Minnie Mable Lindsay Crook

April 10, 2011 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 6 Comments

Minnie Mable Lindsay and Frederick Crook Mother Minnie was my husband’s great-grandmother. She was of Scottish descent, fiesty when she wanted to be, and quite the cook. For this week’s Sunday Society post I am sharing snippets of Mother Minnie’s life as remembered by her posterity as well as some taken directly from her own […]

Cracker Barrel Hashbrown Casserole

April 9, 2011 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 6 Comments

When I lived in Georgia my favorite restaurant to eat at was the Cracker Barrel. I loved looking at all the old-fashioned toys, playing checkers, or doing the peg I.Q. game while waiting for our food to arrive. Mmmmmm….it was good ol’ down home cooking! One of my favorite stand by’s was the hash brown […]

Simple Pleasures: Plums

April 7, 2011 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 5 Comments

Wordfull Wednesday: Of daylilies and irises that come full of surpririses

April 6, 2011 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 6 Comments

(Yes, I intentionally misspelled surprises in my post title. It’ll be more clear by the end of the post) (image credit) The arrival of spring is a much anticipated event at our house. It doesn’t matter what the calendar says. When the first flowers begin to grow and then bloom we know spring has finally […]

Home Making Post Quandary

April 5, 2011 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 15 Comments

How to teach our children – Gardening? Cleaning? Cooking? Hospitality? Sewing? As you can see I am in a bit of a quandary trying to decide what to center my home making posts on. I have ideas to share about each but you know how it can be sometimes with too many choices. It’s too […]

Fun on the farm in spring

April 4, 2011 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 8 Comments

Ah, spring! The weather is cold and snowy one day and gloriously sunny and warm the next, only to have it turn windy and cool again. This week we took advantage of all types of weather. On Tuesday the kids talked Mr. Ferrero Rocher into giving them a ride on the grade-all. It goes up […]

The Law of True Marriage

April 2, 2011 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 6 Comments

“Wherever,” says Gail Hamilton, “man pays reverence to woman – wherever any man feels the influence of woman purifying, chastening, abashing, strengthening him against temptation, shielding him from evil, ministering to his self respect, medicining his weariness, peopling his solitude, winning him from sordid prizes, enlivening his monotonous days with mirth or fancy or wit, […]

Simple Pleasures: First Flowers of Spring

March 31, 2011 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 7 Comments

Dressed in regal purple and snowy white these crocuses are the first of the flowers to bloom. I just love their golden centers! What brings you simple pleasure? © 2007-2011 Chocolate on my Cranium, LLC all rights reserved © 2007-2013 Chocolate on my Cranium, LLC all rights reserved

General Conference Wall for Teens

March 30, 2011 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 6 Comments

Two years ago I posted how we have a General Conference Wall to remind us of what we heard during General Conference. It has been a great, and very visible, way to review what we learned in the weeks following conference. Now that I have several teenagers I made another set of General Conference Wall […]

Wordfull Wednesday Topic for April 06

March 30, 2011 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} Leave a Comment

Thank you so much for all of your wonderful posts this month! If you haven’t had a chance to read some of the posts about our women ancestors or myths about women please follow those links to read them. There were a lot of great insights shared. And now the randomly chosen participant from March […]

Favorite Household Chores

March 29, 2011 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 3 Comments

It was so much fun to read what people’s favorite chores are to do! There was basically a tie for Cooking/Meal Prep, Laundry, and Cleaning Floors (sweep/mop/vaccum). I have to say my favorite chore to do is laundry, especially when I can hang the clothes on the line to dry. And with the size of […]

Making Birds’ Nests

March 27, 2011 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 11 Comments

Friday we had a bit of fun making both edible and non-edible birds’ nests. The kids really got into it and let their little personalities shine through on their creations. String/Yarn Birds’ Nests Materials Needed:Liquid StarchVarious Yarn and String Bits(fabric strips would work well too)Bowls or jarsPlastic wrapOven Bake Clay (sculpey) Step 1: Cover the […]

Women and the Spirit of Prophecy

March 26, 2011 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 6 Comments

I’ve slowly been reading through Women of Mormondom. A great book written back in 1877 containing vignettes about early women of the Restoration. I was drawn to a description given of these early sisters in the gospel. “Let us view them purely as prophetic women,who undertook to found their half of a new Christian empire.” […]

Wordfull Wednesday: Myths About Women

March 22, 2011 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 15 Comments

The assignment this week: MYTHS ABOUT WOMEN Be Superwoman – Do it ALL Women Cannot be Scriptorians Be SOMEONE – Work in a Career To be Beautiful you must be – skinny, pretty, fashionable Being a Homemaker is drudgery Women are not equal to men Children […]

The Humble Apron {GIVEAWAY}

March 22, 2011 by Montserrat {Cranial Hiccups} 156 Comments

Aprons. The word conjures up images of mother or grandma baking in the kitchen, or doing housework, or gathering eggs, wood, or flowers. It brings to mind days of yore when aprons protected the few dresses one owned. An apron is a shield to protect from food and grease, dirt and grime. It is also […]