Nature

Another month has flown by and our garden is getting a little ridiculous. Haha.  The aroma in our house is becoming more and more “earthy” and we have plants taking over everywhere.   We’re still really enjoying our garden, but I’d be lying if I said that I’m not looking forward to it warming up outside...Read More

(This is post #3 about our garden.  See #1 here and #2 here.)    When I was looking up information and ideas for our indoor garden, I ran across this book… Year-Round Salad Gardening by Peter Burke.  I checked it out from the library and read the whole book in a few days (which is...Read More

At the end of December, as I was thinking ahead to starting school again, I wrote this in my journal… December 29, 2019 “As I was organizing in the school room yesterday, I was just feeling so excited about what we are going to learn. Looking at all of the books on the shelves felt...Read More

Our science topic for this month is rocks.  We’ve gone on a couple of hikes since the weather has been nice and the kids stuffed their pockets and backpacks with rocks to add to their rock collections.   We’ve been having fun putting our rock collections to good use. We’ve been using them to build...Read More

This morning when I woke up, I decided that we would spend the morning at a nearby 55 acre garden.  So that’s what we did.  We were some of the first people there so we had it practically to ourselves for a little while.   The first thing we did was start out with prayer journaling. ...Read More

A couple of months before this Missouri trip, I had suggested to my mom that they get a kitten right before (or during) our trip so the grandkids could play with it. They are in need of a new cat anyway because their current cat is getting really old and everyone knows you can’t have...Read More