The Irresistible Draw of Art Projects

Art is definitely a favorite activity around here – especially when free exploration is allowed and encouraged. If it involves decorating, p...

The Wall of Awesome and Character Building

I had a really fantastic plan for transforming the office wall outside Juliana’s room based on something I saw on a blog. It was going to be...

Rainy Days and Mondays

At 9:00 am, this was the view out the back patio door window: puddles of water, soaking rain, below average temperatures. But meanwhile, a...

Baby Chicks and Fellowship

Our small group met today: Jayson & Tarrah, Jim & Julie, Wendy, us and kids. Tarrah ordered fertilized chicken eggs and one of the h...

Weekend Homework

Since this was the first weekend of homeschool, everyone was interested in knowing if working in the garden was “homework” since we chose it...

The Outdoor Classroom

One of the first questions everyone had about homeschool was where they would be sitting or doing their work. Would we all be sitting at the...

Learning to Work Together

This photo shows the result of how we all worked together to bring different views and pieces of the puzzle together to work out a system fo...

The End of the Scarcity Mentality

We had a great trip to the Ridgedale Library today. There was a study room just the right size for us all to have table space and enough com...

First Day of Homeschool

Wow, what a day and what joy to be learning at home together. I can’t believe how much learning could take place just by releasing the kids ...

Interesting Dog Bed

I’ve noticed many times that Roxy will make a “bed” out of anything of ours that she can. It only need be about the size of a sock or Kleene...

Easter Sunday

One of the best, most joyful parts of today was having a mini dance party before church. Natalie and Gloria were scheduled to help in the 2/...

The Batter Bowl

This may look like an ordinary batter bowl but to me it represents the great lengths to which God has been going lately to show me that He ...

Tie Dye Easter Eggs

After many years of trying different Easter Egg coloring methods and kits, I think we’ve finally hit it this year! The Easter Bunny has nev...