Good Friday, Heroes! Today we are participating in our very first egg drop contest. Very exciting. The challenge is to create a container that can hold an egg and protect it from cracking in a fall. The Captain’s first idea involved tin foil and plastic wrap. 3 or 4 broken eggs later I told him, [...]

(Editor’s note: Today’s guest post is courtesy of Lloyd Burrell, who has suggestions for office space for children. Thanks, Lloyd!) In essence a home school office is a well-designed, but simple, workspace for the kids. This area can be small or large, but it has to be functional. That means even if its a room [...]

In typical September tradition, I’m here to tell you how we’re doing with homeschooling so far. The older boys are now in 7th grade, while the younger ones are in 3rd. We got delayed by my knee injury last winter so they didn’t finish 2nd and 6th grade work until well into August. We took [...]

Hullloooooo Internets! Have you missed me? Wait. Don’t answer that. I’ve been having a sick week, hence the big silence here. However! Things are improving! I only coughed out half a lung today, which convinces me that I’ll be completely better ummmmmm….soon. I hope. In the meantime, nothing’s better than a little humor and I [...]

Just yelled my head off and sent all the boys to their rooms. It started this morning when I was fetching dirty laundry and asked The Mercenary to bring any stray clothes down to my room so I could sort and wash them. (Note that I do all the washing, drying, and folding of clothes [...]

I’m writing this at 4:30 in the afternoon, with school just finished about ten minutes ago. The morning went beautifully. We all got up around 8, had some playtime and ate breakfast and started school a bit after 9. The younger boys were done by ten, and the older ones and I spent an hour [...]