Eat the Frog

This was in the ditch at the farm, the state flower of Iowa, wild rose. Some days, finding beauty in the ditch is just the thing to...

Each year we let each kid choose an activity to do for the year. When I had more income and we lived in the city, they could do as many a...

Sometimes we have to get things done for the farm. This means hours and hours in the farm truck, hours of beautiful days that the kids lon...

Being a five year old was amazing and tough, eh Holly? Her goal for year six is to learn to climb a tree with no branches. Pretty simple....

This weekend was super jammed packed with all the things I wanted to do.....and Holly's ballet pictures. The r...

Today was Holly's traditional day out with Mama to see the ballet. She gets excited round about July and starts bugging me to orde...

In a special needs family the child with extra medical needs gets a lot of the attention. It is already a difficult task to balance each chi...

We homeschool. We unschool as a philosophical approach. For those who are unfamiliar with that term, it is like Montessori without the large...

So our week has been rainy. Lots of flash flooding, power flickers, and constant downpours with a side of mud. Grey, gloomy, wet and mucky. ...