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rred husks 2 cups shredded coconut 2 cups pureed pumpkin 2 tbsp pumpkin pie spice directions melt butter add honey and molasses until all warmly blended together assemble dry ingredients in 2 big pots or bowls no raisins yet kids are ideal helpers for this let them use their clean hands to get everything integrated add wet ingredients honey butter molasses pumpkin puree and stir very well lay moistened ingredients about 1 2 inch thick on cookie sheets and or casserole pans bake at 300f for 60 minutes if containing pumpkin 40 minutes without pumpkin or until a nice roasty brown color you ll need to stir up the granola once every 10 minutes or so and break up any really big pumpkiny clumps because they won t dry out enough to store for a long time oats for the apocalypse incidentally oats are a starred food in the book the 150 healthiest foods on earth on account of the beta glucan immune system avenanthramide anti inflammatory low glycemic load easy on the pancreas this part the mixing of the dry ingredients makes the kids feel like they have access to wondrous grown up things like what a multitude of sesame seeds before oats are added with a kid s mixey hand everything added and ready for baking pans makes a good bedtime snack in bed linking up with simple lives thursday share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email 16 comments from kitchen alchemy a few things happy hanukkah december 10 2012 1 winner of the book giveaway preemie lessons in love life and motherhood is jeanne december 4 2012 6 11 pm i would love to win this read it and then donate to our local library jeanne please send me your address via e mail and i will pass it onto kasey and louisa holt for goodness sakes i ll just bring my copy over to you across the street xo 2 ruth cutcher of guitar dojo is offering the parent class value 150 free to new students who sign up for the spring semester starts jan 7 2013 just mention your friends at 6512 and growing to read more about the guitar dojo go here and here 3 tomorrow pumpkin granola recipe as requested 4 hanukkah is in full swing at our house swing being the operative word happy 3rd night of hanukkah dear ones share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email 11 comments from homelife sponsors homestead happenings earnest goodwill december 6 2012 we re on a family hike and rose is walking ahead of me turning around regularly like the loyal family canine charged with keeping the pack together rose mama can you sneak a little pinch on my butt while we walk me just do it or surprise you rose surprise me right now meanwhile col seeks the projectile essence of every rock stick and pine cone but grabs my hand often enough for me not be too scared of anyone turning 8 next month it s a little shakespearian around here lately there s the comedy of rose asking this morning is mississippi a country or actually a planet and then the utter tragedy of col waking up at 5 00 am parting the curtains to determine if it was light enough to justify legos and singing and thusly popping out of bed to do both next the tragedy real tears of col choosing to watch inspector gadget when rose wanted curious george even though she gave col first pick later the comedy of col slapping hand to forehead oh that was the moon light this is why children are our best teachers they lead us to the cliff of sparkly rainbows where we sigh gratefully for this life these babies the whole cherry pie of motherhood and then 10 minutes later we re all falling down that same cliff the one perched above the nest of poisonous snakes snakes who won t go to bed at night who won t wear a hat when it s 2of outside and who invent dubious sibling poker matches i ll see your blood drawing scratch and raise you a small kick in the shin but truly all i ever remember by the blessed end of the day by the time i m ghosting through the kids darkened room pulling blankets over slumbering bodies those bodies that sleeping appear to be cobbled out of such earnest goodwill that i imagine them exhaling world peace in their sleep all i remember is the joy of parenting that like cream always rises to the top on the homestead like probably everyone in southwest colorado we ve been surfing the limbo of eagerly anticipating the snowy hammer of winter dropping and also rolling around in the dry grassy sun like a pack of happy dogs which is to say we ve been hiking without jackets and that ain t right but it feels so good the kids wanted to run all the way back to the car we explained that if they wanted to run we d have to take the long route rather than the steep rocky short cut long way they said and exploded down the trail despite being the homiest of homebodies col recently told me his winter goal was simply to stay inside oy the types who tend not to leave the comfort of our own zip code we got a little crazy and took a day trip to pagosa springs 2 zip codes away for dan s birthday we spotted a hot air balloon landing and zrrrrrtttt turned the car around parked ran down a private driveway note dan did not approve of this while i m of the mind that no one can get too ticked off about children running joyously towards an 18th century mode of flight and arrived in time to see the entire landing also we make u turns for wild turkeys naturally the hot springs are cheapest on tuesday but they offer a local s discount every day super sulfury and be sure to take off your silver jewelry there s about 10 15 different pools plus the agony ecstasy of the frigid san juan river to cool off in we visited the rocky mountain wildlife park just a few miles past pagosa which is like a zoo in the sense that the animals are captive most born in captivity many rescued from bad situations but not like a zoo in that the animals have largish enclosures in their native habitat if you go go for the 2pm feeding time in which a very knowledgeable person tells you interesting stories and answers all your questions while wolves devour 5 pounds of raw meat in 2 minutes without actually chewing the kids and i loved it dan was much more excited about the hundreds of deer we saw on the road between chimney rock and arboles predator meets prey big tough bull elk eating fruit salad knobby deformed antler that weighed more than my kids who admittedly run pretty small wild ish turkeys and feral rabbits hobnob at entrance to wildlife park we will survive the apocalypse with kraut and sour cabbagey breath and pumpkin granola before baking pre bake use your normal granola recipe and add about 1 2 cups pumpkin puree to each gallon mix thoroughly and bake 20 30 extra minutes or until completely dry wait do you all need a granola recipe will consider posting one if i get 3 or more hallelujahs after rose feels best when she s really really close to the people she loves which is exactly how we like it our new homeschool unit is bookmaking which makes my heart soar with literary happiness annie of alphabet glue has been our fairy godmother in this department col s sasquatch book rose made a book for dan and where i ve been known to be a little anxious about col and his academics with rose i m like you just shine your earnest goodwill across the land and everything will take care of itself not sure if this is neglect or the best gift i can give her the illustration of sunday morning drives with dada all of a sudden there s 4 people in the car nope fooled me too rose has climbed in the front seat with dan for a better view of the animals while the car is stopped of course apparently col drew the car on this page we re reading huckleberry finn right now which is an interesting bedtime book what with the chapter titled the house of death floats by plus huck s perennially drunk dad the school beatings from teachers and of course the whole slave issue the kids appear to be loving it though rose does ask regularly and nervously is this fiction or non fiction i am gorging on mary karr right now re reading lit and just got cherry from the library she is the master memoirist and just as mark twain makes being shoeless floating down the mississippi river sound exciting mary karr does the same for growing up with knife wielding mothers we bought the kids a clock and instructed that it was only safe to eject themselves from the covers if the first number on the clock was a 6 they ve been rocketing into our room at 6 01 am and at 6 02 this morning rose was counting to 60 with headachy exuberance twenty times due to my promise to make her breakfast in 20 minutes which sort of defeated the whole point of 20 more minutes of morning amnesty tragedy or comedy with love and gratitude rachel share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email 36 comments from homelife homeschool in the woods lessons in love life and motherhood a giveaway december 4 2012 thank you everyone who participated in raising money for the march of dimes especial thanks to the perennial lurkers who revealed themselves that wasn t too scary was it i always love hearing from everyone there is still time to leave a comment which is the easiest way in history to raise money i like how money can be used to heal and protect and preserve and i also like using words to do the exact same work kasey mathews wrote the book i wish i had in my hand when i was yoga breathing my way down the halls of university hospital preparing every single time to see my wisp of a baby whose health status fluctuated like the stock market i slurped up kasey mathews book preemie lessons in love life and motherhood in two days this book is the brave account of how she grew into her own motherhood through reckoning with the extreme prematurity of her daughter andie born at 25 weeks it s user friendly and raw and honest and entirely lovely this book is for all mothers who ve ever found motherhood to be different than their expectations which i m guessing would be something like well all of us as the fabulous katrina kenison author of the gift of an ordinary day says this lovely memoir is about letting go of assumptions moving into the place that scares us most and discovering that what we get in return for our surrender is nothing less than grace an interview with kasey mathews 1 were you a writer before you wrote preemie writing has always been my solace my passion my meditation my favorite sound in the world is a pencil scratching across paper for years i led creative writing workshops and inspired hundreds of children to write i wrote alongside them and delighted in the pure joy of writing others often urged me to submit my work for publication but i never felt compelled to do so it wasn t until we moved to a quiet hillside in new hampshire that i felt the strong calling to write preemie i was so naive and soon discovered that writing the book was almost easy compared to getting it published it was a long hard road and i continually had to return to why i wrote the book reminding myself of all the others i believed would find healing in our story 2 how was it emotionally to write this book intense powerful amazing healing joyous as you know from having a preemie the nicu experience is a continual up and down roller coaster ride writing the story was the same i had to dig so deep and put myself right back there standing in those same shoes looking through those same scared eyes in all those situations that had brought me to my knees in the first place it often took me weeks to accurately capture a particular crisis moment digging deeper and deeper with every draft i knew i d finally gotten there when i was so wrung out i had nothing left to give the flipside were the joyous moments where i witnessed my own growth and ultimately understood the corresponding lessons it was a wild ride indeed and would certainly have been easier if i hadn t pulled the curtain all the way back but i knew the story would suffer if i didn t reveal myself wholly and completely to the reader 3 are there any remaining marks of andie s prematurity i was contemplating this question staring into the woodstove while andie made a batch of her favorite challah bread french toast in the kitchen behind me i thought of the colds that years ago left her sleeping next to a nebulizer inhaling albuterol every two hours and how we still knock on wood every time we speak of the time that has passed since she s needed a treatment i thought of her grace and ability on soccer fields ski courses and backs of horses and i thought about her intensity competitiveness and need for perfection were those traits of prematurity or just who she is and just as that thought crossed my mind andie looked up from the griddle and asked mom do you think i freak out so much because i was a preemie i shook my head and laughed telling her i had no idea and then read her what i d just wrote 4 what do you want to tell every mother who has a premature child in the nicu breathe if you re afraid say it out loud i m afraid bring those emotions to light so they can t breed and grow in the dark create a vision of your child in the future walking on the beach coming down the slide at the playground running through a grassy meadow and hold that vision remember that statistics are just numbers and don t let others limit your child s potential know that so many others have walked this path before you and that whatever you are thinking and feeling is not wrong and you are not crazy never ever lose hope drink lots of water 5 who are your writing inspirations i love to learn and grow and find inspiration by witnessing the journey of others through books a quick glance at my bookshelf would tell you that i m partial to women writers barbara kingsolver anne lamott pam houston and a new addition kristen kimball who wrote a fabulous memoir called the dirty life memoirs about ordinary people who find themselves facing extraordinary circumstances are often among my favorites right about the time i started my first draft of preemie i came across a memoir called here if you need me by kate braestrup i read that book in one sitting and knew immediately that i d found the model for my book it s about a woman in her mid thirties who s left to raise her four children alone when her maine state trooper husband is killed on the job it was her unwavering honesty and how she wove humor into circumstances that were anything but funny that impressed me most her wry voice was so clear and so certain that i felt like she was reading the book to me i can only hope i came somewhat close to achieving a fraction of her brilliance kasey is giving away 1 copy of preemie lessons in love life and motherhood to a reader of 6512 leave a comment below to be entered in the drawing giveaway ends december 1oth share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new 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