• Meet The Freak Parade

    Me.
    The Husband.
    The Boy.
    The Girl.
    Freaky Cat.

    The Boy is 10 years old, and is currently being pulled kicking and screaming through fourth grade.

    The Girl is 4 years old, and is currently kicking booty in all things Kindergarten.

    We are eclectic homeschoolers.

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    But What in the Heck Do You Do With All of the Pumpkin?

    Thursday, October 18th, 2007

    You chop it into chunks…..bake it…..puree it….and make pumpkin bread and muffins, of course. We only had the patience to use less than half of our pumpkin. Had we used our whole pumpkin, we could have made nine loaves of pumpkin bread. Um, yeah…..we’re just not that into it.
    The ingredients are gathered, and The Boy […]

    And Then the Seeds…..

    Thursday, October 18th, 2007

    The Girl and I handled all of the seed toasting, as The Boy wanted nothing to do with any of the “goo”. We were able to persuade him to lick one when they were finished….if you call barely brushing his tongue across the very tippy top, licking.

    This is waaaaaay too much butter. Waaaaaaaay. We made […]

    Pumpkins…..

    Thursday, October 18th, 2007

    It’s been a pumpkin extravaganza here at the Freak Parade household. We went to the pumpkin patch and picked out some pumpkins. We carved one. We made pumpkin puree for pumpkin bread and muffins out of another. We toasted (er…roasted?) pumpkin seeds. We learned about pumpkins. We made pumpkin journals. We watched pumpkin […]