The twins and I have been doing the unit study that came free from Homeschool Movie Club on Facebook to go along with Dolphin Tale (you can find this free curriculum at www.homeschoolmovieclub.com). We saw the movie during its opening in theaters back in September, but I didn’t want to do the study right then [...]

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I brought out the Pocketful of Penguins unit study that I got from Teacher Book Bag at Currclick, and printed it out since Fiona has been so excited about her penguin named Felix. It has activities for younger kids (preschool) and older (K-3), so I used some of them for Emma and some for the [...]

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Mother’s Day was kind of strange this year. My mom had just had a knee replacement three days before. One of my sons and my husband had left the day before for a (possible 3 month) stint in South Carolina. Gary went for a job. Patrick went for a vacation. Patrick knew that it would [...]

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