We’re home. After 10.75 hours spent driving 650 miles with seven children in one overloaded van, we made it home last night at 6:30pm. I’m pretty sure I lost a few years off my life over the course of the drive. Word to the wise: place your least talkative child/ren nearest the driver during such trips. […]
TOS Review: Institute for Excellence in Writing
When the Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) came up as a review possibility, I was thrilled. I have heard fabulous things about IEW and was so hopeful to get to check them out for myself. I received the Deluxe Combinations Teaching Writing: Structure and Style, Student Writing Intensive Level A plus A Word Write Now and Portable Walls. […]
TOS Review: Apologia Educational Ministries
Apologia Educational Ministries asked the Old Schoolhouse Magazine’s Review Crew to review it’s Exploring Creation Field Trip Journal. As part of the Crew, I received one journal for my family to use and review. When I saw the write up about this journal, I wasn’t thrilled. Not because I didn’t expect it to be good […]
Friday: June 5, 2015
We’re camping this weekend in South Dakota with my parents. My sister went back to Nevada earlier this week and the kids and I are here for a pioneer/Indian Wars reenactments and a wagon train reenactment before we head back south to Missouri early next week. Tents, teepees, toy tamahawks, and skunk skins… Way too […]
It’s-Not-Friday-Anymore Photos
I missed Friday photos in the midst of transporting 8 of us 650 miles yesterday. But… Here’s my funniest photos of the week, courtesy of Blaine, starring Tell. Laugh for the week: check. You’re welcome.
I like to tell myself that they were thrilled.
Two weeks ago today, I arrived home from our local homeschool conference and returned a missed phone call from my sister. She informed me she was a day’s drive down the road headed to my house from Nevada. I hadn’t seen her in three and a half years. So for nearly two weeks now, Alex […]
Ha! I managed to get a photo of Sterling with his creation with his new wood burner. We spent the majority of the day at the zoo, seeing, for the first time in a very long time, perhaps ever, every single zoo creature. It was fun. And I’m exhausted. And now a poll: how on […]
Sterling turns eight and other pieces of our day.
Sterling turned eight years old today. It is hard to believe and strange all at the same time. My dear boy is growing up. We got him a wood burner. A handheld tool to burn a pattern into wood, he had a fabulous time with it all afternoon. I’ll try to get a photo of […]
Friday’s Photos 5/22/15
It’s been a week. Apparently little was funny. All I found on my phone was Maisie dreaming of the meals she’d have from the new bag of dog food I just bought. We’re in the middle of insurance adjustors and craziness. Blaine’s van is headed for the junk yard this weekend, but his truck is […]
Drama
Saturday in the night, the tornado sirens went off signaling a tornado warning. We gathered all the kids and headed to the basement. We all huddled in the dirt basement, listening to the thunder, wind, and rain around the house. There was a loud gust of wind and lots of noise, and then all was […]
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