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 Annie, Children's Books, Elizabeth, Friends, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 31st, 2022
Little Women! And this year, Tommy opted not to participate in the group costume. Instead, he and Quinn were Men in Black. We trick or treated with the Hedts and Schroeders again!
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, Janie, Susanna on Aug 1st, 2022
The Fisher girls stopped by Iowa City at the end of July for a few fun days filled with dressing up, tea parties, and dancing!
Posted in Elizabeth on May 17th, 2022
This beautiful girl had a super low-key birthday last week (as in, her sisters took so long baking her cake that we had it the next day). She really does mostly go by Lizzie most places nowadays, but whatever you call her, she’s a teenager! Thanks to some of the homeschool girlfriends with whom she’s […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Iowa, Janie, Susanna on Dec 15th, 2021
All three girls played in the Mid-Prairie Homeschool Assistance Program Christmas Concert! Between the band, orchestras, and choirs, about 150 kids participated. It was Janie’s first-ever public performance, and she did great! Grandma Willett even got to drive up to see it! Janie’s beginning viola class joined the whole combined orchestra for “Joy to the […]
Trick or treating happened again! Our new friends who moved here from Australia, the Hedts, invited us, the Shroeders, and Lashmits over to help them celebrate their first American Halloween. Our kids, of course, went as children’s book characters. Presenting the Mysterious Benedict Society! Milligan, the world’s best amnesiac secret agent dad, ready to protect […]
Posted in Annie, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Aug 20th, 2021
Since we were all in quarantine, we decided that our “soft start” to school this week would actually be a real start to school. We did sleep in an extra hour because Tommy was still tired at the beginning of the week, and I had to homeschool briefly from the couch Wed morning before retreating […]
Posted in Annie, Elizabeth, Iowa, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Jul 20th, 2021
The zoo in Des Moines had a special event on Sunday for families of special needs kids. So the kids and I drove over for Annie’s first trip to a zoo that she actually remembers. Everything was free–from sack lunches to giraffe feeding to all the rides!–and it felt great being back in a public […]
Our fun-filled weekend with Grandma and Grandpa ended with the big girls’ big spring orchestra concert. They joined orchestra in March, after a few months of private lessons, but they caught on quickly and were definitely major contributors to the beginner’s orchestra section. We were supposed to have the concert outside, but the 10% chance […]
Posted in Elizabeth on May 14th, 2021
We woke up with waffles and twelve books, then Elizabeth and Gabby hosted a joint birthday party at the ice rink (because the Fellers are thrifty like us, we just brought in Costco pizza to the cafe court before the girls got on the ice, which they had to themselves without a reservation because homeschooled […]
Posted in Elizabeth on May 10th, 2021
Last Saturday, we celebrated Elizabeth completing her Suzuki Book 1 with a recital at the house. Her cello teacher, Ghyas, is very cautious due to losing his dad to covid this winter while he was flying back to Syria to see him, so we were originally planning to have the recital in the back yard […]