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Gluten-Free Fruit Crumble Bars: Our New Recipe
I haven’t really enjoyed baking or cooking for many years. Looking back on it, I think my aversion toward it correlates with adding children into our family. There were just a lot of things that became difficult to maintain (like cleaning our house every week). Baking and cooking for fun fell lower and lower down the list. Making these gluten-free fruit crumble bars marks a slow shift in my life. I actually enjoyed making it!
The shift actually started during our last vacation. We were on Catalina Island and we walked to the grocery store to pick up food. Then I spent an hour or so making food for … Read More
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Coronavirus Homeschooling: What We Are Doing
We are heading into Week 4 of school being canceled in Austin, TX. We are anticipating the need to shelter in place for the long haul (until there is a vaccine?). So I worked with the staff at our school to come up with a coronavirus homeschooling approach. Our school is intentionally one of the most diverse schools in the entire city of Austin—racially, culturally, and socioeconomically. Therefore, we wanted a plan that could serve all families.
We decided to go with primarily digital apps for a variety of reasons. First, synchronous learning can be really hard. For families with multiple children, you would need to make sure there’s … Read More
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Simple Bread Recipe: My Favorite!
I’m not one of those people who is going crazy on Pinterest trying to find activities for my children to do during the pandemic. For the most part, our lives follow a regular routine. Matt homeschools the boys for 2-3 hours each morning. They play before lunch. They work with me to make lunch, and then we picnic and swim in the pool. Then it’s 2-3 hours of choice screen time in the afternoon and then they play around again (mainly legos and make believe). They also listen to a lot of audio books, build forts, and eat snacks. However, Tate has been begging me to help him make gluten-free … Read More