Relaxed Homeschooling
When I first began homeschooling my oldest son, I was very concerned about getting everything covered. We had a very strict curriculum, with Math, Science, History and English every school day....
View ArticleA Breakfast Date — Spending Time with the Kids You Love
I had a hot date this morning. Maximus and I went out for breakfast at Guru’s. We got all hyper eating Bananas Foster Pancakes. We have a fairly recent tradition in our family. Each month, Daddy and...
View ArticleHiking with the Family — Cane Wash, San Rafael Swell
We are so lucky to live within driving distance of many of Utah’s beautiful hikes — both mountain and desert. The mountains are covered in snow right now, so we aren’t doing mountain hikes, but the...
View ArticleRelaxed Homeschooling — Community Art Resources
Sometimes I feel like I have split personality disorder. Half of me wants to be a completely unschooling, backwoods homesteader, while the other half of me wants to take advantage of every art and...
View ArticleLunar Eclipse
In my e-mail yesterday, I received a curriculum offer for ideas for studying the lunar eclipse that was going to happen this morning. I didn’t buy any curriculum, but I did put a reminder alarm in my...
View ArticleLooking into the New Year: Focusing on what’s really important
Are you looking at the person deep inside as you think about your goals for 2012? Let me share with you just a quote from a wonderful story I read by B. J. Chute, called The Jukebox and the...
View ArticleOur Mittens
For today: just a quick picture. A sweet friend gave the kids and I each beautiful handmade mittens. Now — if we would only have snow to use them!
View ArticleHappy Sunday
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” Michelangelo Hoping today that you set lofty goals and work to attain...
View ArticleSome of My Favorite Things January are . . .
This post is just a hodgepodge of a few things I think you will enjoy . . . things I enjoy. Follow this hiker as she rambles across the United States and Canada in her tiny trailer, taking wonderful...
View ArticleQuiet Blog = Finished Quilt
Only two years in the making . . . but remember correlation does not equal causation. It’s machine pieced, extensively hand quilted, and the first of its kind made exclusively for me . . . by me. And...
View ArticleCoyote Gulch April 2014
We did our second trip to Coyote Gulch this spring. We had planned two different trips last year, one in the spring, one in the fall. The first trip was canceled because Brett was overwhelmed with...
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