Our homeschooling and home building story.
We decided to take our mini family vacation to Gold Beach this year. Caleb's aunt let us stay in her summer home there and we had a wonderful time. Her house is right on the beach so every morning Ari was out the door and wandering the beach and meeting the locals. When the tide... Continue Reading →
April sped by and I didn't manage to squeeze in a blog post. My Ukraine students have been such troopers. They're dealing with all the things and yet still manage to smile for zoom class. The teachers have it so rough too. I am thankful for them all and have one month left to try... Continue Reading →
Not meaning sports 🙂 Life gets flipped all kinds of directions. I've added a family to our coop, a 7th grader I'm tutoring on Friday's and have another student in my high school class. On top of that, I've started teaching two English classes to students in Ukraine on Zoom at 6AM (it's 4 PM... Continue Reading →
Life's been busy. It's been a month since my last post! We finished off Kenya and visited Saudi Arabia and are now halfway through India! Saudi Arabia and India have included more discussions about different customs, religions and treatment of women and girls. Ari is certain she wouldn't last a week in those cultures. There... Continue Reading →
Technically it isn't time yet but...everything around here says it is spring. Our fruit trees are in full bloom as are the daffodils. The insects are back to trying to sneak in our screen doors and my nose has a hunch that the pollen is coming soon. We've almost finished our study of Africa. Tomorrow... Continue Reading →
The last week and a half have been busy and fun. We made pretzels and blushing maid for our German feast and then we flew to Kenya to study Africa. We are learning about different people groups around Africa, about the grasslands habitat and animals that inhabit it, and about some famous missionaries to Africa... Continue Reading →
It's been a bit since I wrote last...we were just finishing France and about to have our French feast. It was delicious. A cheese souffle, croissant and chocolate mousse with a strawberry. Yumm! Now we've about finished Germany. We'll have our German feast tomorrow. We've learned about Martin Luther, George Muller and John Wesley. We... Continue Reading →
We're back in the swing of homeschool! We're having a blast learning about France since it's where Ari wants to go for her 10th birthday trip. I might also be staying up too late learning about France 😛 I'll get that figured out. We've also started working on learning some French with Duolingo and Language... Continue Reading →
We had a fun new years with my in-laws and celebrated our last Christmas with them. We played 4 rounds of miniature golf and went rock climbing. We adults also visited IKEA, played 2 games of Wingspan and did our first Escape room since Covid became a thing. The escape room was called Capitol Treasure... Continue Reading →
Before I make my resolutions for this year, I want to look back on last year. Last year I chose fewer goals. That was probably a good thing because even those few goals were shaken when our contractor abandoned in May. I did continue listening to Pine Knoll's Sabbath School class and I did memorize... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 