School For Us

Last night, we decided to watch the 4th of July fireworks from our pool. We turned the light on in the pool and hopped in for some fun. What...

For this week's Unplug Your Kids project, the focus was "tiny." I looked at the blog of This Girl Loves To Talk and followed ...

We caught a tadpole near the beginning of June. We released him as a teeny tiny toad yesterday. Here are some photos. (By the way, I think h...

Last night, we got back from trip #1 (of three!) for the summer. I drove Alex to Oklahoma where she could stay with grandparents and attend ...

Heather at Blog, She Wrote mentioned in a post that her children use God's World News as a news magazine. This year, Alex had been usi...

While Alex has been lying around sick today, I've went in the backyard for 2 nature photowalks. I usually crop the photos, but then you ...

While I was practicing the piano yesterday, Alex grabbed a "Which Way USA?" book off the shelf and started working. Of course, I h...

This week's Unplug Your Kids challenge was "SLIPPERY." I had trouble thinking of anything except for slippery soap. I remembe...

Several years ago, we planted a lot of wildflower seeds but not much grew. (It could have been that our yard guys were pulling everything up...

Last week, we read Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors by Jane O'Connor (part of the Smart About Art series we really enjoy). Then, we...