Once Upon a Family

  We are at the beach on a week day because we are homeschoolers and we can.  I'm no James Dean but, I love any chance I get to be ...

 When we pulled up to the beach tonight this is what we saw.  Upon getting closer, we realized that they were out there doing yoga on pa...

When Dancer was born I decided that I just couldn't leave her at a daycare and let someone else have fun with her all day while I was w...

Spark, the lone swimmer We had the entire beach to ourselves. No one even on the lake. Dancer didn't sw...

Dancer went to a beach birthday party so Spark and I moved further down the beach and had our own party.  It was a perfect day, th...

While the kids were swimming in the heated pool at Grandma's I was huddled under a towel.  The kids didn't want to get out because ...

Last year at swimming lesson during homeschool gym at the YMCA, Spark was unable to pass his level because of rhythmic breathing.  We decide...

Our 4-H year end party was this afternoon.  We were at a lake cabin thankfully since the temps were in the 90's and the humidity was in ...

Dancer had her first day as a 4-H day camp counselor.  Two of her best friends are also camp counselors so she is really excited about it.  ...

We took the kids into town tonight to swim at the beach.  There were probably about 15-20 people in the water splashing around and being rea...

At Grandma's there is a pool that the kids took full advantage of.  Both of our kids float like corks.  Spark can even put his hands be...

All weekend the kids begged to go swimming....at the beach.  It defies common sense to go swimming yet, the ice has barely been off the lake...