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Cooking for a busy family

noreply@blogger.com (Leah) — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:43:00 +0000

Wouldn't it be nice if you only had to cook once a month, but your family could still eat a delicious, homemade meal every day?

Mimi Wilson and Mary Beth Lagerborg have written a book "Once a Month Cooking" to teach you how to make that happen!

Mimi and Mary Beth explain how you can prepare a month's worth of meals in just one day ! They prepare actual meals while they discuss the time-saving benefits of following their Once-a-Month Cooking system. The book gives you an assembly order and tells you step by step how you're going to put these dishes together.

Does the mention of Cranberry chicken, Brined salmon fillet, Pork roast, Spinach quiche make your mouth watering yet? It certainly will as you browse through the delicious recipes found in their book.

Find out how you can save time and money by preparing a month's worth of family meals in just one day.

The value of stay-at-home moms

noreply@blogger.com (Leah) — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:30:00 +0000

Have you the stay-at-home moms been asked what do you do all day?

Some people may think life of a stay-at-home mom is equals to sleep late, watch soap operas and surf the Internet, hardly! Many women today are choosing to forsake the corporate world, she sees parenting as a "real" job and staying home with her children is often the most fulfilling career choice a woman can make.

The feminist movement has convinced many women that the only worthwhile occupation is one that involves climbing the corporate ladder. When a woman chooses to be a stay-at-home mom, she often finds herself at odds with family, friends, neighbors and society at large. Stay-at-home moms need to be assured that their job is just as meaningful and of far more lasting value than any corporate career.

Survivor of the smack down

noreply@blogger.com (Leah) — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:19:00 +0000

Big G smacked down another blog and there is no more blog with PR except for this one that has been left alone for a while. It's going to be the "cari makan" blog until my secret new blogs get PRs. It's not going to be a long term plan, but temporary we still need the money from writing PP.

Montessori Visual Discrimination Cards DIY

noreply@blogger.com (Leah) — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:06:00 +0000

Materials needed:

The visual patterns (Right click the pictures below and choose "save target as")

set 1 set 2 set 3

Mounting boards (2 colors)

Step by step

(1)Print a copy of the first set of visual patterns.

(2) Cut them out by following the lines.

(3) Cut the mounting boards into 3"x 3" squares ( you need 6 for each colors)

(4) Paste the visual patterns on the squares (try to place in the centre)

(5) Laminate if you wish (Click here for inexpensive way of laminating)

For presentation, check out:
http://joymontessori.blogspot.com/2007/01/visual-discrimination-cards.html

Sound Cylinders DIY

noreply@blogger.com (Leah) — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:48:00 +0000

(L) The "real" stuff. (R) The DIY version.

Materials needed:
12 film canisters, a box to hold the canisters, 6 pairs of different stickers, hot glue/super glue

I used the film canisters, which you can get them free from photo developing shop.

Step by step:
(1) Fill the canisters with different materials (beans, sesame, buttons, ....etc) to produce 6 pairs of distinctive sounds. (make sure you used same quantity of materials in both)

(2) Seal the cover with hot glue or super glue.

(3) Stick the pairs of stickers on the canisters with same materials.

For presentation of the sound cylinders:
http://joymontessori.net/2007/01/sound-cylinders.html

Montessori Movable Alphabets DIY

noreply@blogger.com (Leah) — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:45:00 +0000

A step by step guide to DIY the Montessori movable alphabets, used in teaching language as in writing the words without have to hold a pencil to write.

http://joymontessori.net/2007/03/movable-alphabets-diy.html

Dressing Frames DIY

noreply@blogger.com (Leah) — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:40:00 +0000

Thought I will repost and migrated this from the other Montessori blog that I have.

http://joymontessori.net/2007/03/dressing-frames-diy.html

Ideas for DIY Montessori Materials

noreply@blogger.com (Leah) — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:56:00 +0000

I am going to move all the DIY ideas from the other blog Montessori Blog (http://joymontessori.net) to here and post new DIY ideas here.