After the year we've just had and how busy and tired I am now...my goals for this year are fewer. After several years of reading through the Bible in a year, this year I want to start through the Bible again but doing it with Graham Maxwell's Picture of God in All 66 audio lessons.... Continue Reading →
Goals for 2020 Revisited
Lets take a look at the goals I made for this last year...back before I knew what was coming and see how I did. Then I can move ahead and make new goals...must be honest...I'm making fewer goals for the year ahead. I'll make comments on each goal in bold. It's not only a new... Continue Reading →
House updates
First floor walls are pretty much complete as is the ceiling blocking so that the second floor can be started on next week!
Covid Christmas and New Years
Below are some pictures from our 2 weeks of family time and vacation. We wore lots of masks and had a couple outdoor gatherings and one visit to my parents that included quarantines and testing on both sides of the visit. We played games, read books and got outside in the snow. And most importantly,... Continue Reading →
We have first floor walls!
Most of the first floor is up! We have the library and closet and downstairs bathroom and kitchen and garage. The only first floor walls left to add are the exterior living room walls and the wall dividing the garage from the kitchen. When we first showed the kids pictures of the first walls up... Continue Reading →
Christmas school week 2
More fun and Christmas school this week. We planned acts of kindness for each day of the week, we made snowflakes, we learned about Joy and discussed how it's different from happiness. Our books of the week were The Night of Las Posadas and we're still working through A Tree for Peter. We recorded several... Continue Reading →
Things are happening!
Our Gigacrete supplies were delivered. Windows were delivered. This last week the track was laid, see pics...I don’t understand all of it but this is the track for the walls. Hopefully they will go up this week!
Christmas school week 1
One of my favorite times in the school year...the three weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas when we have Christmas school! We are doing our Star from Afar daily hunt again this year and we have 3 advent calendars: a Christmas ornament one made for the kids by their Grandma, a Science kit one that has... Continue Reading →
2nd Covid Thanksgiving
After we came home from my parents, we got to relax at home and enjoy Thanksgiving vacation. We got our apartment cleaned up and organized, spent hours at the park, and did some simple Thanksgiving activities. We read some Thanksgiving books, made a few crafts and watched the Mayflower Voyagers starring the Peanuts crew. For... Continue Reading →
First Covid Thanksgiving
This week was another adventure. We got our first colds of the season, and yes, I'm quite sure they were colds and not covid-19. For one, there were no fevers and for another there was sneezing and from everything I can find, sneezing is not a symptom of covid. However, we did follow protocol and... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 