{"id":1390,"date":"2009-12-01T10:32:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T16:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2009-12-01T10:32:17","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T16:32:17","slug":"apple-picks-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/01\/apple-picks-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have lots of friends who have recently made the transition from 1 child to 2 (or more) children.\u00c2\u00a0 Sorta Crunchy&#8217;s advice for <a href=\"http:\/\/sortacrunchy.typepad.com\/sortacrunchy\/2009\/11\/and-another-baby-makes-four.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FTyhx+%28SortaCrunchy2.0%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">moms making the transition to having several children at home<\/a> is great and there is lots of great advice in the comment section too!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m definitely going to be using some of <a href=\"http:\/\/confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/prek-letter-s.html\">these snowman printables<\/a> from Confessions of a Homeschooler with The Littlest Apple sometime soon.\u00c2\u00a0 What a fun resource!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to make homemade vanilla extract for a couple of years now.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.passionatehomemaking.com\/2009\/11\/homemade-vanilla-extract.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PassionateHomemaking+%28Passionate+Homemaking%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">This guide<\/a> from Passionate Homemaking makes it sound so easy!<\/p>\n<p>These <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourhomebasedmom.com\/butter-fudge-fingers\/\">Butter Fudge Fingers<\/a> from Your Homebased Mom sound delicious!\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe a contender for my Christmas Cookie Boxes this year?<\/p>\n<p>I think my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/28\/tall-and-creamy-cheesecake\/\">Tall and Creamy Cheesecake<\/a> from last week is in for some stiff competition&#8230;.in the form of this <a href=\"http:\/\/smittenkitchen.com\/2009\/11\/cappuccino-fudge-cheesecake\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+smittenkitchen+%28smitten+kitchen%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Cappuccino Fudge Cheesecake<\/a> from Smitten Kitchen.\u00c2\u00a0 Looks amazing!<\/p>\n<p>The best way to teach your children kindness is to model that behavior yourself.\u00c2\u00a0 Simple Mom has a great post about <a href=\"http:\/\/simplemom.net\/cultivating-a-life-of-kindness-with-your-kids\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+simplemom+%28Simple+Mom%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">cultivating a life of kindness with your kids<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/01\/apple-picks-6\/\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have lots of friends who have recently made the transition from 1 child to 2 (or more) children.\u00c2\u00a0 Sorta Crunchy&#8217;s advice for moms making the transition to having several children at home is great and there is lots of great advice in the comment section too! I&#8217;m definitely going to be using some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-picks","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}