Our homeschooling and home building story.
For Fathers' Day weekend we joined my second family in Sacramento and we went to Muir Woods and Stinson Beach. It was Cas' first time in the redwoods and Ari's first time in many years. We had a lovely time. We crossed all the bridges and walked all the main trails. Ari and Cas earned... Continue Reading →
We've been busy so this is a rather late post. For Cas' kindergarten graduation he wanted to go mini golfing somewhere he had never mini golfed before. And we were having friends visit for a week so he wanted to wait until his friends were visiting so they could come too. We had a great... Continue Reading →
We have a very loose routine in the summer with a lot more free time for our kids. They can't just spend all their free time on screens so they have requirements before they can have screen time and each screen time is 30 minutes. They also have both a summer reading challenge and a... Continue Reading →
The end of the school year is always a busy time. We've had graduations to attend, school, and Sabbath school parties, a death in the (extended) family, had a bunny spayed and had lots of fun and outside time. Our butterflies hatched and we were able to release all but one of them. One of... Continue Reading →
Frog week! We have tadpoles and we have chrysalis's. Two of the chrysalis's hatched today. Cas knew they were getting close and he spent an hour this morning staring at them. He ate his breakfast, brushed his hair and his teeth and got changed watching the chrysalis...walked away for 5 minutes and...one hatched. He was... Continue Reading →
It's been butterfly week! Unfortunately I've been slacking on taking pictures. We had gorgeous weather last week and got outside by the levee and caught tadpoles and water-bugs and threw rocks in the water and had a good time. Over the weekend, the weather turned cold and wet again and we huddled inside. Our caterpillars... Continue Reading →
So the reason for our quick trip to Florida and Epcot fun was because Ari's PBE team had made it to Division level (the last level). And division testing was held in Florida. Again, for PBE there is a chosen book of the Bible for the year and teams have to study/memorize that book so... Continue Reading →
Next we've been doing r for rock and j for jewel. We did some sorting of rocks and learned about birthstones and looked at a video of the late queen of England to see some royal jewels. The kids have been doing more cooking and helping around the house. Ari vacuums her room and the... Continue Reading →
We had a real quick trip to Florida last weekend and we spent a day at Epcot. Considering we just spent a day at Disneyland last month, I have some comparisons to make. Epcot and Disney World are way more complicated than Disneyland as far as getting your tickets set up and running genie +.... Continue Reading →
We returned from our spring break to find... it was the week before Easter! And of course our spring break had lasted through Tuesday so we only had half a week to do our Easter activities. We crammed Sense of the Resurrection into two days instead of our normal two weeks. That meant we had... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 