Our homeschooling and home building story.
Below are some pictures from our 2 weeks of family time and vacation. We wore lots of masks and had a couple outdoor gatherings and one visit to my parents that included quarantines and testing on both sides of the visit. We played games, read books and got outside in the snow. And most importantly,... Continue Reading →
After we came home from my parents, we got to relax at home and enjoy Thanksgiving vacation. We got our apartment cleaned up and organized, spent hours at the park, and did some simple Thanksgiving activities. We read some Thanksgiving books, made a few crafts and watched the Mayflower Voyagers starring the Peanuts crew. For... Continue Reading →
This week was another adventure. We got our first colds of the season, and yes, I'm quite sure they were colds and not covid-19. For one, there were no fevers and for another there was sneezing and from everything I can find, sneezing is not a symptom of covid. However, we did follow protocol and... Continue Reading →
This week started off with a fun trip to a relatively local, large, pumpkin patch. They definitely were not managing covid guidelines well. They had lots of signage and we saw a few people with "free masks" and we saw rides being sanitized. But the place was very popular and crowded and most people were... Continue Reading →
We're home! And the day after we got home...both Caleb and I had meetings for work. We had meetings or online classes on...how to teach online classes...every day this week. Most of the time we could trade off who had the kids and who was in meetings but sometimes we both had to be busy... Continue Reading →
The toughness this week...breaking ground on our house is postponed like a month and a half. Also our county is shut back down so... I'm likely to have to start the school year teaching online. Otherwise we’ve had a good week. I’m glad I got the kids into the library before it closed again and... Continue Reading →
April...is over. It went out tough. Ari stepped on a honey bee at the park on Sunday and got a lot of bee venom into her foot because she was scared to brush the bee off and it took a while for her dad to get across the field to her because he also had... Continue Reading →
Is it just me or does each week feel like a year right now? I sat down to write this post and was like...wow...was Easter just a week ago? I guess it was. This week has been a roller coaster ride. Easter was fun and had a pleasant surprise when some friends hid eggs in... Continue Reading →
It's crazy how things can change in just a week! At the beginning of this week, we had daylight savings time and the kids went grocery shopping with me. Cas' sleep schedule was completely out of whack for the first half of the week. Ari spent a whole day at school with dad going to... Continue Reading →
Since everyone is homeschooling now during the Covid-19 pandemic...I thought I'd share some resources available to parents who haven't had a chance to prepare. First is this huge spreadsheet of Education companies compiled by Amazing Educational Resources offering free subscriptions: http://www.amazingeducationalresources.com/ From the giant list above, I can personally recommend BrainPop Jr (learning videos on... Continue Reading →
Returning to Paradise 