Week 26: Wrapping Up the Winter Olympics

Do you ever have one of those weeks where you feel like you haven’t accomplished a whole lot, but when you actually look back, you’re really surprised at how much you actually DID accomplish?  That was what it was like for us this week.  As I uploaded the pictures I took throughout the week, I [...]

Week 25: Going for Gold

The Winter Olympics started last week.  Our family has always enjoyed the Winter Olympics because we’re fans of ice hockey, and we like the “extreme sports” like snowboarding.  Since this is the first Olympics that the boys can understand (somewhat), I thought it might be fun to do a unit study on the 2010 Winter [...]

BURN, by Ted Dekker & Erin Healy

I really wanted to like BURN.  The cover looks super-cool, the blurb on the dust jacket sounded interesting, and it’s Ted Dekker; you just can’t go wrong…right? A couple of years ago I would have given this book a 5-star rating simply because it had Ted Dekker’s name on it.  And let’s face it, there [...]

Week 24: Titusville, Beatles Rockband, and Dinosaurs

So our trip to Titusville was a bust.    Let me start at the beginning: We drove up to Orlando on Saturday.  Our first stop was the Lego store in Downtown Disney.  The boys had no idea where we were going, so it was a nice surprise for them when we walked up to the [...]

Week 23: Six More Weeks of Winter

I planned our lessons this week around the fact that I had Jury Duty on Friday. The odds of me getting out of it were slim, as my pool number was rather low. Jury Duty was CANCELED!! That’s three-in-a-row I’ve managed to escape.  (lol)  That meant that Scott would be the ‘substitute teacher’.  So I [...]