September 2020

Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum!

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Before the winter and potential further lockdowns strike, we took a fieldtrip to Walnut Grove, Minnesota to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum. It. Was. Awesome. There were exhibits and buildings that were closed because of the covid, but it was still so fun to walk around and see what we could. The kids and I […]

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Juggling Read Alouds with Multiple Kids

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I’m happy to be a BookShark Ambassador. I received this year’s history curriculum free of charge in exchange for honest reviews. All opinions are my own. At home we’ve got an 11, 10, 7, 5, and 2 year old, plus a baby.  While the kids love read aloud time, it’s gotten to be stressful to manage everyone’s […]

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In a House!

After just over two months of house-less-ness, we are in a home. We rotated between staying with my parents and David’s parents with a brief stopover with my college roommate’s family. We are overwhelmed at the generosity of our hosts. We are a big, noisy, messy bunch, and no one kicked us out. We observed […]