On Thursday of last week I reminded the kids that Daddy’s birthday was coming up.  Within hours, Caleb had designed and built these two gifts.  I heard lots of hammering at the barn and the next thing I knew, Mahayla had hooked the wagon to the lawn tractor in an effort to help Caleb hide the (enormous) gifts under [...]

Weather was the last stop of our Earth Science unit.  As has become our end of unit habit, the kids had to develop a presentation to show something they learned.
Mahayla chose to write a letter from the viewpoint of a drop of water going through the water cycle.  It was very cute!  She also drew [...]

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned here before that my husband accepted the youth minister position at church earlier in the year.  Because I’m his help-meet we work with children from about kindergarten through high school.  Honestly, it’s been a tough adjustment for me – even playing a huge role in me deciding to give [...]

Thanks to our area minor league baseball team, we had FREE tickets to one of their games this weekend!  The Lexington Legends host a reading challenge each year that allows kids to read for two free tickets to a game.  Both of our older children earned two tickets, so off we went…….

This weekend was also [...]

I know many of you homeschool year ’round and as much as I think the idea is wonderful, I enjoy my nice, long summer break too much.  (Not to mention canning and freezing season makes doing school almost impossible in the summer.)  Anywho – we have only TWO WEEKS left!  Can you just feel my [...]