Ever since the little chicks’ traumatizing night when 5 got murdered…they have been in with the big girls. They have actually done very well! I have always been so nervous about adding new birds to existing ones because I know there is a pecking order and I don’t want the new ones, especially the littles, […]
The commonwealth we joined is made up with only 10 families per group. So far there are 3 groups of 10 families. I am part of the Gimel group. It is set up according to the ways that they put Mormon pioneer families together so that no family would be forgotten and all families had […]
We are really focusing on doing a field trip every Friday. With our school schedule being only a 4 day a week schedule…sometimes it is hard, but we have a great home-school community that plans field trips on most Fridays. So we are able to join in when we can! A couple Fridays ago we […]
As you can kinda tell I love how people lived from the past…I love to study pioneers, history, past forms of gardening, natural medicines, raising food, being self-sustaining and most of all being prepared! One way that takes me back to the past is our yearly trip to the mountain man rendezvous. I have been […]
“Commonwealth… a community founded for the common good.” I put the definition here because I didn’t know what commonwealth meant at first (except the name does say it all)…and maybe YOU are wondering what it means too. I dunno???!!! Sooooo we are trying something new this year and we joined a commonwealth. I am beyond […]
I have “tried” to grow a garden for the past 8 years! I don’t have a natural green thumb, so every year I change things up to hopefully a better garden. I have had total bombs…minimal success…and maybe once or twice I actually had a great garden. Well this year I thought it was a […]
Our first day of school was actually awesome!!!! We woke up and I made breakfast (which is a treat by itself!)….coffee cake (one of their favs). The kids all got ready, we took 1st day pictures, we went over where everything was in their desks and what is expected of them and talked about what […]
My little school room got a small facelift this year…and I love it! The kids all got new desks! I have been waiting for Ryker to join us this year so that I could get these desks that would fit all 3 kids perfectly. I followed in the footsteps of Confessions of a Homeschooler (my […]
This year has been a little tricky figuring out the schedule for the kiddos. We have 2 big changes….1) Ryker is being added to our classroom and 2) we joined a commonwealth that will take our whole Wednesday, so we only 4 days of learning. I am hoping these schedules work out for us, but […]
That same night I put the baby chicks in with the big girls, havoc broke loose. I’m not quite sure what happened, but I had gone to a baseball game and wouldn’t be home until 11pm…way past dark. I knew the babies didn’t know what to do to get into the coop so I was […]
