Serendipity

I am cleaning off my desktop -- not the horizontal desktop I have to dust but the vertical one where I store my digital photos until I blog about them -- I came across these pictures from last summer. OK, it's been a reaaallly long time since I cleaned off the desktop!!

My friend and fellow blogger Barb loaned this book to me and my granddaughters were delighted with it. The Boy Who Saved Cleveland, written by James Cross Giblin, is the story of Seth Doan a 10 yr old who rescues the 3 cabin settlement where he lives. This was the girls' first exposure to harsh life on the frontier and it really captured their imagination, especially because it is about our hometown. In the book, Seth saves his family and neighbors by lugging bags of corn to the mill to be ground and then returning 4 miles with the cornmeal. They lived mainly on cornbread at that time so Seth helped keep them alive by having food available.




Ding, ding ,ding! A light goes off in my head because I had just seen a post on The Pioneer Woman Cooks about cornbread in a skillet. Lily and Marina were enthusiastic about cooking cornbread like they did in the book. I downloaded the recipe and voila!

This happens so often in homeschooling that you start on one thing and another dovetails nicely. There is a word for that -- serendipity.