Earlier this summer, we spent the day at Fermilab National Laboratory with some friends enjoying their annual “Family Outdoor Fair.” It was good fun. We scooped for pond life, netted for prairie insects, took and examined soil samples, observed an amazing menagerie of raptors, tested a falconer’s tracking device, saw a collection of fossils, tried [...]
family fun and fermi
July 2nd, 2011
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Tags: animals · family fun · natural history · photos · science · socializing
rockin’ the inhome conference
March 29th, 2011
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Sometimes our fears get the best of us. But other times our desire to become more than we are today pushes us past those fears into risky territory–full of promise and peril. For adults this can be life shaking. For kids, it’s just growing up. This past weekend, Aidan who is 7 now showed us [...]
Tags: coming of age moment · earth scouts · family fun · InHome Conference · music · parenting · performance · socializing · video
around the world in four hours
February 27th, 2010
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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 [...]
Tags: 4H · history · photos · socializing · world culture
