I am really behind on my posting, but I wanted to shared these pictures anyway. Over our Christmas holiday we went to the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC (we didn’t stay there!) and looked at gingerbread houses that were on display for a contest. These houses were absolutely incredible. We couldn’t believe some of…
It’s New Years Day and I have just a second to pop in. We had a wonderful Christmas celebration and I’m trying to do all those wonderful start of the year things. For my blog I have done away with the library book background and have gone to this new, simple template. I find it…
Here are my decorations for the Tour of Homes. First, of course is the Christmas tree. This is our advent calendar. I made this about 8 years ago and it is one of our favorite Christmas traditions. The fireplace. This is a cute little nativity that my grandmother made for me. It would…
It seems like everytime I sit down to post in my blog, someone needs me or something and I don’t have time to write. It has been an interesting week of school. I know a lot of people just don’t school at all in the month of December, but I have found that we do…
Wow, things have been going, going, going around here. I didn’t mean for a whole week to go by without another post. Homeschooling went better after my post from last week. I shared with my husband about some of the struggles I was having with my older son and his constant questions about off-topic things…
We went to a birthday party this Saturday for a friend of my children. I had a very nice time talking with one friend from church. We "compared notes" about some of the behavior issues we have with our sons. She used an analogy that I’ve continued to ponder. She said she felt like she…
Here are the pictures of my ds lapbook on inventors. He’s 9-1/2 years old. My daughter made one too, but they’re similar so I’m not posting pictures of hers. By Kristen H.
For anyone who enjoys maps, I just found a really fun geography website. The site Worldmapper.org has maps of the world where the areas of the countries are relatively enlarged or shrunken for comparisons to other nations. For example, this is the Total Population map. You an see that China and India are much “fatter” than the…
Today I have made sweet potato casserole (except for topping and baking), a pumpkin pie, and cranberry sauce. I had the kids clean the dining room table and chairs. I need to do a little more cleaning, but not too bad, so I decided to take a little break. I finished making a photo collage…
Yesterday was my birthday. My husband gave me my first gift on Thursday evening which was this coffee maker. Then yesterday morning I didn’t get up at 5:20 to work out at the Y. In fact, I didn’t get out of bed until 7:30 and I stayed in my pajamas until 10:30 (that is not something…