Homeschool Fiction

Here are a few recent photographs of my kids and a couple of our cats (we now have five).

Most times in life, we seem to flitter around making the most of what exists.  We appreciate the shapes and figures we see in the clouds.  We make animals out of the clouds that are floating around.  We appreciate the things we have in life whilst neglecting to appreciate the things we don’t have.
This is [...]

Three years ago, my family and I wanted to make a path around our land — something raked free of cholla and other cacti — where we could roam free in sandals without worry of stepping on something we didn’t really want to step on.  We spent several hours every evening for a couple of [...]

Trying to come up with Father’s Day crafts for my Girl Scout troop this year was quite a challenge!  We’ve been making crafty things together for nearly eight years and it seems like we’ve made everything there is to be made.  Then, I thought, it’s been a LOOOONG time since we’ve decorated t-shirts…  To do [...]

Our little kitten turned two last week.  Here are a few photographs that my daughter, Teagan, took of her.  I especially like the one of her yawning. 

Happy Two Years, Fiona!  Here are more blogs with photographs of this beautiful Tortico cat:
Happy One Year to Our Cat Fiona!
Who Put the Fiona Cat in the [...]

This tiled black & white photograph project is a perfect gift for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, or just any time you want to give a truly unique (yet inexpensive) present to someone you love.
Total time to make one: about 90 minutes, longer if it is your first one (less if you are doing a bunch [...]

I’ve really been enjoying the flowers this spring.  Here is a view from my dining room window (through the glass and screen) of the Santa Rita prickly pear blooming, plus a variety of photographs of other prickly pear blooms around my land.  I’ve also added a photo of my daughters with my mom and one [...]

All of theses photos were taken on my land in southern Arizona.

A week or so ago, my local Unschooling group had the opportunity to have Darleen from Forever Wild come and talk to our group. She met us at a local park and brought a rehabilitated barn owl named Elmira for us to meet.  Her talk was interesting and informative and the perfect thing for us [...]

One of the most wonderful benefits to the unschooling lifestyle is that the barriers of age are taken away.  My kids are equally likely to be friends with 2 year olds, their own age-mates, and 80 year olds.  My older daughter (age 12.5), in particular, gravitates toward those with like interests only and doesn’t even [...]