Do Life Right

A degree, a simple piece of paper. It’s a declaration to the world that the bearer of said paper officially “Now Knows Enough”. Woo-Hoo! Party Time!
But, do you? Does that little piece of paper really mean you know enough? Enough for what? To be successful? To be happy? [...]

There are a variety of reasons why parents choose to homeschool their children and I think I’ve heard them all. The reasons for being on this path ultimately don’t matter, but the implementation definitely does.
Over the past 9+ years that I’ve been researching homeschooling, I’ve discovered there are similar qualities in the families that [...]

My youngest daughter just had a Parent Trap movie fest, so I have the clever “Let’s get together” song in my head as I write this blog post. We could have a real good ti-ime.

Do you know what your words mean? Pima.
I live in Pima County, Arizona. In researching [...]

This post is about compromise.
In most aspects of my life, I’m a great compromiser. While I figure out plans for art and craft projects, I’m quite flexible on how they are actually implemented. I’m the same on cleaning, driving routes, and a wide variety of other things in my life - especially with [...]

I’ve been enjoying making pillows since I was twelve and received my first sewing machine. I’ve recently shared my love of pillow making with my Girl Scout troops. We made simple 4 square checkered pillows. My 7.5 year old daughter loved it so much, she made one completely by herself the next [...]

Here are the photographs first, then the directions. These photographs are a year old and don’t show the full extent of our dyeing, but they’ll give you an idea of what the possibilities are.

I first got the great idea of dyeing fabric with Sharpie markers from one of my favorite kid’s science catalogs, Steve [...]

Sounds ominous, doesn’t it?
Earlier this year I stashed away the three Webkinz Lil’ Frogs (Regular Frog, Bull Frog, and Tree Frog) for myself. I decided to go ahead and adopt them today as I’d finally come up with names for them and I’d finally prepared a room for them in [...]

Announcing the Wright on Time Book Series!
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The Wright family is taking off on an adventure of a lifetime. Living in an RV for two years, this homeschooling family is determined to make the most of their travels and have fun exploring the world together. Eleven year old Nadia and seven year old Aidan, make a [...]

We’ve been getting in the habit of photographing our various Webkinz in unusual places. Here are a few recent snapshots. See our Webkinz Bengal Tiger in my recent Madera Canyon blog post.

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My daughter needed dragon eggs. Since dragons are rare and difficult to find, combined with the fact that we’re vegan and try never to use animal products (especially the babies of a species), we’ve been working on creating our own magically made up ones. Here’s how we did it:

Get a large plastic Easter [...]