Things to write home about 1/25/09

Homegrown: Advice on Parenting & Families

The Obama girls are getting letters. The first was written by their father and published in Parade Magazine. The second was written by Jenna and Barbara Bush and published in The Wall Street Journal. They aren’t blogs, but they are sweet letters, and I wanted to share them with you.
Tina from Mummified Times Five wrote a letter to her youngest child
Heather at Not a DIY Life posted a discussion of teaching babies sign language
Leo from Zen Habits did a guest post at Simple Marriage with suggestions for making more time for your family
Joan at Simple Kids posted fun things to do outside with your kids

Caryn at Cooking and Eating Through Texas shared her mother’s recipe for corn casserole
Mel at Miss K Cooks posted a recipe for Hawaiian-style pizza puffs
Steph at Live.Love.Eat shared a recipe for coconut curry chicken soup
Rachel at A Southern Fairytale posted a recipe for pork chops in Dijon cream sauce
Kate at A Simple Walk has a recipe for a versatile bananas foster sauce
Robyn at Robyn’s Online World recounts how she made her first beef brisket
Amy from Angry Chicken shared a tip for storing chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
Michelle at Scribbit shared her recipes for homemade syrup and homemade pancakes

Micki at Pandora’s Box posted recipes for green cleaning solutions
Jill at Mom on the Run has a suggestion for making housework you hate less tedious
Mandi at Organizing Your Way suggests 10 containers that you can recycle for organizing
Danelle at Homemaker Barbi posted 14 Do-It-Yourself projects that every homemaker should be able to do
Stephanie at Stop the Ride! posted 13 uses for dryer lint

Grace is obsessed with Goldfish crackers (though she calls them birdies), and I know she’ll love these knitted goldfish that Tonya posted at Currently Crafting.
Melissa at The Inspired Room had an unfortunate DIY incident involving Super Glue
I love the simple Valentine’s cards that Jessica posted at zakka life

Have you post something this week that was worth writing Home about? Send me the link, and maybe you’ll see it here next Sunday!

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Scribbit said:

Knitted goldfish? I’ll have to check that out!

# 26 January 2009 at 12:13 pm

Mom Of Faith said:

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http://www.momoffaith.com/?p=533

# 26 January 2009 at 12:44 pm

ResourcefulMommy said:

Thank you so much for posting about the lint for the fire, but even more so for tweeting it! I’m cozying up by my nice roaring fire right now.

# 26 January 2009 at 2:01 pm

Tina said:

Thanks for link love, Tara! Much appreciated!

# 26 January 2009 at 7:20 pm

Mel said:

Thanks so much for the mention!! I’m excited to check out the other links you put up.

# 28 January 2009 at 12:46 pm

Stephanie said:

Great list. Thanks for the link love!

# 1 February 2009 at 2:48 am

Things to write home about 2/1/09 | Feels Like Home said:

[...] and her fire was not staying lit. I told her that I’d included an article about making fire starters from lint in my latest Things to Write Home [...]

# 27 February 2010 at 4:50 pm