Our homeschooling and home building story.
For one of my kids read aloud challenge prizes they chose to sleep in a fort. The weather was forecast to be 70 degrees with a low of 50 degrees. So we opted for a tent in the yard. The kids were excited to get to sleep in a tent and I was happy about getting some more... Continue Reading →
Both Ari and Cas chose to participate in the pinewood derby again this year. Ari decided to make her car into a penguin and Cas chose to make his into a basket of strawberries. They both worked really hard on their cars. They had help using the big saws for their initial shape and they had some... Continue Reading →
As we've been working our way through the Old Testament in our curriculum. We made it to the section that describes the Tabernacle and we pulled out the Tabernacle kit that my mom got for Ari for her birthday last year and we started putting it together. We still need to paint our figurines but it's been... Continue Reading →
My kids chose to go to the SMUD MoSaC as one of their prizes for their read aloud challenge. It was a lot of fun and we didn't even explore the entire museum! It's one of those super hands on science museums. We spent a lot of time exploring the nature area, and the science area, we built... Continue Reading →
The read Aloud Challenge is a fun challenge I started doing several years ago when Ari had first started reading to make reading in the new year more fun. The kids read aloud to each other for 10 minutes a day. Each day they do that they get to mark off on a chart with 25 marks. Every... Continue Reading →
This was our first New Years in several years being at our own house. For New Years Eve, we let Ari and Cas stay up until midnight...ET. So only 9pm our time. This was just about perfect. They still got to stay up late and have some extra family time, but it wasn't so late that they were... Continue Reading →
I know it's already February and I'm just now posting my resolutions for this year. We've been outside trying to get in our hours before the atmospheric rivers hit! Picture above is of Ari on one of our beautiful days enjoying a park. Blogging happens when there is a spare moment right now and those are farther... Continue Reading →
Over Christmas we went with some friends to play mini golf in Old Sac. They have a fun mini golf course that is inside and California trail themed. We were one big group of 4 kids and 4 adults but kind of ended up split into 3 mini groups. The three younger kids, Ari and the moms... Continue Reading →
Some of our friends contacted us during Christmas break and asked if we wanted to go to the Railroad Museum and Mini golfing with them. After a few scheduling snafus we got it to work and had a great time. We hadn't been to the Railroad Museum in a few years and apparently had never gone on... Continue Reading →
I've been wanting to have my kids learn how to ski. Before Covid we had started taking the kids to a very kid-friendly location and done a little bit to get them used to what skis felt like and such but we hadn't gone back since 2019. My second sister has started learning how to teach other-abled... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 