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Every once in a while and totally unintentionally my brain spews out a good idea.

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Pledge of Allegiance FHE

June 21, 2009 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} Leave a Comment

This family home evening lesson teaches the history of the Pledge of Allegiance and what it means. Also includes a chart to learn the pledge in sign language. If you don’t have a scribd account click here to download from 4share. For some reason the lessons are printing really big, cutting some of the images […]

Filed Under: Family Home Evening Lessons, History, Independence Day Tagged With: Independence Day, US History

Star-Spangled Banner FHE

June 14, 2009 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 3 Comments

The next four weeks I will be posting family home evening lessons that teach about the US Flag, Pledge of Allegiance, Patriotism, and the Preamble to the US Constitution. It is a nice way to lead up to the Independence Day celebrations you will have will your family while at the same time teaching them […]

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Cool Summer Days Paper Calendar Tutorial

June 7, 2009 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 9 Comments

Upon posting the sewing tutorial for the Cool Summer Days Calendar I received many comments from those who don’t sew but would still like one. Here’s a paper version I came up with. It’s fairly easy – just print, cut, paste, laminate, make a few more cuts, and tape together. It only takes about one […]

Filed Under: Crafts, Ingenious Ideas, Printables Tagged With: Summertime, Tutorials

Quesadillas

June 6, 2009 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 6 Comments

Quesadillas are a quick go to meal at our house. It’s easy to vary the filling depending on what you have on hand. We broil ours in the oven for a crunchy tortilla. Pictured here is a chicken and black bean filling. Quesadillas (basic) 6 flour tortillas2 cups shredded cheese, monterey jack, cheddar, or pepper […]

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: dinner, quesadillas

Oh What Do You Do in the Summertime {2}

May 31, 2009 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 18 Comments

Here’s a reposting of my summer activity list from last year. It has been updated with more ideas to have fun with your children this summer. I always feel so sad for those children whose parents dread the end of school, who fear having their children home all day, who don’t enjoy their children. Now […]

Filed Under: Crafts, Ingenious Ideas Tagged With: Organize, Summertime

Strawberry Torte

May 30, 2009 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 2 Comments

Last month for Relief Society we had a progressive “Dinner Around the World.” We had an appetizer from Ecuador, a main dish from England, and this Strawberry Torte from Germany. I was asked to make the torte. The recipe is actually fairly simple but does require time. It tastes heavenly!!!! I changed the instructions of […]

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: dessert

Cool Summer Days Calendar Tutorial

May 29, 2009 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 72 Comments

Last year I posted about the tradition we have in our family to do Cool Summer Days, a summer activity calendar. The response I received to that post was HUGE. There’s been several links to it again this year. Today I’m going to show you how to sew your own calendar for your family. You […]

Filed Under: Sewing Tagged With: Summertime, Tutorials

Mexican Grilled Corn

May 23, 2009 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 5 Comments

My dad first made this for us several years ago while he was visiting, I think when Cookie was born. It is a recipe we look forward to making every summer. It is SO GOOD!!! Make sure to have plenty of ripe, sweet corn on hand to grill as everyone will come looking for seconds. […]

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: Summertime

Brown-Eyed Susans Cookies

May 16, 2009 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 1 Comment

We made these cookies a couple of weeks ago at our Kentucky Derby party. It was easy and fun for the girls to shape the cookies themselves. These would make a nice treat for someone who is feeling blue! Brown-Eyed Susans 1 batch sugar cookie dough. We use this recipe.3 TBSP. cocoa powder (dutch process)1/4 […]

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Navajo Fry Bread

May 2, 2009 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 9 Comments

Pueblo Fry Bread, Indian Fry Bread….this goes by many names but we call it Navajo Fry Bread because we got the recipe from our good friends the Blackwaters. He is Navajo (grew up living in a hogan and everything!). She’s half Paiute, half Shoshone. We loved eating at their house because of the wonderful fry […]

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: bread, dinner

Teaching Kids to Cook Part II

April 30, 2009 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 11 Comments

This is the second in a series of posts about cooking with children. Read the first post here. Meal Planning We all want our families to eat healthy. This can be hard when we have picky eaters that only like noodles, bread, and shredded wheat cereal. Not very well rounded, right? Teaching my children to […]

Filed Under: Homeschool Encouragement, Recipes Tagged With: Cooking, Cranial Hiccups, Penny-Pinching Pointers, Personal Goals

BBQ Chicken Pizza

April 25, 2009 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 4 Comments

One of the easiest,cheapest things to make is pizza. My girls LOVE to cook pizza. Every once in a while I can talk one of them in to trying a new pizza recipe to break us out of the rut of cheese, pepperoni, or Hawaiian. This BBQ Chicken Pizza was an instant hit. It fast […]

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Savory Sausage Rice

April 18, 2009 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 3 Comments

This is definitely one of our favorite main dishes. To make it a little bit healthier definitely leave out the butter and try using brown rice. Savory Sausage Rice 2 lbs. bulk pork sausage (Jimmy Dean is the best)2 1/2 cups chopped celery1 cup finely chopped green pepper3/4 cup chopped onion2 (2 1/8 oz.) pkgs. […]

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: rice, sausage

Easter Mosaic With Fudge

April 14, 2009 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 15 Comments

Here’s Fudge with all her expressive faces. She was giggling so hard on part of these because the eggs were cold! © 2007-2013 Chocolate on my Cranium, LLC all rights reserved

Filed Under: Easter Tagged With: Easter, Photography

I ♥ Faces: Week 14 Amateurs/ Spring or Easter

April 14, 2009 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 8 Comments

This picture comes from one of the funnest little photo shoots I’ve done in a while. Fudge is such a character. She can make some of the most expressive faces! It was hard to narrow down my choices to just one. You can see the rest in a mosaic here on this post. This week […]

Filed Under: Easter Tagged With: Easter, I♥Faces, Photography

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Hello, I'm Montserrat. I'm a farmer's wife, mother of eleven, homeschooler, chocoholic, music lover, and like to play a good game of Scrabble. You can read more about me here. . .

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