What a great weekend!  Hubby and I were able to go to the CHEK Convention Friday and Saturday, and boy was it good this year!   The speakers were great and the vendor halls were packed. Ken Ham (from Answers In Genesis and the Creation Museum) and his brother Steve were the keynote speakers.  You gotta [...]

I need structure.  My children do, too.  A couple of years ago, I tried giving them blank paged notebooks for nature study, and, well, the pages are still mostly blank.  Since we aren’t naturally gifted in sketching or drawing, nor do we eloquently come up with poetry or wise words about nature, those blank pages [...]

One of my best real-life friends, Melissa, has a great post about birds on her blog.  She gives a recipe for homemade suet and a couple of websites about bird watching.  Her ideas go along with our bird center perfectly!

Did you know your children can make some serious money at the fair?  This was our first year for entering any projects, so Mahayla only entered her basket and lamp.  But she won 1st place in her class for each project and earned $8.00.  She also won reserve grand champion for her lamp!  Think about how [...]

Wanna fun project for a Dad and son to do together?  Building a miniature rocket is just that kind of project. Building the rocket took only a 1/2 an hour on each of two days.  (It took two days because of cement drying time.)  This little rocket went something like 750 ft into the air!  [...]