Last week we wrapped up a very fun Ancient History unit.  After learning what history is, we spent about a week on each of the following civilizations:  Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Israel, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient China and Ancient Aztecs. This past week, I asked them each to choose the civilization that was [...]

This week’s Inspiration….. Here’s another quote that speaks very much to my philosophy of homeschooling.  Enjoy! Quote of the Week As I have come home – all the way home – to teach my children, I have found that God has riches in store for the family teaching their children as a lifestyle.  Those riches [...]

We’re having such a good time creating our monthly, er, every six-eight week newsletter!  Here’s the latest installment….. Yes, as you can see we do trick-or-treat.  I know it’s a controversial topic among Christians, but I hope it won’t become controversial here.  Our children enjoy dressing up and eating candy.  That’s all.  No more, no less.  :)

Our Keepers group has started up again.  At the first meeting, the girls made potholders that turned out SO cute!  Thanks, Edith, for such a fun, easy and cute sewing project. Our second meeting was a tour of a 1700′s house that’s in the process of renovation.  The owner of the house gave us a [...]

We celebrated my 36th birthday this week.  Mahayla had such big plans for a homemade cake with homemade chocolate icing.  The cake was wonderful, but to her dismay, we didn’t have enough powdered sugar in the pantry to make icing.  So, we simply sprinkled the little bit of powdered sugar over the fresh cake and [...]