Back to the Classics Challenge 2014

One of my goals this year is to participate in the Back to the Classics Challenge 2014.  I am super excited about it, and am ashamed to admit how few classics I have actually read.  I swear sometimes I wonder what I did in all my literature classes!  You can find all the details for the challenge through the link above.

Here are my choices (as of right now) to fulfill the challenge....

1) 19th Century Classic: Emma by Jane Austen
2) 20th Century Classic: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett changed to Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
3) Classic in Translation: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4) Classic By Woman Author: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
5) Classic by an Author Who's New To Me: From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne changed to...O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
6) Wartime Novel: War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

Optional Categories:
1) Classic American Novel: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2) Historical Fiction Novel: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
3) Classic Mystery/Suspense Novel: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
4) Classic Book That's Been Adapted as a Movie: Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
5) Extra Fun Category: Write a Review of the Movie or TV Series adapted from Optional Category #4.

My Iowa

What to blog, that is the question.  Choose a topic they say, well: I sew, but there are tons of great sewing blogs.  I bake, lots of blogs about that too.  Homeschooling?  You guessed it, lots of blogs on that too.  So, I guess that leaves my life in Iowa.  There are blogs on life in Iowa, but not my life so I am going with it.  So here goes...

I love Iowa.  It's beautiful here.  I am not originally from Iowa.  Nope, I'm a transplant; but this place grows more than corn...it grows people too.  I am from Michigan originally, Detroit to be exact.  I am very proud to be a Michigander!  I always will be until the day I die.  However, I love Iowa.

It's beautiful here.  Not in a breathtaking mountain view way, but it is beautiful.  It's rolling fields of green and skies so blue.   In case you are unfamiliar with Iowa, it is NOT flat at all!  We grow corn and soybeans (and pigs), not potatoes.  Most of us live in the city, not on a farm; but I wish I lived on a farm.  Just a small one, nothing too big. 

What to expect from this blog?  A little of everything...some baking, some sewing, some homeschooling, and a whole lot of Iowa.  I hope you'll visit.