Where Kids Can Be Kids...
Over the years, our homeschool groups morning activity would be handwork projects. Beginning with finger knitting when they were about 5, moving into simple knitting such as bean bags, flute cases and knitted farm animals (my son loved making the sheep), then more complicated projects as they were 8 and 9. Learning to crotchet, embroider, [...]
We enjoyed the perfect fall outing this season. Something we had never done before. We picked chestnuts. Actually, we picked them off the ground, as we were not allowed to pick from the trees. There were tons on the ground [...]
In December, my family makes batches and batches of cookies.
Goblins to Gingerbread. We don’t waste any time around here. You see, originally we were going to enter the kids creations into the Ritz Carlton Gingerbread House Contest in Half Moon Bay as we did last year. However. As the mamas sat on the sofa (and chairs and carpet) discussing the ins-and-outs and logistics of [...]
The month of October is consumed with Halloween for us. As you can see, our playroom is converted into a haunted dining room, (or dungeon, or maze of tricks, or…) and the seniors spend the month planning, writing a story, creating costumes and props and just generally having a ghoulish good time. Here the teens [...]