Posted in Daily log, freebies, Links, math, science on May 5th, 2013 2 Comments »
We made it through another birthday week here. Jack turned 10, Victoria turned 15, and Alex turned 6. I made a lot of cakes and cupcakes. Here’s a quick round-up of ten fun ways we played and learned during birthday week…. Victoria chose books for birthday presents, and picked out an awesome assortment at Barnes [...]
Posted in Daily log, Field trips & tours, math on Apr 10th, 2013 1 Comment »
My goodness, I’ve been gone a lot lately! We’ve been so busy for being recluses. Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to…. Daryl had his recheck for his hip replacement surgery at the Mayo. All looks great and he has the go-ahead for physical therapy. While we were there, I surprised the kids [...]
Posted in Daily log on Mar 5th, 2013 6 Comments »
I’ve written before about how we don’t have a “typical” homeschool day. That said, I thought it could be interesting to log a day here at home while D is recovering from surgery. Here’s 99 things I did yesterday. I realize this is probably interesting to nobody except me, so you will not hurt my [...]
Posted in Daily log, Goals, pictures on Feb 26th, 2013 2 Comments »
We’re plugging on here. It’s been 3 1/2 weeks now since Daryl’s hip replacement surgery and he’s still on bedrest. He’s recovering well, all things considered. I keep saying that if you have to be stuck inside for six weeks in Minnesota, you might as well do it in February when there’s not much to [...]
Posted in Daily log, Full Disclosure, personal on Jan 28th, 2013 6 Comments »
The “typical day” we decided to go start fires for homeschool Every time I read one of those “a day in our life as homeschoolers” posts, I feel as if I’ve accidentally wandered into another dimension. We have about as much in common with your standard homeschooling blogger family as we do with French royalty, [...]
Posted in Daily log on Jan 17th, 2013 2 Comments »
What a long couple of weeks it has been. Alex had surgery (adenoids and tonsils removed) with a difficult and painful recovery that’s still ongoing, Daryl saw doctors at the Mayo and scheduled surgery to replace his hip, I had a birthday that we celebrated out of town, and a long-time online homeschooling friend (a [...]
Posted in Daily log on Nov 26th, 2012 1 Comment »
I am so busy right now! Right now, a bit of what’s going on is… I am writing a novel for NaNoWriMo. It’s about a crazy family of 7 who homeschools! My current word count is about 32,000 words (I need 50,000 to finish and there are only 5 days left!). Eek! Daryl has [...]
Posted in Daily log on Nov 20th, 2012 1 Comment »
I’m still trying to get into a new rhythm when it comes to keeping up with everything, but I thought I’d pop in and do a quick 10 thing post. No pictures, or I’d never get it done. Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to… Victoria finished Animal Farm from her 9th grade [...]
Posted in Daily log, magical moments, pictures on Sep 4th, 2012 3 Comments »
Super fast, here’s 10 things we’ve been up to… Jack took his CAT online today. All in all, he did fantastic. He could use work on spelling and language mechanics (I think this is knowing what an adverb is). He was especially awesome in Reading Comprehension, Mathematics Concepts & Problems, and Language Usage & Structure. [...]
Posted in Daily log, Field trips & tours on Aug 19th, 2012 3 Comments »
Oh, we’ve been busy again! Egads. We have a few days off now and I’m so happy to be able to putter around the house, read books and play outside with my kiddos. Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to! We took part in Civil War Days… Daryl taught the telegraph to people, [...]
