Several months back Aidan started as a Cloverbud with a local homeschool 4H group. And last Sunday was our first fair–the International Fair. The fair consisted of a number of South Suburban 4H groups all presenting their work for the past year on a particular country of each group’s choice. Aidan’s group had chosen Egypt [...]
around the world in four hours
February 27th, 2010
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Tags: 4H · history · photos · socializing · world culture
fur trading and storytelling at isle a la cache
October 21st, 2009
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I’ve been so bad about writing lately. It’s not that I don’t want to, but it’s just we’ve been so busy that I just can’t keep up with recording all the happenings. But today I am going to try! :)
Last Friday we went to a very cool homeschool event at the Isle a la Cache [...]
Tags: classes · family fun · history · learning · museums · nature · photos
holiday road: days 1 and 2
June 21st, 2009
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We’ve been driving for a couple days now, taking our cross-country road trip out to the Southwest. It’s been fun heading west of the Mississippi, as I haven’t ventured that way before–not on the road anyway. We hit the trail hard our first day, shooting for Springfield, Missouri, nearly 8 hours from Chicago. We were [...]
Tags: family fun · history · road-schooling · science · vacation
