This weekend, I had 3 extra kids at the house.  I am a huge fan of having friends over – my children are so much easier when they have friends around!!  But the moment always comes….”Moooooom!  We’re bored!”
I was ready for them this time. Impress your kids had a great slime recipe that I [...]

We have had a cocoon wrapped up in the leaves of the tree in our front yard for a few weeks now.  I have noticed it, pointed it out to the family and watched it.  I was so hopeful that we would get to see what was going to come out of it.
So when I [...]

I am always looking for something new and different to change things up for my crew.  So when I happened upon this website, I was pretty excited!  We love good books.  We love to read.  But we also love to gather around the coffee table with our crayons and markers and listen to a good [...]

Awanas starts up again next week and we are ready! I love how much my children enjoy and learn from their time at the Awanas club meetings each week, and using it for Bible time causes us to set aside a regular “learning verses” time. Butterfly aged out of our Awanas last [...]

It has arrived – school year, 2010-11.
And the day that my little Ladybug starts kindergarten.
Any my Lion reaches 3rd grade.
And my Butterfly {gulp} starts middle school.
Have I mentioned recently how very thankful I am to be a homeschooling family?  Today would be such a rough one otherwise.  Instead, I get to be here, leading, guiding, [...]

Is it really that time of year again?  It feels as though the summer has flown by and here I am scurrying around, trying to get everything set up for school to start again. But we are ready. The summer has held lots of unscheduled time. Lots of bouncing on the trampoline, [...]

This week is School Room Week at the Not Back to School Blog Hop from Heart of the Matter.  How fun to have this to join in!!
Our project this summer has been to redo our school room.  After 2 years of homeschooling in this house, we now start in our 3rd space.  I am so [...]

In the spring of 1776, the Continental Congress had a hard decision to make.  The colonies had been under British rule and the battles were raging.  The Patriots were prepared to seperate from British authority, to declare their independence.  The Loyalist said no.  They saw the benefits to staying under British rule.  The Patriots saw [...]

Several months ago the opportunity arose for Butterfly to sign up to go on a mission trip with her Sunday School class in church. It was going to be a week long trip where she would be able to do yard work, stock food pantry shelves, play with underprivileged kids, visit with the elderly in [...]

As long as I am posting some fun webcam opportunities, here is one more.

Africam is a website that links to live streaming wildlife cameras on game reserves in Africa.  We have enjoyed watching elephants, leopards, hippos, baboons, zebras and even lions.  My family gets so excited when we spot an animal.  As big zoo visitors, [...]