I have so many little matters to tell you of, that I cannot wait any longer before I begin to put them down.
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Jan 17th, 2018
Yesterday was pretty much back to normal around here. Maryellen worked on her +9 facts with Susie, we had PE down at the track (training for a race in Montana this summer!), and we spent a lot of the day reading Mr. Revere and I (to go with our Lexington and Concord history timeline card).
Last week, we headed up to Milwaukee for a quick visit. We met up with the Driscolls and admired how much our families had grown since JJ and Tommy were the 3L babies back in Indian Lakes Apartments, then while Derek gave a talk for the local Fed SoCal chapter, the kids and I checked […]
Posted in Homeschooling, Iowa, Susanna on Nov 12th, 2017
This weekend, just Tommy and Susie and I headed out to the Hoover Presidential Museum. It’s smaller than the Reagan Library, so we were through in under an hour. Susie was particularly fond of this Chinese robe from when the Hoovers were living in China. Sometimes it’s nice to go through a museum with only […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Nov 9th, 2017
The kids and I just spent a long weekend learning about Chicago history and architecture while Derek had a conference. It’s a great city to visit, if not our favorite place to live! Save
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Iowa, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 27th, 2017
We wanted to get in one more time before our reciprocal membership ended this month, and the kids had just as much fun as last time! We checked out their creation lab and did a lot of hammering and screwing and hot glue ingredients. Best of all, today no one needed to be carried out, […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Iowa, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 30th, 2017
Today we checked out Living History Farms, just outside of Des Moines. It’s a 1875 era town, with three living farms (Ioway Indians, 1850 settlers, 1900 farmers) that feature authentic reenactors to explain all sorts of little details about daily life in a small Iowa town in the 19th century. We helped the printer work […]
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 […]
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!
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 […]
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 […]