During her last weeks of school, Ane brought home a science project that they had started in class. The idea was for it to be a kind of homemade Chia pet – except that they used regular grass seed and a little dirt in plastic Easter egg set-up. Once the grass was long enough, they […]

The kids spent most of yesterday in our backyard. After Tad was home from school and I had gotten home from Bible study, I was starting to work on lunch when Tad called me. “Mama! Mama! Go outside? Go p’ay outside?” He was standing at our back door with his lightsaber in hand. “Sure, go […]

As a last-day-of-school gift, Ane’s teachers gave each child a disposable camera, with the instructions to take pictures of their summer so they could remember it always. Most of the kids blew through their cameras before they even left school that day. With great restraint and threats… mostly threats… I managed to get Ane out […]

This weekend kind of passed in a blur for us. We took a day trip on Saturday to the Webmaster’s hometown for his aunt’s graduation party. She walked on Friday with Centralia Community College, but had an open house party at her home on Saturday. We told Nana and Papa that we were coming, but […]