My son and I were sitting on a bench the other day, waiting for his sisters to come outside the building from their Girl Scout meeting.  He started looking for something to pass the time and ended up picking up nuts from the ground near a group of trees.  I was excited to see they [...]

I am a homebody.  It is easier to be at home.  We get more done, school and otherwise, if we limit our time out of the house. It helps that we only have one car.   We do enjoy outside activities, but stick to ones right here in our small community, with occasional family and friend field trips.  [...]

Do your kids have problems with repetition? Tim cannot stand to repeat a lesson, or even an idea. We studied about seasons at the beginning of the month. This last quarter I’m reviewing everything he learned through the year, and this week for science it’s seasons. I had him watch a video on seasons, and [...]

This is science week for us. I chose this week mainly because fall has finally arrived and Natalie has been asking many questions about the leaves falling, the animals, the plants that die and the ones that live during this time of year. I remembered a while back that there is a section in the [...]

Well we have been busy and thing are still rocking and rolling with normal “stuff”……   We were gone all day Saturday and although it was not freezing, it was chilly.  The boys had a great morning with Kati’s kids at the park and then we flew almost 2 hours away to a Master’s Institute program [...]