods were introduced into these communities, rampant tooth decay and disease of every sort soon followed.

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Classy, Natural Elements for Fabulous Fall Decor & Color

November 6, 2013 By Jacqueline

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Natural Elements for Fabulous Fall Decor

Fall decor. Gourds, acorns and caps, feathers, bittersweet, autumn leaves, vines, Indian corn, branches. There is so much to say for bring nature’s fall bounty inside to enrich our homes and enliven our table with God’s ever-amazing creations.

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