Mulberries

Recipes or things to try...

Mulberry Cobbler DONE
Mulberry Muffins
Mulberry Pie
Mulberry Jam DONE
Mulberry Wine
Freezing Mulberries DONE

Kiva Loans May 2010

This month we made loans to:

Thong in Cambodia

Thong needed a loan to improve her rice farming business.

Jiguitougou Group in Mali

This group needed a loan to improve their millet, peanuts, and bean farming business. 

Mother's Day Poem

I found this poem...or lullaby...or whatever it is called...in one of my homeschooling discussion groups. I really like it...it's about a messy house...but mom is doing something more important...so true...and I need to remember this more often.

"Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth,
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
Hang out the washing and butter the bread,
Sew on a button and make up a bed.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.
Oh, I've grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue
(Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
(Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo).
The shopping's not done and there's nothing for stew
And out in the yard there's a hullabaloo
But I'm playing Kanga and this is my Roo.
Look! Aren't her eyes the most wonderful hue?
(Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
For children grow up, as I've learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep."