When you're at home there are just so many distractions, a show you're itching to catch up on, emails to check, video games to conquer, feeds to scroll through. It gets to be a lot, too much. So sometimes we need a bit of a detox. We actually went on a little road trip for Valentine's day and it was really wonderful. AJ had some business in the Northwoods of Wisconsin so we ...
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Kiwi Crate – Arcade
Aliceana is obsessed with building, she's always drawing blueprints for her new inventions. A few of her inventions that I remember off hand, the computer that will give you anything you want, just ask, and you shall receive. Next up is the automatic hairbrush, it brushes your hair so you can do important things, like eat. She's always asking if we can build crazy things, I ...
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Aliceana is great at reading and spelling when she's in the mood, which is hardly never. It's a hurdle that I've been trying to deal with when it comes to unschooling. So I try to make things fun. Some days we'll use sight word flash cards and copy the words onto a dry erase board, because to a 5 year old dry erase boards are pretty magical. Some days we'll read an entire book ...
LEGOs the gift that keeps on giving
This Christmas we're all about the LEGOs. We bought Aliceana a ton of LEGO sets from the LEGO Friends house that she wanted to a really cool Minecraft set and some in between (like a puppy day care and cupcake store.) We love these playsets because Aliceana is obsessed with building projects, but AJ and I are terrible at building most things. I also love that they'll last ...
Educational Fieldtrip ideas for Homeschool
We love going on trips, whether it's to a local city or further away we always look for some fun family field trips where we can learn in a fun environment. These are some of our favorite places to learn. The best part is enjoying these places on weekdays when they're not crowded, just an added perk of homeschooling and working from home. I definitely recommend checking out the ...
DIY Window Clings
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #allessentials #allsulfatefree #CollectiveBias We love feeding birds and watching them all over our yard. We have a handful of bird feeders in our yard that attract a lot of beautiful songbirds, but the problem is we see too many birds fly into our windows. The solution ...
Bell Museum of Natural History – Minneapolis, Minnesota
We're visiting the twin cities this week, we're staying at the Hyatt Place in Downtown Saint Paul, and it's amazing, we booked the room for a steal on Expedia. and our very first stop was the Bell Museum of Natural History in Minneapolis, Minnesota. First of all, this museum is right in the middle of the University of Michigan campus, actually it's a part of the campus, as in, ...
A book series for every young scientist. Science Wide Open
Science was always the subject in school I dreaded the most, ok second most, I'm looking at you math.. Now that I'm all grown up, I wish I had realized that science is actually ridiculously awesome. I'm actually in a Geology course right now and it's a whole lot of fun, a lot of work, but it's so worth it. I might even be procrastinating on my homework to write this article, so ...
Why your kids need these Star Wars workbooks
Workbooks are normally really dull, we tried a couple different books with Aliceana and she wasn't into it. Then a long time ago in a galaxy far far away...or you know, Costco...we found the Star Wars workbooks. When you're learning with Star Wars everything just clicks, at least when you're a 4 year old that's obsessed with wookies and that one part where R2 falls down a ...
DIY Crate printer and office storage
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #CreateWithHP #CollectiveBias I recently moved my computer and desk upstairs to the living room. It just made sense to turn a corner of our living room into a functional area, because it's much easier to access than our office in the dungeon. Now I can simultaneously work ...
My First Science Textbook
Call me weird, but I'm the most proud of our parenting when Aliceana does things like adds a verse to "Wheels on the bus" about the noises the zombie makes when chasing after it, when the internet guy comes to our house and she tells us he has "Hair like Han Solo" or when we go to the museum and she sees a mummy and immediately tells us it's the bad guy from the train in that ...