“What’s the oldest building in the US that’s still around?” my oldest asked me as she was about to fall asleep. “I’m not sure I replied I’ll have to do some research but I’ll let you know.” “Could you please put it in my lunch for me?” she replied. I said “Sure.” So last night…
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My First Drop
I made my first drop this morning for The Toy Society. I found out about this group from a blog post over at Design Mom. The Toy Society started out as a street art project in Australia and has spread throughout the world. The idea behind the toy society is to create hand made toys…
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…
Reusable Lunch Bags
Traditionally in my house if food/lunch needs to be packed we grab the closest old, hopefully not ripped, plastic bag and toss the lunch in there. Either that or we use a, way too big, shopping bag for a sandwich and some chips. Looking around the web for a solution I came across some wonderful…
Lessons from LEGOs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/huladancer22/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 This weekend I finally convinced the girls to give up their large bin of LEGO Quatros. They donated that and ten other toys to Goodwill. So I decided to treat them and purchased them some regular small LEGOs. I went to the store looking for a plain old box of…
Homeschooling
So we are planning on homeschooling the girls and since S.I. would be in kindergarten this year I thought it best to start looking at kindergarten curriculums and seeing what it is that she would be learning in conventional school this year. I’m happy to see that some f the things she would be learning…
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…
Great science experiments!
When I was a kid my dad used to do science experiments with me and my sister after dinner. Usualy they were prompted by some quesiton that was asked during dinner. This site has lots of experiments like the ones we used to do. It’s a local news channel and their own “Mr. Wizzard”. http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/video/