Succulent Garden

I think I saw this idea on Pinterest awhile ago - We took some of the small pottery items the girls made in school and made a cute little su...

Date Night

  Jim and I had a lovely date night starting with dinner at Maynard’s in Excelsior and ending with a show at Music Box Theatre in Minneapo...

Family Service Day

Today, we did a food packing session at Feed My Starving Children. Our table worked really fast and packed over 35 boxes in our 2 hour sessi...

Flying Foot Forum and Minneapolis Field Trip

Today we went downtown for a dance performance at The Cowles Theater plus some bonus stops. The dance performance was a student matinee (onl...

Cardboard Ice Cream Truck

Today's boxes from Amazon were going to become a rocket ship but ended up an ice cream truck instead. These were unusually large boxes a...

Katie BDay Dinner

We celebrated Katie’s 17th birthday with dinner out at Axel’s with me, Jim, Juliana, Alex and Josh. It was a great meal topped off with a hu...

Sunday Art–God’s Eyes

I have missed doing little crafty projects with the girls; they haven't seemed to find a home on our homeschool schedule but with a litt...

Another Sunset

Just another sunset that Katie shot with my phone as we were out and about doing something trivial, probably coming home from Target.

Winter

The dog continues to try hiding from winter. I think the photo says it best for all of us.

MN Center for Book Arts Class

We were very fortunate to be able to take a class about paper making and book making at the MN Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis this week...

Juliana at Aveda

While Juliana was going to school at Aveda, I got to be her model a bunch of times and Lauren also went once for waxing. I was surprised at ...

Valentine Fun

Without being in public school this year, the girls felt like they might be missing out a bit on having a Valentine party. It was Gloria'...

University of MN Astronomy Lecture

I have had a note about the U of MN public astronomy viewing nights in my activity file for a while now but it hadn’t worked out to go previ...

Natalie Pollution Presentation

Natalie wanted to do a poster and presentation for school so she chose "Pollution" as a topic and did a great job of gathering fac...

Skiing at Buck Hill

Today was the day that Lauren has been waiting all winter for – a chance to go skiing at Buck Hill. Ever since she went with her 8th grade...

Waterpark of America

I found out from one of my homeschool e-mail lists that Waterpark of America was having a homeschool day. We got all-day tickets for less th...

Grateful

I am so grateful to be married to someone who will brave a chilly day on a Sunday afternoon to replace the brakes in my van so that we can s...

Snow Photo Shoot

Experimenting with the Canon camera has been a popular tween/teen hobby lately. Here are the results of a photo shoot that Gloria did with L...