Free Christmas Coloring Sheets

In lieu of the season, here are some free Christmas coloring sheets. Printables are a great way to help your kiddos get into the spirit of Christmas, as if they needed help.  Need some fun manger scenes for your Sunday school class or home? We’ve incuded those as well. Besides, that’s what Christmas is all about! Whether you need something

Sweet Corn Casserole Recipe

If you need a tasty Thanksgiving side dish, here is an easy and delicious sweet corn casserole recipe for you.  It’s really more like corn casserole and corn cake got married and had a baby.  I grew up on old fashioned southern style cornbread.  If you did too, then that means you know it was not sweet.  However, I have

Free Thanksgiving Coloring Sheets

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Back to Homemade, here are some free Thanksgiving coloring sheets to help you celebrate the holiday season. Whether you need a little something extra to keep little hands busy while you cook, or you just enjoy coloring, these print outs can come in handy. You could even have a coloring contest.  Simply scroll

Goodbye to Summer

Well, I suppose it’s time to say goodbye to summer and hello to fall.  I can’t hide my feelings about it, I don’t like it.  However, I do try to appreciate all the nice things about the season, I just can’t find that many.  Any day that slightly resembles summer is a great fall day to me. Okay all you

What Curriculum do I Use?

During all my years of homeschooling, the question I think I’ve been asked the most is what curriculum do I use?  I’ve been asked a lot of questions.  I remember one lady asking me if my kids were allowed to wear pajamas all day, or if I made them get dressed each morning.  She was getting ready to start homeschooling

How to Make Salt Dough

Here is a simple recipe on how to make salt dough. We had a of couple rainy days here recently and I needed a little something extra for my kiddos to do. So I pulled out these 3 simple ingredients to make some homemade salt dough. You can also let it dry and use it like clay.  It won’t be

I Love Summer!

I love summer! Summer has always been my favorite season. I don’t even really mind the heat. However, I definitely don’t like the bugs.  Around here, mosquitoes can really eat a person. Summer has a way of making me feel a bit like a kid again. Catching lightning bugs (fireflies), long days swimming, fishing, picking blackberries and playing my share

Slow Cooker Pot Roast

Here is an easy and delicious slow cooker pot roast recipe. Pot Roast is really a comfort food classic. It’s a definite favorite in our house. It’s also hearty and filling. Besides a little prep work of peeling and cutting, it’s a pretty simple dish. Using pre-mixed quality seasonings make this dish even easier to pull together.  We often use

Our Rescue Squirrel, “Tico”

How we Met I was at my parent’s house in the woods soon after my dad died when I first met our rescue squirrel,”Tico.”  I was sitting on the porch stairs, and I noticed something in the driveway under one of the vehicles.  He had almost no fur, and kind of resembled a baby mouse.  He was a bit smaller

The Nest is Empty

Well, just like that, the nest is empty.  The little birdies flew their nest, well sort of.  A couple of weeks after the start of spring I had realized a bird was building a nest in my small bathroom window between the screen and the glass pane.  There had been a small hole that I’d been meaning to patch up