It's funny how new ideas can occur by "accident". Today, the air conditioner repairmen were here installing our new unit/compressor. (Hooray for central air again!) In order to accomodate their work, we had to move the e…

We finally upgraded some of our bookcases after a trip to Lowe's. We've had 10+ year old dilapidated particleboard ones that were on their last leg or whatever bookcases have. It brought attention to my overabundant book…

After a recommendation from my friend Vicky P., the 6 of us went to the base theater last night to see Evan Almighty. If you haven't seen it yet, we would highly recommend it. It was the best movie I've seen in a long ti…

Today while his siblings were at camp, J4ds did some "copywork" on his own, Deep in the Hundred Acre Woods theme song from Piglets Big Movie by pausing the dvd:

If you live in Pensacola, FL please read this article entitled Library Funding in Jeopardy (depending on when you check it, you may have to scroll down or find it in Old News, a link on the left) or this letter to the ed…

J4ds' funny question of the day: "Mom, what animal makes soy milk?" And, on the topic of healthy foods, this is also funny: Wizard of Id comic from 7/22/07 We ended up subscribing to the local newspaper for a few mon…

I was waiting for someone to do this...It's a very creative and cute idea...Night at the Museum Unit Study

This evening, we attended a bbq party for Ben's co-workers. Ben wanted the kids to think of some questions they could ask his friends from work, especially a new friend, Amid, from the Israeli Aeromedical Institute and w…

J7ds was scrounging around in the cupboard looking for a snack. "Mom, where's the Pig Mutant"? "The what???" I asked...It turns out he was looking for Fig Newtons...

Possibly inspired by his cousin T. in CA, J12ds completed a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle he was working on. We found it at the library's used book store for $1. It is of a church in Ramseau, Germany. During our post-swim team…

Yesterday I was showing the kids the trailer video clip for the book Dangerous Book for Boys, see also below. It was part of my investigation to find more "screen-free" activities and avoid further "Mom, I'm bored" doldr…

This morning we were pleasantly surprised to see a great big photo of J4ds on the wall at church near his classroom. He happened to be wearing the same favorite "church" shirt today.

I was reading a magazine from the library and came across an article about kids and summer reading. It said that the number one reason kids don't read more is that they can't find books they want to read and need parents…

Today the 2 older J.'s went to the wet trainer as a Starbase Atlantis activity. (They were supposed to go out on a Coast Guard boat, but it rained with lightning this morning and that part was cancelled). In the wet trai…

Today we helped host a home swim meet at Corry Station, which if you know anything about swim meets you know it's a big production for the parents , like most kids' special event activities. It was unique because after t…

Crafts CD Curtain - We have two friends (the moms are Jo Ellen and Kellie) whose daughters have nice beaded curtains on their bedroom doors and J7ds has always wanted one. I had some old, mostly outdated cds and read ab…

Essay Contest Article - Here is an article, see page 3, about J9dd's recent essay contest entry in our base newspaper.

Niece's Wedding, Reception, Kayaking, and Flying Back to FL - I'm still in a bit of a mental fog after last night's red eye flight back to FL. Later on I'll try to update with photos and more details about the wedding, r…