Posted in plans for the day, Field trips & tours, holidays on Jul 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Daryl is reprising his role as the old time gambler for the local Pioneer Village’s 4th of July celebration. He’s dressing up in his snazzy top hat, tux with tails and purple vest and bringing all his old dice cages, card decks, layouts and Shut the Box to dazzle the tourists.
The girls are […]
Posted in Daily log, geography, PE, social studies, art, math, holidays, writing on May 20th, 2008 No Comments »
A little of what we’ve been up to lately…
Social Studies
Jack, Anna, Victoria and I watched “IMAX: The Eight Greatest Places on Earth” about the Amazon river, Tibet, Greenland and other amazing places. We learned a lot about everything from the rainforest to prayer flags to lemurs.
Anna and I are still reading “Pollyanna” at bedtime, which […]
Posted in magical moments, pictures, holidays on May 18th, 2008 No Comments »
We spent Mother’s Day evening at Plum Creek and had a picnic. Thought I’d share some pictures.
And yes, it’s that Plum Creek. We live near Walnut Grove from the “Little House on the Prairie” fame. The book “On the Banks of Plum Creek” was based here. My kids would actually go to school in […]
Posted in deep thoughts, holidays on May 11th, 2008 No Comments »
The baby kept me up late and woke me early, and now he’s running errands with Daddy while the rest of the house sleeps.
I wasn’t sure what to blog about today. Our plans? I’m not sure yet. Happy Mother’s Day to everybody else? Yeah, but then what?
It finally occurred to me that I want to […]
Posted in Victoria, Daily log, holidays on May 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
We’re halfway through the birthday marathon. Two down!
Victoria’s birthday yesterday was a big success. She had a lot of plans and we were able to pretty much do everything. We went to homeschool swimming, libraries in two towns, her favorite Mexican restaurant and the park, among other things.
She originally wanted to meet friends […]
Posted in Victoria, pictures, holidays on May 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
The many moods of Victoria on her tenth birthday (with Mom giving directions like “Okay, now sweet! Now mysterious! Now like a super spy!”…..
Posted in Jack, Victoria, holidays on Apr 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Jack had a really good birthday today. He got some neat gifts, saw some neat people and did some neat things! There was lunch with Grandma and Grandpa, playing in the park with friends, a cake made to his specs (a green cake with his name and a little version of him on it!) and […]
Posted in Jack, pictures, holidays on Apr 30th, 2008 3 Comments »
I decorated the downstairs for the week last night. With all of the birthdays in a row, I’ll just leave it decorated until Sunday. Yellow crepe paper streamers are hung throughout the kitchen, dining room and living room with lots of balloons and a Happy Birthday banner.
Jack came downstairs this morning and his […]
Posted in personal, holidays on Apr 29th, 2008 2 Comments »
We’re about to get really busy!
Tomorrow, Jack turns 5. We’re having a little celebration with cake.
The next day, Victoria turns 10. We’re having a larger celebration with cake.
The next day, we’re having a giant party at a nature center for all of our birthday kids with friends.
The next day, Alex turns 1! The same day, […]
Posted in PE, pictures, nature, Daily log, holidays on Apr 22nd, 2008 2 Comments »
We started today cleaning up the wetland we adopted. Daryl took the kids out there for about an hour before they came back for more garbage bags and a quick snack. I joined them at that point and we cleaned for the next 2 hours. All total, we covered about 3/4 of […]
I'm a frazzled AP mom to 4 fabulous kids in rural Minnesota. Homeschooling here tends to be child-led and focused on fun. We do lots of crafts, reading and exploring. I'm madly in love with my brilliant, goofy lug of a husband and I don't get nearly enough sleep.