Our children have been part of a Bible Bowl team this year. As skeptical as I am about children competing over God’s Word, they really have learned inside and out the material that was covered this year. Since the group has decided to take a break next year, I wanted to be sure to grab…
Happy Mother’s Day, Mom! This picture was taken last night at our church’s annual Mother-Daughter Banquet. Thank you gentlemen for a lovely evening!
As a fitting end to our Keepers At Home year, we had a little scrapbooking party. What great memories come from this group! (And, yes, even our boys have fun. But, ahem, shooting a foam deer with a bow and arrow in his Contenders of the Faith class at co-op was MUCH more manly! Thank…
Our final unit study of the year turned out to be a great one – even if it was on the lighter side of book learning. We had just finished an intensive study of the Middle Ages, which naturally covers a lot of Renaissance history. So, the main purpose of this study was to tie…
Don’t ya just love when kids use their imaginations and create really cool things? This afternoon, the older kids made great use of their free time (and I was able to get in a little discussion about simple and complex machines!) Caleb loves ladders, ropes, tools and other bits and pieces of boy stuff. Living…
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…
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…
So I’m sick with strep. (Feeling much better today. Thank the Lord for strong antibiotics!) My sweet older children offered to take little one out while I napped yesterday. Here’s what they did. Yes, it was only April 23rd. I suppose they cared more that the thermometer said 80. I’m just thankful I had the chance to nap!
Making hot rocks was SO much fun! Since we just happened to be doing the rocks and minerals section of our earth science unit, the craft fit in perfectly. The rocks turned out so well, we entered them in the craft division of our co-op’s expo. Heat rocks in the oven at 350 for 15…
Creative Memorization Ideas My all-time favorite creative memorization tool so far has been Times Tales! My oldest daughter had struggled with the upper multiplication facts for months. In ONE day of this program, she knew the facts! I’m not kidding! It uses little stories to tell about each fact. After doing the program with her, I still…
Yesterday was a b-u-s-y day! Between a 15-month checkup with shots (ouch!) for little one and his first haircut, we really put Eli through the ringer. I’d been waiting until we got the new camera before taking him for his first haircut and this picture shows just how badly he needed it. 🙂 You’ll see…
Even with almost half of our club missing due to a funeral/illness/traveling, the first ever meeting of our Creation Club was a BLAST! This month’s theme focused on why we study God’s creation and how God has perfectly designed plant and animal interdependency through food chains and predator/prey relationships. The meeting started with a reading of Psalm 95:…
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