Our homeschooling and home building story.
Besides the big corn maze in Dixon, we like to go to Country Pumpkins to get our pumpkins. It's a lot cheaper and closer than Dixon and it has 2 corn mazes. A small kids one, and a larger one. The kids one is very simple and the kids can run through it on their... Continue Reading →
Ari is a member of our local Pathfinder club this year. The Pathfinder Camporee was held at Leoni Meadows and we had a great time! Because it's rebuilding after the Caldor fire we were in sort of primitive conditions. Normal camping for me but primitive for a camporee. Over 600 Pathfinders attended...but there were only... Continue Reading →
We had a day where Ari had a fever and mostly wanted to nap throughout the day. To let her nap, I made sure she had her Gabb watch and then took Cas out for 2 outings and checked in with Ari in between. The first outing was a trip to the park. We played... Continue Reading →
After Rosh Hashanah comes the Jewish holiday Sukkot or the feast of tabernacles. This holiday comes from the old testament when God told the Israelites to come to the temple once a year and dwell in booths for a week to remember the 40 years they lived in tents wandering in the wilderness. It is... Continue Reading →
Every year, we like to go to Cool Patch Pumpkins as a family if we can make it. It has the Guinness world record for the largest corn maze and it's nice to wander in a corn maze for a couple of hours. The corn maze there is definitely a maze and not just a... Continue Reading →
I am the leader of our local Adventurer club and Cas is a member. Ari graduated last year so she helps some but she is now a Pathfinder. Every fall, our area has a bike derby for all the Adventurer clubs and Cas wanted to go. Several kids from our club came and got to... Continue Reading →
For my in-laws 50th anniversary, and their 70th birthdays, and Caleb and my 15th anniversary, we did a weekend trip to Tahoe. We stayed in a nice hotel in South Lake Tahoe and played Marco Polo in the pool, soaked in the hot tub, hiked some trails (complete with scavenger hunts), played on some playgrounds,... Continue Reading →
After Shabbat, our first Jewish feast was Rosh Hashanah. In the Old Testament this was the feast of trumpets. It's the beginning of the Jewish New Year and they're supposed to play the shofar a lot, hence the trumpets. And you've got 10 days until the Day of Atonement so you're supposed to be thinking... Continue Reading →
We've started learning about early Egypt. Kids have made costumes. We've made pyramids out of magna tiles, sticks, and play doh. We've reenacted the unification of Egypt and we're in the process of making 3d maps of the Nile. In science we've played with blocks, set paper on fire with the sun, and made sun... Continue Reading →
For Labor Day weekend we took a trip up to Ashland to see my parents, aunt and grandmother. My dad was doing the sermon and we just wanted to enjoy the green oasis that is their property and see the updated my dad had made to his green house. We all had a fun, relaxing... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 