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 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 […]
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 […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Family, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 9th, 2017
Our second day in Chicago last weekend was spent at MSI, my all-time favorite museum! Tommy totally did not remember all the times he’d been there, but we tried to recreate a few classic photo ops. Everyone had a blast, and we’re looking forward to coming back sometime.
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Sep 1st, 2017
We are enjoying a mini vacation in Chicago this weekend, and today we checked out Adler Planetarium, which we last visited in 2010! Tommy was in space-obsessed boy heaven. We checked into the hotel, recorded our adventures in our field trip journals, visited POSH (my favorite store in Chicago), and met up with Grandma and […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Family, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Aug 26th, 2017
Posted in Elizabeth, Family, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Aug 23rd, 2017
The kids spent the night at the cabin with Grandma and Grandpa last night. Save
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.
The Iowa Children’s Museum sponsored a great open-ended play party downtown yesterday. As you can see, it was totally our cup of tea!
Posted in Elizabeth, Iowa, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Aug 16th, 2017
In two weeks, we’ve been to the library almost a dozen times. Both of the city libraries around here are just so great! The Iowa City summer reading program is amazing, with daily events at the library (last week, the kids watched the Lego Batman movie on Monday and made veggie pizzas on Friday) and […]