Our homeschooling and home building story.
So...our garage has been a disaster. Partially a biproduct of moving into an unfinished house and so...being full of construction equipment and table saws and unfinished trim. It's been a pain in the neck and of course had no room for our vehicles. Caleb decided a goal of his this summer was to get it... 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 →
Although we book-ended our spring break with travel, we did get some work done at our house as well. Our contractors came and got a bunch more of the trim done and patched the holes in the walls created by the hvac guy. Our trim is almost finished! We got several Red Hot Pokers planted... 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 →
The house project really messes with my resolutions...last couple of years they get thrown to the wayside when the house needs attention. Let's see how I did with last years resolutions... I did not finish or get to the NT going through the Bible with the Picture of God in All 66...I made it through... Continue Reading →
We spent a good portion of Christmas break working on our house. We worked on the kitchen sink and garbage disposal and the downstairs bathroom. We got the bathroom flooring and toilet completely finished and the downstairs sink almost finished. CalHers guy did his part and helped Caleb do our part. The electricians finished their... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 