Eight Boys and Eight Girls
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, Iowa, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 10th, 2017
When the Havemans, Lashmits, Isbells, and Mullers get together for dinner, there are 16 kids 12 and under! We love our Iowa homeschool friends.
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Derek gave a talk at Notre Dame last week, so the kids and I came along to see our South Bend friends! Susie was in Columbia for the week, but the other three immediately hit it off with the Skeens and Page-Woods, and we got to hang out with the Raglands not once, but twice! […]
Hoover Presidential Library with the Gregorys!
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Iowa, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 29th, 2017
It has been so fun to see so many Hillsdale friends while we’re in the Midwest. Kristen Gregory grew up down the road in West Branch, so we were thrilled to see them this week when they were out to visit her family! We met up with them at the Hoover Library for a joint […]
After the girl’s club play date last week, their ten year old brothers decided they needed their own play date. Nerf guns figured heavily. Save
A Nature Hike at Kent Park
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Iowa, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 20th, 2017
This morning, the Isbells took us to Kent Park and showed us one of their favorite nature hikes. We saw milkweed pods, prairie grasses taller than us (with roots three times as big), lots of bugs and flowers, and a bull snake!
Girls Club
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, Iowa, Susanna on Sep 19th, 2017
Take four eight-year-old homeschool girls (and their little sisters), and you’ll probably end up with a Girls’ Club, or GC for short. My girls worked hard yesterday to make perler bead club badges in the shape of dolphins. Today at their play date/meeting they all dipped their fingers in friendship potion so they’ll stay friends […]
This Week’s Field Trip Adventure: Family Museum with the Neuendorfs!
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Iowa, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 15th, 2017
Today we headed over to the Quad Cities again for another field trip date with Leah and the kids. I was a little iffey on whether Tommy would find the Family Museum too babyish, but he ended up loving the water table system and spent over an hour working on different ways to control the […]
First Week of School
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Iowa, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 10th, 2017
Well, the first week of school was a rough one, even with Grandma coming in to help for our first day! There were lots of tears and definitely a frustrated teacher. But on Monday, we took a nature hike with the Lashmits by Lake Macbride, we swam and played at the park before Grandma left […]
The Eclipse!
Posted in Elizabeth, Family, Friends, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Aug 22nd, 2017
The kids and I came down to Columbia this week to observe the total eclipse. It was definitely the coolest natural phenomenon I have ever seen! We had lots of fun with the funky glasses, and Grandpa made extra sure that the kids would be safe by adding masks on top.
With Derek out of town all week, we’ve been trying to keep ourselves busy and distracted. So today we drove an hour east to Davenport to meet up with Leah and her kids for the day! She had met Tommy once or twice as a baby, but we haven’t lived in the same state since […]