Our plan for the month? Story revision: monkey-see, monkey-do style. I just finished an incredibly helpful class on novel revision with au...

Yep. We're totally and completely suckered in by these creatures. Our other rat, Pepper, was lonely... she told us she needed a new com...

Sunburst and I are just now finishing up the study on Ancient Persia. I've notoriously fallen behind on my own schedule. C'est la ...

We lost a rat the other day. Sunburst was pretty heartbroken about it. All the kids were. Me, too. I'm not sure what happened, but I ...

Sunburst received this as a birthday gift from the neighbors, and they recommended it as a great read aloud. Boy were they right! I have n...

Moonshine has been knitting since she was four. The ability came on suddenly after a stomach virus . Stranger things have happened. Since ...

Pancakes and strawberries have always been a must for Valentine's Day. In the past I have actually poured them on the skillet into hear...

I've been very sporadic about mentioning birthdays on the blog through the last few years. I don't have any good reasons for that.....

Oh, Hello!! Are you still here after my long absence? Thanks so much for waiting. We just returned home from a WONDERFUL three weeks back i...

It's beginning to look a lot like Advent. There are candles aglow.... The nature table has been covered in rocks magically transformed....

We did it! Our household wrote a cumulative... 132,876 words ... in November. That's a lot of words. Whew!

I spent all week working on my novel. Doesn't it sound like fun? It was actually the opposite of fun. It was a hard week, but I think...

This is my favorite Nanowrimo video so far. It cracked me up. I can't wait to show it to the kids. They will LOVE it! If you still do...

Our Rääbeliechtli (turnip lanterns) turned out fine, just in time for a lantern walk in the pouring rain on Saturday. We managed to learn f...

picture from www.sengers.ch I just received the songs we'll be singing at the lantern walk tomorrow night. God help me. They are all i...

I don't think we've ever done a more enjoyable block. We loved everything about India, especially the rich stories. We could have ...