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Sunday, May 06, 2012

From "crunchy" to "Cavemomma"; time to move the blog



I've been blogging over at Blogger for a year now, as "Cavemomma", and have been cross-posting here some, as well.  Now I think it's time to just blog the homeschooling adventures from one place, (there) and keep the blog here as the "attic" of my blogging life from 2003- 2012. 

I invite you to my new place: cavemomma-adventures.blogspot.com

I hope you follow me over there!
  Homeschooling life, with all the crazy experiments, happenings, and learning resources are alive and well over there.  (not *all* these things are crazy!)

I hope to see you soon!


Saturday, April 14, 2012

gymnastics and filmmaking all winter and spring..

It's been so busy, but a transition is in the works....

Here's a salute to Daughter's first competition season in gymnastics...
It was an exciting, suspenseful, and fun-filled season!


 After her last meet a few weeks ago, the first thing Daughter did was to paint her nails....(there is no nail polish allowed at meets)



Hot pink and neon orange!!  It was her way of celebrating the season, and welcoming in the off-season workouts.

Now they are learning new skills and trying new tricks at practice.
(it's fun to watch!)

And soon the parents will be invited to join the Saturday morning conditioning workout.
(I've been running up and down the hallway to get myself in shape)


And...............................


 
Son will be completing his first college course in a few weeks- it's a filmmaking course offered at our local community college.

So he is busy drawing storyboards writing scripts, participating in film shoots and editing the footage. 


Here he is in action, during the filming of a documentary at a pottery studio.  They were interviewing the instructor, and filming the firing of raku pottery that day.
 
It's been a good experience in communicating and working with others,  as well as learning about film production, and using professional equipment. 


It's been greatwinter/spring.
 It's been thrilling, it's been hard at times, too.
A real growing experience for the CaveFamily.
And now, we are all tired!
We await the summertime, when our schedule changes.
It might still be busy, but change is good.
(-:
Currently
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause: Balance Your Hormones and Your Life From Thirty to Fifty
By John Lee, Jesse Hanley, Virginia Hopkins
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Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Blurry FLower Therapy


I found a spare 5 minutes today to spend with some tiny "weed"-daisies in my backyard.  Some part of me just loves shallow depth of field, and flowers make such a beautiful and interesting study, with their multiple layers of pedally goodness.I took my 50mm portrait lens off my camera, and turned it around backwards to get this ultra-macro, ultra f.0 shallow blurry look.



These past few months have been very busy with the kids' activities, and I have had next to no time for photographing.  However, the schedule is changing for the warmer months, and I feel a glimmer of hope about having some more moments like this one today...for photography therapy.







 
A funny thought just occurred to me...as much as I love the feel of shallow dof, this is how my vision looked while trying on a pair of progressive-lensed eyeglasses.  (I should be wearing bifocals...according to my last few eye exams)  I would think I would enjoy viewing the magical world like this all the time, but not through glasses-only through the camera!

Ahhh...blurry flower therapy!



Currently
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
By William Deresiewicz
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Saturday, March 17, 2012

A natural green for St. Patrick's Day


We started off our morning with our usual smoothie- but made a special green version in honor of St. Patrick's Day.  It's a lime-coconut smoothie!  Yummy yum!

By the way...the green is a natural coloring- can you guess from which food?  More later on that.Anyway, today's smoothie was inspired by the book, Peas and Thank You: Simple Meatless Meals the Whole Family Will Love, by Sarah Matheny.  My smoothie is very loosely based on Sarah's.  We both have fresh lime juice in our smoothies, and we both share the secret ingredient that makes that natural green, but then our recipes rapidly depart from each other.  I adjusted my ingredients to pack in more anti-inflammatory healthy foods, per Andrew Weil's anti-inflammatory diet.

Have you guessed what makes the natural green yet???  Hint: it's very healthy for you...and Popeye would be pleased......Here is our St Patrick's Day smoothie recipe:

St. Patrick's Day Smoothie
1/2 pound silken tofu (1/2 of a standard carton)
1/3 cup lime juice (about 3 fresh-squeezed limes)
1 banana
1 ripe pear
ready for the secret ingredient???
1 big handful of fresh spinach leaves
1/4 tsp coconut extract (real coconut milk would be good)
1/2 to 1 cup+ almond milk (I eyeballed it)
a small handful of ice
a really good blender, or food processor, to mix it all together.

Whirl all ingredients together except for the ice- add the ice at the end when all ingredients are incorporated.  Add sweetener if you need to cut the tartness of the lime. (my fruit was ripe enough today that I didn't need any sweetener)


You'll be strong to the finish, 'cause you ate your spinach!
Serve up and enjoy!  Salud!!!

I wold recommend Peas and Thank You for some great healthy ideas for meals and snacks ...
 
Currently
Peas and Thank You: Simple Meatless Meals the Whole Family Will Love
By Sarah Matheny
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

You could hide anything in there! (butternut squash brownies)


As followers of Andrew Weil's Anti-inflammatory Diet, (not a diet really, just a very healthy way of eating), I am always modifying recipes to make them healthier- including desserts.  Yum!

I recently came across this recipe for butternut squash brownies, and had the chance to make them this past weekend.  They are delicious!!  So moist!  I modified the recipe though- I substituted half the sugar for agave syrup, and used an 85% dark chocolate bar (chopped up) for the chocolate chips.  Also, I found myself without vanilla extract, so I substituted almond extract for it. 

The results were moist, yummy, with a cherry-like/dark chocolate tartness that popped in our mouths!The dark color makes it so easy to hide healthy stuff in these brownies!  Why, you could get away with putting lots of healthy things in there!  I think next time, I will used silken tofu instead of eggs as a binder (Phytonutrients!  Yes!)  Perhaps I could sneak in a little spinach with the squash, and perhaps a banana and agave syrup could be the sweetener.  

 I'll post the recipe when I work it out, for those of you who don't flinch at the thought of weird food combinations.

¡Salud!
Currently
Peas and Thank You: Simple Meatless Meals the Whole Family Will Love
By Sarah Matheny
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