You know that scene in Ratatouille where Anton Ego takes the bite of the dish that’s been prepared for him, and he is transported in that moment to the happy place of his childhood home, eating the food his mother made? I had a moment like that yesterday when I prepared my mom’s cranberry relish […]
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Overview: Cooking turkey ahead of time is the best way to reduce stress on Thanksgiving day. You’ll never go back with this foolproof method! I am not exaggerating when I say that this method of cooking turkey ahead of time will CHANGE YOUR LIFE. I first heard about it many years ago from a wise
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2020 was a year that incoming college freshmen will never forget. The pandemic brought about a lockdown that made it nearly impossible to find a location for most college applicants to take an SAT or ACT. COVID-19 forced almost all colleges across the U.S. to announce a “test-optional” policy for applicants—even the selective or top-tier
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Did you know that many colleges base scholarship decisions solely on scores from college entrance exams, namely the SAT, ACT, and or CLT? While we know test scores are an artificial indication of your child’s readiness and ability to succeed in college, it is reality that they are very important for determining whether your child
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Right now I have two girls that are college students. And I love it. OK, I don’t love everything about it — it makes me feel old, for one thing (no snide comments from the peanut gallery, please), and it’s really tough to say goodbye to them after the break, for another. And sometimes the
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Well, we are just back from a whirlwind college visit. We rushed back to beat the snow, but we were not completely successful — in either beating the snow, or rushing back — as you will read below… Um. But while it’s still fresh in my mind, I thought I’d pass on some tips for
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Here we are, in the middle of the homeschool year. It’s after the holidays, and there’s a long way to go before spring break. This is when the winter blues can hit; and I don’t know about you, but at our house, we can tend to get off of our homeschool schedule. (Actually, we can
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Chocolate and pumpkin together has to be one of the best kept secrets known to man. In the age of PSL’s (Pumpkin Spice Lattés, for you uninitiated), people seem to have forgotten that chocolate and pumpkin do actually work together rather well. At least they do in this high protein shake recipe — if I
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Imagine yourself sitting down to open gifts with the family on Christmas morning, knowing that breakfast has already been taken care of — and you didn’t have to get up early to do it. Imagine only taking LITERALLY 15 minutes the night before to throw something together — something that everyone will think is to.
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Wow, it’s almost time for school to be done for the year and for summer break to begin. For many of you, anyway. Some of us homeschoolers purposely do school year-round; others of us (myself included) somehow end up that way anyway without really trying… But I don’t want to fritter the summer away this
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