Our homeschooling and home building story.
Last Friday we woke up to nearly a foot of snow! It was amazing! We knew a storm was possible so I'd done our grocery shopping ahead of time and the school had called a snow day so we were able to all just hunker down at home. The kids had a blast in the... Continue Reading →
Tomorrow we hand in the last key to our old duplex. We've lived in our house for 2 weeks already! It is different moving into an unfinished house. Our last house was old but everything was in place and it was finished. Our HVAC still isn't complete and we've had a rare snowstorm...thankfully we have... Continue Reading →
Since my last post we have had many friends and church members and family come and help us on our house! Ari commented on it one day, that we have such a caring and helpful church community. She asked if all churches were like that and I said...well, they should be. We did everything on... Continue Reading →
This is not the post I'd hoped to write today. We were scheduled to have our final inspection today. We had done everything our regular inspector said we needed to do and then he would pass us. He failed to mention that he isn't the person who does final inspections. He said that we could... Continue Reading →
We've been having fun around here! Kids earned more prizes with their read aloud challenge. They chose to camp out at the house over the weekend and to have a board game night. We've also been learning about insects. We made play doh insects, ate ladybug snacks, watched youtube videos on ants, sang the ants... Continue Reading →
Water water everywhere. It's the perfect week for studying water because we're getting lots of rain! We've studied the 3 phases of water, exploring liquid, solid and gas: water, ice and steam. We explored evaporation and absorption and saturation. We did watercolor painting and went out in the rain and felt it on our skin... Continue Reading →
We've had a lot going on around here! We had 2 sets of friends from out of town come to visit. One for a day, and the other kids stayed with us for a long weekend. We also did a quick getaway to Monterey, to see the mission for Ari's California history and to see... Continue Reading →
This week was dinosaur week! We forgot to take a picture of our books but we had a lot of good ones! Favorites included When Dragons Hearts Were Good, How do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?, What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs?, and Three Little Dinosaurs. Ari's favorite was Dinotopia and I can't blame her. The... Continue Reading →
Life was a little more exciting this week because Ari took a tumble and managed to break 3 fingers. Thankfully all in her left hand. But that has meant many hours waiting at clinics, radiologists and consults and we aren't done yet. We've also had lots to do at our house: cleaning up drywall dust,... Continue Reading →
This week was T for turtle and also for perseverance using Aesop's fable of the tortoise and the hair. We made turtle snacks, pretended to be turtles with box shells, and made a turtle craft. We read several books. Favorites were Yertle the Turtle, Big Turtle, The Tortoise and the Hare, and Oopsy-Daisy. It was... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 