I know, you’re tired of hearing how wonderful our co-op is!  But seriously, it is.  Friday night was our annual competition night.  The children choose from all sorts of competitions to enter – music, art, cooking, Bible memorization, science fair, construction, knitting/crochet/sewing, spelling bee – and maybe even more.
Here are a few pictures from the [...]

I know I gush often about our Keepers At Home Group, but it really is a wonderful thing!  Yesterday we took a break from “practical” stuff to party!
Each of the girls was asked to prepare a dish and bring the recipe.  (We’re putting the recipes together in a little booklet for them.)  After reading the [...]

Just recently, our local 4-H agent, Lois, started a Homeschool 4-H Club.  Can I just tell you how awesome it is???
We decided early on that we wanted it to be hands-on, meaningful and service oriented.  Forget the meeting minutes and officers and such!  Well, we met for our first meeting this week and it exceeded every [...]

Look what I woke up to this morning!!  Mahayla found an old time alarm clock in the basement that she wanted to try out.   It woke her, or should I say EVERYBODY, up at 6:20 this morning.  While Eli and I snoozed on, she put her Betty Crocker cookbook to good use and brought warm cinnamon struesel muffins [...]

We jumped on the bandwagon today.  Several of my blogging friends have followed Jamin’s instructions for making a solar oven, and it looked like so much fun that we had to try it, too!

It was fun!  And easy!  A pizza box, some aluminum foil, pencils, tape and sun are all you need to make the [...]