Motherhood Blessings

Sunday, March 15, 2015

October 2014

During October we went apple picking at

a beautiful organic orchard owned by a

fellow homeschooling family. We went to

Gammelgarden museum in Scandia.

This was great because it tied in our local

history/geography and our next portion of

our curriculum. This is when I introduced Matthew

to the Norse myths. After the field trip

we really focused on these Norsemen.

We also took a beautiful field trip to Taylors Falls.

We had a guided tour of the pot holes and enjoyed

all the colors.

Tillie's hiding in these smaller pot holes.

We saved seeds from our garden this year.

And worked at our good friends land

for a community work day.

This involved getting the garden ready

for spring, helping them build their house,

and helping them make bricks. Very educational :)

the kids are collecting bean seeds from our green bean plants.

Halloween 2014 with our neighborhood buddies!

We also went to a play called Rainbow Crow at
the stepping stone theatre with our
homeschool co-op.
The kids absolutely LOVED it and I vowed to
do more plays this year!
Matthew turned 10 this month with maturity and grace.
I on the other hand was surprised to find him in the double digits?!

This pretty much sums up our October 2014

until next time

~blessings

September 2014

September was filled with fun.

We started getting our rhythm...

In addition to our Waldorf curriculum

I added extra math practice

with the Life of Fred series.

I also added practice with grammar

for Wesley and spelling for Matthew.

They are doing work in their workbooks

for this. Wesley's is Climbing your way to

good English. Matthew's is practical spelling.

I felt they were a little behind in these areas and

the extra practice wouldn't hurt. I am

still not sure how much I like to English workbooks,

but we definitely LOVE
Life of Fred!

We celebrated our school year by taking a field trip

to the Renaissance festive for homeschool day.

Knights and sword fighting!

Aunt Burp and Izzy came with us!!

The boys and Tillie slayed some dragons

Tillie saw real mermaids!

As for the sports

the boys finished up their first year of soccer!

Both of them had a great time.

Matthew's 3 on 3 hockey team were Champions!

With the Waldorf curriculum we started the year with local

geography and local history. Matthew studied our neighborhood and our town.

After looking at and creating maps we ventured out.

We took a history tour at the Wardens house.

This is run by the historical society. It was the BEST historical tour.

We all had a blast. I really love history, so my opinion is a bit slanted.

Seeing how peopled viewed slide shows in the late 1800's


Kids on the steps of the Warden's house

We had a very good month

meeting up with our homeschool co-op again

connecting with our friends. Just coming

back into our school days always exciting.

until next time

~blessings

New school year

We started out the 2014-2015 school year

like we do every year...

We take our family vacation to our

Canadian cabin.

It is a good way for us to transition from

summer into our structured school year.

When we come home everyone is ready for our studies.

Here are some of this years cabin highlights...

Everyone came this year.

It is so great for the cousins to be together.

My kids LOVE spending time with

their aunts and uncles as well.

All the cousins in Canada

Walking the road with everyone


Of course fishing is a highlight and on the new pontoon!

shooting practice


The boys got a boat of their own! BIG highlight.

This was another great trip...

and when we arrived back home

I had a

2 year old, 5 year old kindy

second grader and

a fourth grader!

until next time

~blessings

Thursday, October 2, 2014

More summertime recap

I must finish up our summertime recap!

Now that it is already FALL :)

No discussion of our summer 2014 would be complete without

sharing the story of our best duck...

yes, duck.

We spent so much time in the bog.

one day this beautiful hen followed the boys right out!

over time she was not only eating out of their hand

she was following them everywhere.

Always near.

She would play in the sand box with them

and sleep on the patio

pose for pictures with us

and even try (often)to come in the house!

Matthew even had to take his breakfast with him

outside to be with her continually or she would

really start quaking. It was so much fun.

the kids truly adored their wild pet.

then, we went on a little vacation to a friends cabin

and she was gone...

I'm not really sure what happened

She did however like to frequent our local pub

across the street.

So, who knows :)

Another, addition to our summer recap

has to be our annual trip with my mother.

this year we tried something new

We went to Ashland and Bayfield, WI.

We had a great time hiking state parks

sitting by lake superior and taking the ferry

to Madeline Island.

On our way we stopped in Hayward at the hall of fame.

My favorite place was Tom's Burnt Down on Madeline Island!

Once again we had a great time with grandma spike.

I would love to return to the area with Tom

it is really beautiful!

until next time

~blessings

Friday, July 25, 2014

Summer update

Here are some of our summertime

highlights...

We captured caterpillars,

raised them on milkweed.

Actually watched

as they changed into chrysalis

then butterfly.

Always amazing!

The boys finished up this years baseball.

We made our annual trip to wild mountain

waterpark

Of course it's berry season!

We went to Sam Kedem's for strawberries

and on nature hikes for

Black raspberries.

I think it is their favorite fruit :)

last, but not least
this has been the summer of the
BOG!!!!!

So, the water was really high this year.
In fact it is the highest anyone can remember.
40 years of neighbors can not believe it.
The water destroyed the newly expanded garden :(
But, it brought the kids a bounty of good times.