Today is bittersweet for us.  As you’ll see below, the boys and I have been having lots of fun celebrating Valentine’s Day.  However, today is Mahayla’s 13th birthday and she’s sick.  She and I were supposed to be going to CIY Believe together later this afternoon with the Jr. High youth group, too.  Oh well, [...]

This past weekend, our family took a Christmas train ride at the Bluegrass Railroad Museum.  An old-fashioned steam engine pulled four antique passenger cars for an hour’s drive through the countryside.  The cars were decked out with lights and streamers, the conductor punched letters into our tickets Polar Express style, and merry music played in [...]

Since this season is proving to be extremely busy for us, I’m just going to direct you to my Christmas ideas and resources from past years rather than put up resources in the sidebar.  I’ll be adding anything new and exciting we do if time permits.  Make wonderful memories this December! Posts of Christmases Past

At co-op today, one of the mom’s room topics was about Easter plans  – meaningful celebrations and academic tie-ins. I’ve linked to some of my previous posts about Easter and included some of the new ideas we talked about today.  I’m excited to start making plans for my children and I hope this helps you [...]

Hubby and I celebrated Valentine’s Day on Saturday, so I decided to do a family Valentine’s Day celebration on Friday.  To get the excitement rolling, we ditched the math books and used little sweethearts to create graphs and find the mean, median and mode of candy that I gave them. We spent much of the [...]