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Sometimes you need a change of scenery. When my kids are at their absolute worst, I like to throw them in the car and head out for a hike. We have a trail just ten minutes from my house that’s perfect. Sometimes when we’re hiking, we see unbelievably long carp swimming in the stream under the […]

I started writing a post awhile ago about why we started homeschooling. There are lots of reasons, of course, but the best reason I could come up with is that homeschooling gives my kids and I time together. Lots of time. Too much time. (Ha ha. Kidding… mostly). Take our mornings, for example. Back when my […]

One of the most popular posts on my first blog was how I messed up four batches of cinnamon rolls in one week. No matter how hard I tried to make them, they came out … well … hard. Ha. Thankfully, complete and total failure didn’t turned me off baking altogether – I just dusted […]

The other day we were driving home from Ikea and we stopped at a red light beside a homeless man. He stood on the median right beside our car with a scrap of cardboard that said something like “Hungry. Anything helps.” I knew I didn’t have anything; we had just left Ikea where I’d actually put my […]

We were able to pull off a few April Fools’ Day tricks on River this morning. We stayed up late last night to get them set up – super late because just like Christmas Eves and the nights before birthdays, River couldn’t fall asleep and was awake until after midnight. When she fell asleep, we sprang […]

My husband and I took the girls to a frog exhibit a few weeks ago. When we passed by the gift shop, the girls noticed the small aquariums with the African Dwarf Frogs for sale. They of course asked if we could buy one and I of course said no and my husband of course […]