APPLES TO APPLES From the box: The Game of Hilarious Comparisons where EVERYONE’s opinion counts! It’s as easy as comparing apples to apples (LOL). Basically, there are red apple noun cards and green apple adjective cards. Each person is dealt 7 red apple cards from which you select the card …

ME AND MY SHADOW! We are studying poems this weekend. Thanks to one of my SHS friends sending a link for a Diamante Poems interactive tool, we decided to try our hand at one: SHADOW Silent, tall Following, imitating, mirroring, A pantomime that echoes your every move- Copying, reflecting, mimicking, …

TWENTY-ONE YEARS!Today, October 19th we celebrated our 21st anniversary. I’m not sure where 21 years have gone because it sure doesn’t seem like we should be this old. We should have had the girls come around the table to get in the picture with us. We went out to eat …

Don’t you have an older daughter? I’ve had several people say our blog is weighted toward the boys. That’s because the girls don’t like their pictures taken. You can’t take a picture until they’ve showered and fixed their hair, they have to approve the photo, etc. I managed to get …

OUR SECOND SNOW DAY!It’s hard to believe that we’ve already had a couple of snow days and it’s not even the end of October yet. Normally we get our first snow right around the end of October. Tim was home since it was too wet to work. He helped Josh …

IT’s SNOWING AGAIN! I’m starting to wonder if winter might really be here to stay for awhile. It snowed off and on last week and you already read about our SNOW DAY tradition in previous blogs so I won’t repeat that again. However, we really CAN do our full traditional …

CORN MAIZE:Today we went to the corn maize with some of our fellow homeschoolers. I wasn’t going to take the time off from “school” to do this, however, it was SO NICE outside and it “did” tie in with our school when you consider that corn was one of the …

This year Josh and Nathan are both using Apologia’s elementary Botany course with our homeschool co-op. Yes, you read that right. The mom teachers are even doing botany with the preschoolers in our co-op. So far Nathan has learned that flowers make seeds. The first week all of the kids …

TODAY IS A SNOW DAY! It actually snowed here on Monday, but it didn’t “count officially” in our book because it didn’t stick to the ground. However, the flakes were BIG FAT HEAVY WET ones which fell on and off all day that day. Today, the snowflakes were very fine …

MOVING CHURCH! A Lutheran Church in town asked us to move a church from Box Elder to Billings. It was quite an endeavor which took several weeks. When it was close enough to town, Grandma Jan picked up the boys and took them in so they could be a part …