As part of our schooling the first week of this new 2017-2018 year, the students at Sweet Pea Academy have been learning about our Neighbors to the North: Canada. We've done a timeline of the nation's history, completed map work,... Read more →

On July 7th, Team Odette headed out to a new locale, set up as a playdate for Sophia with one of her new friends from a local homeschoolers' group. We visited Lucky Peak Reservoir, also known as Barclay Bay. This... Read more →

Hello, fellow thieves! Link up here if you're playing along today! ~*~*~*~*~ Sunday Stealing: Firsts First Job: I worked as a cashier at Big M Supermarket on State Fair Blvd in Baldwinsville, New York. I LOVED that job, and my... Read more →

On Monday, Team Odette was invited into Young Art for a 60-minute drawing lesson, complimentary of Young Art in Boise, Idaho, and the fun and amazing manager, Shayla Putnam. [Full Disclosure: Our five-member family received the lesson for no charge,... Read more →

Welcome back, those of you here from By Claudya's weekly carnival, Sundays in my City. I haven't been posting in a while, and now we've moved from Miami, Florida, to Boise, Idaho. Big leap of faith and huge culture shock,... Read more →

Way back on March 20th, before Jack's 14th birthday, Team Odette was invited to visit The World Center for Birds of Prey in order to learn about the important work being done by The Peregrine Fund. I feel absolutely awful... Read more →

Hey y'all! Link up here if you're playing along today, too! ~*~*~*~*~ Sunday Stealing: The Kathy Aay Questions 1. What is the meaning of your blog’s name? That picture was found when I Google Image-searched for my blog's name. Too... Read more →

Based off this picture and this blog post here by Miss Mancy, I decided to give the kidoodles a fun and maybe easier art project today. First, I instructed the kids to take turns tracing the hands and shod feet... Read more →

This next project I want to showcase will have us caught up on Art for now, though the girls are working on another one that I'm hoping they'll finish by the weekend. If you're anything like my girls, you spend... Read more →

Hi again, y'all. The next Art project I'm going to showcase is a little more mathematical, the Paper Polyhedron. I wanted Jack to participate in this one, much to his chagrin, partly because I felt like he could use the... Read more →

Another Art project we did at the end of August/beginning of September this school year: the 3D Hand. You can see lots more examples of this project here. We have a ton of high-lighter markers. Where did they all come... Read more →

Hey there, folks. Link up here if you're playing along today! Cheers to all of us thieves!!! How Are Ya Today Meme Stolen from: Love me some surveys ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Okay, here we go. How are ya today? This was me... Read more →

Stealing today? Link up here to join the rest of us! *~*~*~*~~ The 2015 Year End Meme From the archives! * What did you do in 2015 that you’d never done before? In October, when we went up to Missouri... Read more →

I had the children write a Summer Bucket List for this past break, and one of the items on their list was to visit the animal shelter and donate some food to the kitties and poochies. Well, we visited the... Read more →

On Tuesday, we used a Living Social voucher to go visit the nearby Everglades Outpost Wildlife Refuge for a school field trip. We had the place nearly to ourselves, and Jenny was happy to give us an insider's tour to... Read more →

Link up here with 5 Minutes for Mom if you were any degree of wordless, uh, yesterday! ;) (Oops, I didn't get a chance to finish the post yesterday. Forgive me.) Last week, we went on a field trip overnight... Read more →

Link up here if you're playing along this weekend! Saturday 9: Harper Valley PTA (1968) Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here. 1) This week's featured artist uses her middle initial (C. for Carolyn) all the time. Do you... Read more →

♫ "Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower went up where the homeless had their homes..." ♫ Oh, hi, there! Sorry, I guess a little Jewel needed to bust out of me instead of what I meant to write.... Read more →

Look at me, fragmentin' three weeks in a row! Link up with Mrs. 4444 here if you have to brain-dump today, too. ☼ Welp, Hubs has been hospitalized yet again, this time for surgery to remove an abscess that grew... Read more →

I'm back again! What is this, two weeks in a row? Can you stand it? I know! Link up here if you're fragmenting today! ☼ Silly as it may seem, this might just be my favorite thing from our field... Read more →