Fire Station

The girls had a field trip today. It was to a fire station. Neither of them had been to one before. They learned all kinds of things. They started with a tour of the fire house. It included offices, a living room, kitchen, bedrooms, and a gym. They got to see all of those things. …

Parks

One thing that I seemed to have a hard time finding in New York, England, and even Texas was a group of other homeschooling families in our area. Thankfully, it was one of the first things I found here. I found a Facebook group that did park days. These park days have been great. They …

Back to School

When we moved back to the States, we moved into a 2 bedroom apartment. This means the girls are sharing a room. They like sharing a room and it makes some things easier. But N needs her own space sometimes. An alone place. So I decided to make her a little cardboard house for a …

Getting Organized

Lately I have been trying to get organised for N's next school year. The curriculum we are using gets significantly more involved than this past year was. It has been overwhelming. I am not sure I want to use some of the material for a couple of the subjects, so I have been trying to …

A Bit of School

N gets asked a lot if she is in school yet. At first she would look at me like, "What are they asking me, mom?" Now she says something like, "I do school at home." That's right, we homeschool. Why do we homeschool? Well, right now, a big part of it is that we knew …