Homeschool Fiction

Today marks the anniversary of the birth of my oldest child.  Zoë is officially 13 as of 8:35AM Iowa time!

It’s true, she’s been hesitant about this birthday.  She has loved her parties over the years, but she has always been unexcited about the prospect of actually being a year older (and thirteen feels particularly significant).  [...]

Every three months, the Whipple Observatory’s visitor center hosts a “Star Party”.  Since we can see this observatory from our house, we’ve been wanting to go there for some time.  When I first looked into it, my youngest was younger than 6. Since they don’t allow those younger than 6 to go to the observatory [...]

We’ve all heard the horror stories of lost data from computers.  It may have even happened to you.  Losing the data on your computer systems can be tragic.  Don’t let this happen to you!
Here is what my family does for our multitude of computers:

UPS - Uninterruptible Power Supply … to protect against power spikes.
Backup onto [...]

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

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Here is Teagan’s Room Makeover - PART ONE (this contains the “before” photos).
Teagan (my 8 year old daughter) finally has her room completely done!  We removed 1/2 a closet, painted the whole room, installed new flooring (Thanks, Dad!), put in a bunkbed, built a loft (Thanks, Greg!), and did many more exciting touches (like a [...]

My youngest daughter’s room has basically been a toy and clothing repository for the past several years.  Before that, since we believe in a family bed, she never had a room of her own.  Now that she’s 8, she’s ready for a full super cool room of her own.  So…  here are a few before [...]

Think vegans can’t have an old fashioned taffy pull?  Think again!  My daughters have been asking to make taffy for quite some time.  Since their grandparents were due for a visit, we planned our taffy making desires around their stay.  While not completely successful, we had a lot of fun making the taffy.
We used the [...]

My kids love making letters and numbers with their bodies.  To use their number photographs in an extra fun way, we decided to make collage clocks using 12″ blank clock faces from ClockParts.com.  The parts are great and the directions are fantastic — full of lots of neat ideas!
Here is how we made ours:

We picked [...]