Our homeschooling and home building story.
It's been a busy few weeks. Lots of unpacking and organizing and I substitute taught for a week with 2 of the best teachers aides ever. We were really excited about living right next to an old overgrown olive orchard. The kids had 2 wonderful weeks of building forts and exploring...and we enjoyed having deer... Continue Reading →
Busy as always! Spent Labor Day moving with lots of amazing help from extended family. So we've been living in a world of boxes. Slowly getting things unpacked and finding where they go and having minimum homeschool days. It is really nice to be so close to our build site and so close to my... Continue Reading →
We've been enjoying our school time, learning about math and countries and chickens and cultures. Our focus these last two weeks was continents and then focusing on the United States. Matching numbersMaking the cakeOur world cakeWatching our chicksWearing our homemade bean jewelry This last weekend we went with Caleb's students to Albion and had a... Continue Reading →
So again with the waiting to get our house build back on track...we learned to put up a fence! We were renting a security fence and that seemed kind of ridiculous since we were going to want a legit fence anyway...we got a couple estimates and they said they would put in a black chain... Continue Reading →
We started back to homeschool this week! We didn't start until the middle of the week because...while we had organized and gone through stuff in the rest of our apartment...we'd put off organizing the homeschool room. So we started the week by organizing it and briefly had everything organized...and then got a bunch of books... Continue Reading →
I am the crazy lady with baby chicks in her apartment. We ordered 6 of several varieties...we got 7 because one variety we had ordered wasn't available and they substituted 2 of a similar variety. We lost one chick after 4 days of trying very hard to rehab her, she had straddle leg from the... Continue Reading →
So the amount of time it's taking to get the letter written so we can continue with the house is...rather frustrating. And we just wanted to get something done so we could see progress. At first we settled on fencing...got a couple bids for a fence and it was $27k 😛 I went scouting for... Continue Reading →
Family camp was a much needed vacation. Both my parents and Caleb's parents joined us so we could all take turns enjoying the kiddos and enjoying some time ourselves. Cas loved the train and rode it almost every day and twice on the day that we got tickets to the night train. Ari loved pushing... Continue Reading →
I know, it's been a while since I've posted anything. I don't know how much I'll post in July either as I'm off my routine but I'll try to get you all the highlights and the curriculum choices for next year. We've been dealing with the frustration of waiting waiting waiting to get our construction... Continue Reading →
This is the post where I let you know what did and didn't work for us of our curriculum choices this year. You can look back at THIS POST to see what we chose to use this school year. This school year was a wild ride with COVID, me teaching at a brick and mortar... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 