This chocolate cream pie recipe is from some dear friends of ours who we used to spend a lot of time with years ago. We think of Michael & Tanya everytime we make this pie. CHOCOLATE CREAM PIE 4 1/2 cup whole milk 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream Place above …

We’ll Race You, HENRY – A Story about Henry Ford is a great Lower Grammar book about Henry Ford which Nathan really enjoyed listening to during our study of the Progressive Era the last few weeks.  This book introduces Henry as a young boy growing up on the family farm …

This year Nathan (3rd grade) will be studying Zoology 3:  Land Animal of the Sixth Day and the Periodic Table at our homeschool co-op.  It’s shaping up to be a GREAT year with these two very interesting subjects! Here’s the description of the Zoology 3 book from the Apologia Science …

Nathan has no problem falling asleep in the car so this is how we find him after almost every excursion (while on vacation which is when this picture was taken this past winter) or trip to town.

I’d like to share the following email which I received from PaperBackSwap this morning.  I’ve already donated some of my PBS Credits to the Story Time with Soldiers program.  Please consider doing the same!  If you don’t have any PBS credits, you can donate $$ instead! If you’re not a …

Our co-op put on another MCT play this spring.  This year’s play was Sleeping Beauty in which Nathan was an “angry caterpillar.”  He’s not in the photo below, but I wanted to post a picture of Sleeping Beauty, the King and Queen, and other supporting cast members. I didn’t take …

For the longest time we didn’t have a door for the new part of the house.  Instead, we moved the old outside door to wall which used to be between the kitchen and the back entryway so we could lock the house right at the edge of the kitchen.  On Mother’s …

Our homeschool athletic association held its annual awards ceremony a couple of weeks ago.  What a joy to see Emily working with the 5th and 6th grade girls as one of their volleyball coaches. Above, she’s cheering for each of the girls and giving them hugs after they received their …

It’s about time I get around to updating some of the sidebar pictures on the blog.  I LOVE this one of Josh all dressed up for the annual Spring Ball!  It’s hard to believe he’ll be 14 next month! 

I’ve posted before how Nathan uses our bay window as his stage for holding church worship services!  Recently, (as in just after Easter) he added a new “light feature.”  I guess the Easter buckets won’t be going back into the closet this year!