Our homeschooling and home building story.
We did our annual cherry picking trip to Stagecoach Lane Ranch. The kids rode the bench seat in the wagon, played corn hole, rode the tiny pedal wagon, picked 10 pounds of cherries, and tried cherry ice cream. We gave 2 pounds of cherries to a neighbor but otherwise we ate the other 8 pounds... Continue Reading →
We had a free goat grazing festival first weekend in June. It was a fun place to spend 30-45 minutes. They had baby goats to pet and big goats to feed and you could watch a goat herding dog demonstration. There were also lots of booths with things for sale or information on being wildfire... Continue Reading →
We haven't gone to the Silver Dollar Fair since before Covid so Cas didn't ever remember visiting. We passed the fair being set up on our way to swim lessons and Cas asked about it. We didn't have anything else planned for the weekend, so we took a day and went to the fair. We... Continue Reading →
This spring, Ari and Cas got to participate in the local Adventist school's musical production: the Three Piggy Opera. Ari tried out and got one of the main parts: the wolf! Cas got to be part of the jury with the other younger kids. My mother-in-law made them each their costumes, we spent weeks singing... Continue Reading →
We got 3 adorable ducklings the beginning of May. Ducklings are adorable, clumsy, skittish, little messy pigs, and they grow like they're on steroids. You felt like you could almost see them growing. At 6 weeks they're essentially full size and fully feathered. The neighbors chicks that they got at about the same time...are still... 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 →
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 →
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 →
Our next Jewish holiday to celebrate was Hanukkah. We read picture books to learn the history of Hanukkah, we made our own menorah's and dreidels and enjoyed eating by candlelight 8 nights in a row.
Returning to Paradise 