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I asked Kent if we could skip the flowers and candy this Valentine’s Day. Neither of us is a big fan of the “Hallmark holidays.” He agreed. But then, later in the afternoon, I found this: No… It’s not a diamond necklace. My husband knows me far too well! Inside was this: It’s a new…
Jayda has decided she no longer wants to walk. No… Instead, she wants to RUN! She is so hilarious. She tries to run all around the house. Her little chunky legs are so unsteady that she usually only makes it about five steps before she falls over. Like a little kid with new shoes, she…
Are they getting taller or is that tree shrinking? 5 of 52 4 of 52 3 of 52 2 of 52 1 of 52
Our home-school co-op had a Valentine’s exchange after our regular classes. The kids got excited about making boxes for their valentines and worked hard on them all week. Andrew’s was a Sonic themed car. He is really into Sonic lately and spends lots of time coloring Sonic pictures, drawing Sonic and playing an imaginary Sonic…
Today we went roller skating! We have tried taking the kids roller skating in the past, but it wasn’t real successful. Now that they have been ice skating all winter, I felt more confident they could handle themselves on the rink. Every Thursday, one of the local rinks has a home-school skate. This week, it…
Jayda is really starting to get active now that she is a full-fledged walker. However, her favorite activity is still to be carried by Mom or Dad. Because of this, she has earned the nickname of “hip rider” (or HR for short). As you might imagine, this gets kind of tiring for a mom who…
We had a field trip today with our home-school co-op to a science museum about 20 minutes from our house. This was a ton of fun. They had converted an old downtown post office into the SciTech Museum, which was full of hands-on experiments perfect for the ages of our kids. We felt like we…
One of our assignments for our Biology class this year was to take the little radish sprouts we have been growing and eat them. We were supposed to divide the sprout into three sections and try to determine in which section the radish grows. OK. It’s kind of funny that my kids don’t really know…
It is unbelievable how much snow we have had in the last week. Just when we think it could not possibly snow more, it does! On Sunday, we woke up to big sticky flakes falling from the sky. By the time we got home from church, we had lots of fresh snow to work on…
A company in our area opened its warehouse on Saturday to host a Feed My Starving Children event. They invited our church to participate. The three older kids and my husband volunteered for two hours. Everyone takes a different job and works in an assembly-line fashion to pack up meals, which are then sent to…
