Our homeschooling and home building story.
This week was filled with sunshine and boxes and fun. The ivy-kids box that both kids did together was on sorting so we did lots of sorting. We sorted buttons, plastic jewels, building shapes, and letters. We created rules for sorting and found objects that did or didn't fit our rules and the others had... Continue Reading →
We've had a good spring break. I got our taxes filed and we got some good spring cleaning/organizing done in the apartment. I made ranger cookies and we shared them with our contractor and with our new neighbors. The kids got lots of playtime and Ari still had some school since her spring break isn't... Continue Reading →
Please pray for our project and the events of the last year... covid etc. and all the delays it's put on our project and such so please pray for our project. On the good news side... we have all the walls now! Our living room was the last to get walls because they needed to... Continue Reading →
Exciting developments this week. The track did arrive at the end of last week and so Ari's room was put together this week. She was super stoked. Also our balcony railing and the inside railing were delivered and installed which means...I no longer have to hold Cas' hand when upstairs! He can explore more freely... Continue Reading →
The couple of months after Christmas are both the months we can tend to get the most done in school...and the months that I sometimes feel are the most dull and I start planning the fun ahead to help me get through them. Anyways, I am trying to figure out what we're doing next year... Continue Reading →
This week was rough for me. Found out at the beginning of the week that...they discovered some of our house materials were missing from the order. They contacted the company and they are going to reimburse but...the pieces are made to order...not in stock anywhere so...it's a 3 week wait on those materials. That plus... Continue Reading →
And I took pictures this week! The sad news this week was...our property got like 6 inches of snow in one night for the first time since we've lived in the area and...we couldn't be up there to enjoy it!!! The happy news was, we went out for soft serve ice cream instead 😛 Ari... Continue Reading →
Because of the long weekend, this was a short week. I also didn't get many pictures. We did our regular school and we spent a week observing how the moon changes and reading some books on the moon. We watched a couple videos on Martin Luther King Jr. and we learned a bit about the... Continue Reading →
Went up to see the progress and...we have stairs! I happen to know...I went up and down them a bajillion times with my stair happy Cas. He was thrilled. Now we just need second floor floors and walls so he can go up and down those stairs himself without a hand-holder 😉 They expect to... Continue Reading →
First floor walls are pretty much complete as is the ceiling blocking so that the second floor can be started on next week!
Returning to Paradise 