In the November Basket

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November_2007_013Typepad isn't cooperating with sidebar typelist creation these days. Here are some favorites in our basket for November:

P is for Pilgrim
Another winner from Sleeping Bear Press of our Monday Night Football Geography fame.

This First Thanksgiving Day: A Counting Story
This is a lively counting rhyme with bright, cheerful pictures. Easily memorized in time to impress the grandparents at Thanksgiving Dinner.

N. C. Wyeth's Pilgrims
This is my absolute favorite Thanksgiving book. The clear, crisp, astonishingly beautiful N. C. Wyeth paintings are so very memorable.


November_2007_012 Cranberry Thanksgiving
A Five-in-a Row favorite. It's out of print. The recipe for cranberry bread is quite good.

Autumn Across America

This is a photography book worthy of the coffee table. I can't for the life of me figure out why it's out of print. (Shhh...there are 8 used ones available at Amazon).

 

In November

Cynthia Rylant makes poetry of November. This is a sensory feast, filled with warmth and snuggling and the gathering of creatures.


We're having SUM fun now!

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Camera_dump_053There's a new math post up at Serendipity. The gnomes will be back with another adventure after Christmas. Until then, we're playing with our friend Plus. Lots and lots of ideas there for addition adventures. There's a list of living books for math and suggestions for ways to look at numbers and to represent them in pictures. Later in the week, numbers will go three-dimensional as we build equations out of clay. Camera_dump_027_2 And when the autumn winds pick up and the air gets downright nasty, consider just hanging out by the fireplace and letting your children loose on the floor with the gemstones. Camera_dump_043_2 There's no telling where they will go. (Yes, it's a soccer field. Out of gemstones. Apparently, our gnomes got game.)

My weekend project

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November_2007_009My homemaking notebook is about a year old. I have to say that I'm very grateful Kim talked me into this endeavor. And, tonight, I'm very appreciative of her gift to me. I was appreciative when she first sent me the binder and the dividers. They were beautiful and she perfectly nailed my "graphic personality." A little country, a little Susan Branch. I want Kim to come decorate my house--she could probably make it look more "me" than I can. But, now that I've undertaken a little makeover, I'm even more appreciative. It takes some effort to make these look beautiful! I recycled some of Kim's work and added some fresh paper where needed. And they're so pretty, I'm inspired all over again!

My binder was becoming big and cumbersome and was looking a little rough around the edges. So, I bought three smaller, heavyduty binders and set about to break the big binder apart. I made a kitchen binder (and named it after my kitchen blog), a "faith in our home" binder where I will keep all my notes for our family's celebrations of the liturgical year, and a home management binder for schedules and chores/cleaning routines, and everything else that was in the big book.

I'm pleased with the way they look. Very inspiring. Do you wonder what's in them?

November_2007_010 Um.

Nothing.

Yet.

I'm working on it. Stay tuned.