[ad name=”Above Content”] As a family we definitely have a more unschooling bend to us and my husband and I are really free form with the girls education. That being said our girls LOVE workbooks and so do we. I attribute this to the fact that no one has ever told them that workbooks aren’t…
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Getting Corny – Corn Husk Dolls
[ad name=”Above Content”] At our CSA’s harvest festival over the weekend I was a volunteer and I was tasked with helping both children and disabled adults create corn husk dolls. I had a blast. These dolls are very simple to make and my friend and I assisted in the making of around 150 dolls….
Ghoulish Garlands
The girls and I decided to make some Halloween decorations. Their current obsession with vampires led them to create some crazy vampire families, good and evil, to hang around the house. While they were doing that I grabbed some great printable garlands online from Paper Crave and The Long Thread. Continue Reading ….
Foraging for Wild Edibles
About a year and a half ago we moved into our new house, a 70’s contemporary on 1.25 acres. We have lots of trees, a large rocky hill and even a yard. This past year we realized that we also have wild edibles. Last summer we enjoyed the wild wine berries that were growing and…
Hiring a Nanny
Photo courtesy of sylvar via CC A few years ago we had just had our second child and my husband/stay at home dad had just decided to re-enter the workforce so that we could get buy a house. With that we were at a loss for childcare and needed to find someone to watch the…
Busy Bees
Ev’s 1st Birthday!Originally uploaded by NoisyArmadillos We were at a first birthday party the other day and we were all but attacked by bees. They were all over the place. The kids were scared and one even had a bee land on his face. All of us parents did the best we could to keep…
Geocaching, fun for the whole family!
A rusted out tractor deteriorated to barely recognizable parts, crossing a stream on large stepping stones, climbing a steep embankment, these are things we’ve seen or done recently while participating in a new hobby as a family, geocaching. For those who don’t know geocaching is a sport/hobby/activity in which you use a GPS device to…