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Organizing Tasks & Appointments with Microsoft Office Outlook
Would you like to have one place where you can write all your appointments, make notes to yourself, keep track of projects & be reminded that an important event will be taking place (your sister’s birthday, for example)? If you have not used Microsoft Office Outlook, I would really encourage you to check it out. It’s an electronic appointment book, where there’s always plenty of room to write as many tasks as you can think of, all your appointments, read your email as well as send email and best of all you won’t mislay this notebook! One feature Outlook has is a Calendar where you can add one time occurrences or recurring events. You can…
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Week in Review 9/5/10 -“Tea in the Tropics”
Come with glee to this late morning tea… Hibiscus will be hot At 11:30 on the dot So pick up the phone and reserve yourself a scone Tropical is the fare Can we hope to see you there? Saturday we hosted a “Tea in the Tropics” tea party. Serenity started this tea club a year ago. The way our tea party club works is every 2 months a tea party is held by a different member of the tea club. Of course, moms are an important part of all the behind the scenes planning and preparing. 🙂 Some activities we did at our tea party were tissue flowers for the…
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The Unsuspecting Delights of Prickly Pear Fruit
Here in Arizona we have some really different plant life. Take the prickly pear for instance… Would you like this in your front yard? Such a warm and welcoming demeanor it has, does it not? It looks like how I feel on some days. 😀 Where are all the spines on this one? Around our house this is the kind we see. Deer enjoy its offerings… (Note: Unfortunately, this picture is not representative of the size of bucks we see in our valley. For quite a while the only buck that showed itself was one that had only one antler. The other had been broken off. Not a deer hunters…
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Enjoying the Last Bits of Summer – Tablescape
Only 1 week till my two oldest sons are back home. I’m so excited! They’ve been gone too long and I’m anxious to have all my chicks back in the nest. 😀 Oh, yes. I’m supposed to be showing you the tablescape I did this week. I’ll be happy to oblige, my friends… The weather has been quite nice in the mornings and we have been enjoying eating out on our little balcony. I find it quite challenging trying to think of new combinations for a tablescape using what I already own – and I’m only on my 3rd tablescape. You ladies that do it week after week are so…
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Recitation or Interpretive Reading
This post was originally written February 25, 2008. Recitation or Interpretive Reading achieves several things. It helps you to learn to read aloud with feeling and meaning, clarity and volume and to practice making good eye contact when speaking. Each term my children have one poet they study and each week they are given a new poem to practice. They are to read this poem aloud with feeling, practicing clarity as well. Then once a week we get together and have Poetry Tea. Julie at Brave Writer gave me this idea. I make a few snacks along with some tea, of course, and that’s it. It’s not fancy, although a few times I went out of…
