Christmas Day

This was our first Christmas morning without Juliana here, but she did come later in the day to open presents, and course, eat cinnamon rol...

Christmas Eve

We had a wonderful, slightly more low-key than usual Christmas Eve this year. Because of my fatigue, I was not on the worship team and the ...

Christmas Baking

These are the lovely Christmas treats that got created this year, with almost no help from adults. I was not feeling well with fibromyalgia...

Bonkers and Breakfast

I thought this was too funny to forget. This morning, Natalie and Jamie wanted to play bonkers during breakfast. This game is SO OLD - my b...

Cabin Fever

After getting a little Christmas shopping done, we went to the indoor play area at Eden Prairie Community Center. It is half-price af...

Library Tours

One of homeschool "hobbies" is visiting different libraries. We were out and about and needed to absorb some time today, so we ...

Sunset Sun Dog

Whenever I am driving Katie somewhere, she will always notice the sky if it is interesting. Today, not far from home, we saw a cool s...

Food Bank Volunteers

As part of greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies night of service, Lauren and some of her sisters and I got to volunteer at Second Harvest H...

Poetry Tea Time

One of our favorite school activities this year has been Poetry Tea Time. We found this idea from Julie Bogart at BraverWriter.com On...

Tumbletrack into Foam Pit

We got a chance to go down to IGM for another (free) open house/open gym this afternoon for 2 hours. It was less crowded than last time ...

The Box is the Gift

My printer died this week so I ordered a new one from Amazon. It came in a gigantic box that I knew would be the perfect plaything for the ...

MN Children's Museum

For a Friday Field Trip, I took Lauren, Gloria, Natalie and Jamie to the MN Children's Museum in St. Paul. They all had fond me...

Skating at Centennial Lakes

Ice skating has been a major occupation around here lately. Today we went over to skate at Centennial lakes. Everyone remembered being he...

Christmas Decorating

Today we got out the favorite Christmas decorations: the victorian village that Grandma Kate got for us quite a few years ago, and the ma...

GTCYS Christmas Concert

Lauren's orchestra played for a Christmas concert at a retirement community in Stillwater this morning. They presented their two festiv...

Early Season Skating

We had some unusually cold weather this month so the outdoor ice skating was available earlier than usual. Yesterday, we were at Thorpe for...