Pinterest - Great ideas, very little follow through

As I was cruising Pinterest tonight and re-organizing my boards I realized I have yet to actually used any of the ideas I have pinned. So I have decided to pick one or two recipes per week and at least one homeschool activity and one craft and do them. First up:

Corn According to this blog post you can throw corn in the oven at 350* for 25-30 minutes STILL IN THE HUSK and it will cook perfectly. Better yet the husk and silk will peel off easily. The corn in our garden is just now getting ripe. The kids and I spent several hours yesterday shucking corn, cutting it off the cob, and freezing it. I still have corn silk all over the house.

Second recipe: Potatoes I love, love, love potatoes. But I get tired of doing the same thing over and over. We'll see how this recipe turns out.

Craft idea for this week: Soap! Matthew bought several bars of soap so that he could carve them. He ended up with a whole bowl of soap slivers and wanted to melt them together so that he could have another bar of soap. I thought this idea would be fun to do instead.

Homeschool idea for this week: This game is called Flip Ten. You use Uno cards and try to make a match that adds up to 10. I've been wanted to work with Abby to get her to rely more on memory and less on counting with her fingers and this looks like a good place to start.