Homeschool Fiction

With our Webkinz accounts, we’ve been doing the new Fairy Forest activities nearly once a day since it began (you have to own at least one real physical Webkinz figure for this feature to be unlocked).  Over the past two weeks, both of my daughters’ accounts have collected 15 silver keys.
We were able to trade [...]

Here is a current photograph of my medicine cabinet:

Contents include:

My husband’s prescription glasses
My husband’s saline and contact lens case
My husband’s pocket watch
Pocket knives (two kinds)
Multiple different kinds of tweezers (we live in the desert and like different tweezers for different cactus needles)
Tom’s of Maine deodorant
Hairbands (two kinds, one for me and one for my daughters)
Nail [...]

My family recently had the pleasure of going to Star Trek: The Exhibition at the Arizona Science Center in Phoenix.  This awesome traveling exhibit was fun for us since we’re all big Star Trek fans, although the promised shuttle simulation ride didn’t exist.  The website made it clear that photographs and cell phones were not [...]

The following photographs were taken at the Arizona Science Center in Phoenix, Arizona.

Located just west of Phoenix, right off of I-10 in the town of Litchfield Park, Arizona, is the Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium.  My local unschooling group went there on Wednesday, March 25th and had a blast.  As homeschoolers in a group, we were given the same privileges as a school group.  This benefit is [...]

As a surprise to our guests at our Super Star Trek party on February 1st, I took photographs of all of them who wanted their photo taken in front of a green screen.  Click here for “Fun with Green Screens PART ONE”.  Here are just a few more of the hundreds of fun photos we [...]

Today’s sunrise inspired me to take a few photographs.  Here is a sampling (click here for the first set from last year).

I’ve been spending the last several days with my daughters playing around with our green screened photographs from the photo shoots we’ve had recently.  Here are a couple fun pics of them in flowers (and we got even better ones of our friends!).  Happy Spring!

This past Pi Day, my family and I made nine pies: 3 Chicken-Less Pot Pies (one without the top crust), 2 Strawberry Cream Cheese (one with a traditional crust and one with a graham cracker crust), 1 Apple, 1 Cherry, 1 Peach, and 1 Chocolate Pudding (with chocolate cookie crust).  Here are a few photos: