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shifting my focus at the museum of science and industry

January 22nd, 2010
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Today, the family and I took what seems to be our quarterly trip to the Museum of Science and Industry. It’s always a lot of fun. Aidan really gets into it and seems to learn a lot each time we go. Today we spent most of our time in the new “You”exhibit, and complimented that [...]

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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 [...]

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exploring the field museum of natural history

February 7th, 2009
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We took advantage of the Friday free day at the Chicago Field Museum yesterday. What a cool place! Aidan loved the “Underground Adventure” exhibit where we were magically shrunk one hundred times smaller than our actual size in order to explore life beneath the soil. What fun! We also took in everyone’s favorites–the “Evolving Planet” [...]

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