Just a quick note tonight (ha! Am I capable of being quick? We shall see…). Today was the first day of our state homeschooling convention. After being up in the night herding the family down to the basement for a tornado warning and then shuttling the kids to their grandparents early this morning so we [...]

So today I read my email from the geocaching site and noticed there was a cache pretty close to our house. I decided we should try and find it for a fun little diversion. I’ve known about geocaching and have been registered on the site for a long time, but I’ve never actually gone out [...]

Does anybody remember the group Mummenschanz?  If you’re very far under the age of 40, you might not.  I seem to remember them being on Sesame Street and The Muppet Show.  Ah, those were the days.  Well, this video reminds me of something they would do and it’s very cool. I sat here watching this [...]

I don’t know what’s gotten into me, but lately I’ve been on a big baking kick. I’ve been looking at tons of recipes to try and they all look so good and I feel the need to make them all! My most recent baking foray took me to very familiar territory. Snickerdoodles. I’m pretty sure [...]

We got our first letter from our Compassion Child, Selina a few days ago. So exciting!  It was written on March 14, which was only about a week after we became her sponsors.  Pretty fast!  She answered some of the questions I asked her before she even got our first letter.  It looks like it [...]

I received this information today and thought it might be helpful to some of my readers. http://www.learninga-z.com/ Access to Thousands of FREE Resources During Teacher Appreciation Week We all owe much of our success in life to teachers everywhere. We at Learning A–Z want to thank educators the best way we know how—by opening up [...]

I’m trying not to lose my momentum with my project completion here. I’m having many discussions with myself about whether it is better to seed and fertilize before or after the predicted rain over the next several days, if I should even be doing this in the spring rather than the fall, if I can [...]

…just looking at the picture of these bars. Oh. My. Word. I am so making these as soon as my husband is done with his challenge diet. 2 more weeks to go! I mean, seriously. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake Bars? Each word you read just makes it better and better. And that doesn’t even [...]

If you’ve been reading my blog lately, you’ll know that we are now sponsoring a little Tanzanian girl through Compassion International. My desire to do this was brought to a head as I read the blog posts from a group of bloggers who recently went to Uganda on a Compassion trip. One of those bloggers [...]

My husband took Friday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday off from work. Usually we make plans for these times and then get very little, if anything, done. Well, not this time! I don’t think I’ve had such a continuous stretch of manual labor…ever. Here is what we’ve accomplished over the last few days, in no particular [...]