Once Upon a Family

It has been raining, a lot.  Monday night we had a meeting in town and it poured so hard we could hardly see to drive.  On the way home the ...

A local church, the one we go to for AWANA, had dinner and a movie last night.  Dinner was pizza, can't go wrong there, and the movie w...

We are studying the senses in our homeschool co-op and I just happen to be the teacher for those chapters.  Today, while I was getting the c...

Spark made a pair of unmatching mittens.  I was a helper and had a few other kids to help so I wasn't able to help him cut his out etc....

We drew out a big diagram of the ocean zones today and I wanted to try the new anti glare lens we got for the camera so there is pictures.  ...

Still plenty of snow in the woods, but now that it has been rained on it is more like a glacier than snow. A quarter mile hill, our calv...

Excited that the days are going to be longer into the evening we celebrated by spending the day geocaching.  Geocaching in the winter means ...

When we were at the pharmacy the other day there was this flower in a plastic display box.  The flower was all closed up and when you pushe...

The last few days we have not really done anything "blog worthy" but I will make a quick list so that we remember this week as we ...

First, pull out some tools and dissect it. There are some pretty cool pieces in there.

Spark did his poster like a newspaper.  Parents went around and the kids talked about their posters. There were ten kids and two pick...

This afternoon we felt the effects of a local, small business closing their doors first hand. We have not had a toilet that has flushed wi...

The movie Coraline is creepy to me, but these cookies are cute! Just make your regular peanut butter cookie recipe, Dancer used the recip...

I know it is fun for at least ages 3 to 46 because I made a batch of it when Dancer was about 3 and one of us is 46 now and we have all had ...

The kids and I got home from town this afternoon and realized that the it was a little chilly in the house.  I ran down to see if the furnac...

The spelt flour in these gives these cookies a bit of a nice grainy flavor.  You can change the recipe by changing the ratio of regular flou...