Slices of Life

We decided to try something different this year and joined a poultry CSA. Unlike the vegetable CSA the meat box is only for pick up once a month. We decided to just try their poultry products this year. The farm is family owned and prides themselves on being the largest grower of pasture raised turkeys in Connecticut. Reading about their growing practices really made me want to support them!   We were not expecting them to be frozen solid when we picked them up though. But it has worked out great as far as keeping them fresh and making sure we will use every single item up.  Each month I am sent a survey and I get to pick 1 item from each grouping in the questionnaire so I do have some say in what our boxes hold. CSA Meat box #1 (June): a very large whole chicken, 3 packages of ground turkey, a turkey breast, 2 chicken thighs and one chicken breast.  It all went right into the freezer but we used 2 of the ground turkey packages to make some homemade burger pa...

*Originally posted January 10, 2014 when the boys were 7, 8, & 10  I had so much planned for today but the morning kind of got away from me and it was late by the time we sat down to start school.  Then the snow started so we rushed to finish up our schoolwork and head outside. We try so hard to seize the day in our homeschool. We often set aside our schoolwork when the snow is calling or when we have those perfect sunny days in early spring. While schoolwork is important, I know that my boys are always learning.  There are lessons that are more important than what they find in a book.  Lessons can be found in nature, lessons can be found in life... and sometimes the best lessons are those that aren't planned. Sometimes, like today, we try to do a bit of schoolwork but we almost always set aside our work in favor of learning through play. Luckily, even with rushing through our schoolwork I was able to see quite a bit of growth and progress for all three ...