Today was a day to stay in because tomorrow will be a crazy long day.  We had snowman donuts for breakfast.   We had a regul...

  Today the thermometer reached 70 degrees and both kids are reading books with zoo animals in them, so we took a trip to the zoo!  Our z...

 We just wrapped up a study of Grandma Moses.  We didn't do many projects since we were busy with Christmas and New Year activities, ...

My word this year is peace, but first I want to talk about war.  Five years ago today Jay left for deployment.  Every year after Christmas h...

 Today we took our first road trip in the new car .     We went to the science museum and Alice was...

  Last night we did our traditional New Year's Eve bags.   Both kids were excited about opening them!  We started at 4:00 with ...

I've always liked to read, b ut this i s the first ye ar I've kept a list of all the books I read--n ot including picture books...