Game Month

I have joined an online coaching community for homeschool moms through BraveWriter.com.  We are given audio and video lectures and assignme...

Piano Lessons

We seem to be living in a culture that places an undue emphasis on experts. I call this the expert mentality and I first came across the ide...

Legacy Luau

Since I’ve been managing the Legacy Gym Facebook page , I’ve gotten to see what events and meets they are participating in – or better yet, ...

Winter Stuff

This deer has been to the house a a number of times in the last few days. Previously, he was here at night and close to the house. Today, in...

Bundles of Love Volunteer Day

A while ago, I started read a blog and newsletter from Doing Good Together . It contains information and encouragement to volunteer togethe...

Science Museum with Omni Fail

I planned a trip to the Science Museum today with 2 purposes in mind: visit the weather exhibits (related to some science reading we were d...

Marbled Paper and The Cool Science Book

This month, we added a new activity to our afternoon "group time" -  The Greatest Science Stories Never Told: 100 tales of invent...

New Car

Here is the new car we bought today. It's the only one we looked at in person, but Jim spent a few days poring over ads in the internet...

Second Harvest Heartland for MLK Day

Instead of a full day off school for Martin Luther King Jr Day, we had a half day and then went to Second Harvest Food Bank for another foo...

Maple Grove Community Center

Jim was out of town this weekend so we headed up to the Maple Grove Community Center for some big muscle fun. They have a super deal where ...

5 Minute Dance Party

...because it works better than yelling at people when they can't pay attention ...and it's MUCH more fun ...and it actually works...

Sliding and Skating

We have gotten so little snow this winter that the opportunities for sledding have not been that great. Even ice skating has been iffy beca...

Grandma Lu Funeral

My Grandma Lu passed away this past week. She was over 91 years old and loved by many people in her church and family. She left an amazing ...

Physics Force Show

We went to the Physics Force Show at Northrup Auditorium on the University of MN campus today. The show was an hour-long extravaganza of ev...

The Value of Individual Learning

These are some notecards that Jamie wrote while watching Wild Kratts (her favorite show on PBS). She is recording key facts to write a book ...

Winter Break Activities

For winter break, we managed to go on a field trip or activity almost every day in the week after Christmas: • open gym at Legacy • swimm...

Love Coupons

Natalie made this special pack of coupons for me - she did such a great job of picking things she knew I would really appreciate!

Sunrise

Katie likes to take pictures of sunsets, I like to take pictures of sunrises. Here is an especially lovely one -