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The Homeschool Blog Awards

I just discovered that some really nice person nominated me for the Best Homeschool Mom Blog in this year’s Homeschool Blog Awards! Wow!  I feel so honored!  Whoever you are, thank you! These awards involve voting, so if you agree with that very nice person, you can vote for Tea Time with Annie Kate.  Up […]

Keeping the Home Fires Burning

“Keep the home fires burning.”  That used to be just a saying to me.  For warmth, I would simply flick a switch or turn a knob.  Until we got a fireplace insert to heat our home.  Then I learned about the realities of waking up in a cold house and starting a fire, about kinds […]

Review: A Simpler Season by Jessica Fisher

As wonderful as the upcoming festive season is, no one will deny that it can be stressful.  Guests, food, parties, gifts, and activities often compete with what we really want to be celebrating.  And that’s a problem.  But it is possible to celebrate sanely, and Jessica Fisher, homeschooling mom of six, author, and blogger, helps […]

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving

There is so much to be thankful for, isn’t there?  We all have adequate food, clothing, shelter, and so much more.  Compared to much of the world’s population, both now and throughout history, we are incredibly blessed. But even in terrible times, believers are to be thankful.  I am always astonished and humbled by this […]

Second Breakfast, Hobbit Style

Seventy-five years ago last Friday, Tolkien published The Hobbit.  That book, together with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, changed the literary world.  Miss 14 decided that we should celebrate by enjoying a second breakfast, as hobbits would.  So she gathered recipes, planned, and, early Friday morning, started cooking.  Miss 10 helped her, dressed in […]