Posted in Daily log, Field trips & tours on May 19th, 2013 2 Comments »
What a terrible blogger I’ve become! I swear, there’s something about having five kids that is somehow ten times as busy-making as having four kids. I love it, but my does it interfere with my productivity! We’ve been busy bees around here… The boys and I went to the Science and Nature Conference. The [...]
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, 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, [...]
Posted in Daily log, Field trips & tours on Mar 1st, 2012 No Comments »
We had a fun family adventure last week! Daryl, Jack and Anna taught hundreds of school kids about old time games and music. The program was for a school district about an hour away (a homeschool friend on their library board recommended us), and they paid for us to spend two nights at a local [...]
Posted in Field trips & tours, personal, pictures on Sep 21st, 2011 5 Comments »
I just thought I’d share a few pictures that Victoria took of our time down at the Grotto of the Redemption and our renewal of our vows. I think I mentioned that we get married in a new way each year around our anniversary, and our trip to the Grotto was for this year’s wedding. [...]
Posted in Field trips & tours, magical moments, pictures on Sep 16th, 2011 4 Comments »
We just got back from our second mini-vacation in Iowa (who knew there was so much to see in Iowa???). This one really was one to remember. We went down to see the Grotto of the Redemption and renew our wedding vows there. We get married again in a new way every year (this was [...]
Posted in Field trips & tours, pictures on Sep 9th, 2011 3 Comments »
We took a little mini-trip to SE Minnesota and NE Iowa last week and had the nicest time! Some highlights… We went to Mystery Cave, a cave run by Minnesota State Parks… And Niagara Cave, a privately run cave. Only Victoria wanted to go to this one and I went with her. Unfortunately, Niagara Cave [...]
Posted in Daily log, Field trips & tours on Aug 11th, 2011 1 Comment »
We’re in Nebraska at Tiffany’s again, and have been joined by lots of fun homeschooling friends. We even got to meet up with some new ones, via the Unschool Bus, who were parked here with us for a few days. Some of the highlights so far… Going to the fair Hitting the candy store far [...]
Posted in Daily log, Field trips & tours, magical moments, nature, pictures, science, video on Apr 18th, 2011 2 Comments »
We took a trip to a nearby state park last week and it was so nice! We had snow and dreary weather forecast for the foreseeable future, so we figured we should take advantage of the last nice day and really make the most of it. The kids explored the woods, climbed trees, skipped [...]
Posted in Daily log, Field trips & tours on Mar 12th, 2011 3 Comments »
Yesterday, I was planning on catching up on writing, cleaning, laundry, homeschooling, crafts, cooking and more. But Daryl pointed out that it was going to be one of the nicest days we’ve had since October or so. And suggested a road trip. What’s the sense in having memberships to neat things like zoos and butterfly [...]
