Escape from Trick or Treat

We are happily back to our “old” way of not observing Halloween by trick or treating. We went swimming at Williston on Oct 31 in the afterno...

Homebody Days

As the weather cools off, we are doing a little less running around outside and hunkering down with a few more homey activities. Here are a ...

Skyzone

I am regularly cleaning through all the promotional emails I get for things I signed up for …and things I didn’t. I think I have it down to...

Downtown Field Trip

Lauren and Gloria have been wanting to go to a larger library than our own for a few days so we headed to downtown Minneapolis to visit the ...

Egg Rolls

Gloria has been asking to make  homemade egg rolls, so we managed to get that on the menu today. I use a dump and stir, no measure recipe w...

Gymnastics Open House

We belong to a few email lists for homeschoolers that are used to share field trip ideas, resources, events and other useful things. Yesterd...

Fall Bike Ride

We had originally planned to go to Fort Snelling today but we have a small cash flow problem so that got postponed. I really wanted to do so...

The Little Supper

We are listening to How to Train Your Dragon on audio for our group reading time. We are all finding this book very enjoyable. We mostly lis...

Flexibility

One of the things I really wanted to be able to do with the kids out of public school was be more involved in other people’s lives – to have...

End of Swimming 2014

I think today will be the official last swim of the season. We had the beach completely to ourselves. The water was quite low, with the cro...

Coon Rapids Regional Park Dam

Since the weather was utterly spectacular today, we headed up to the Coon Rapids Dam, aka Shell Mania (just our own name for it). There was ...

Reflections on Back to School

We are at the end of our first “back to school” week. Although we do learning projects and activities in the summer, this is the time of the...

Backyard Photo Shoot

Lauren took these photos of her sisters today. There were some additional items for pretend commercial involving makeup, games and shampoo t...

The Best Part of Summer

…chilling out at the beach on a warm evening. What a great life.

Bike Ride

It was a great day to ride bikes so we headed up to the high school. After playing around on the turf, we traveled along what we call the “n...

New Desk

I got a new desk and chair today that I believe God personally provided for me. I got the inspiration to check at a garage sale for a desk t...

Moon Dough

Just for a little change of pace, we mixed up some homemade “moon dough” today. (I saw it on Pinterest) We have seen a bunch of store displa...