Foto Friday

What Food Summer Learning Theme wouldn’t be complete without a tour of potato chip factory?  Don’t answer that. It was like our very own live version of How It’s Made.  Highlights included eating chips fresh out of the fryer and 1/2 price bags from the Oops! Section.

Name that tomato!

All of our tomatoes this year are volunteer.  That just means they grew out of the compost we spread throughout our garden.  We didn’t buy a single tomato seed or plant this year.  As they sprouted like weeds all over our garden, we transplanted the heartier ones to our tomato patch.  The fun part with […]

Bowling

Did you know Kids Bowl Free all summer?  I know, kind of late to clue you in now.  I had conveniently forgotten about it because we tried a couple times last year and they were times I would rather forget.  Me and three kids (one a toddler who had to be strapped to my back) […]

Priceless

Black fabric dots………9 Free value meals……..4 Dalmation costume that doubled as a cow……$50. Photographic evidence……priceless In case your wondering, we’ve scored well over $100 in free food by dressing up as cows for last 3 years.

Just a reminder…

…almost exactly 5 months ago it was 70 degrees colder with 20 inches of snow on the ground. Am I the only one that is constantly fascinated that we live in a world where there are such swings in temperature and climate in one place?  On the other hand, God put us on a planet […]

Beach Bums

When I wake up and it’s already 90, I wish we were here. Building sandcastles. But we’re not. Probably Thursday. Today we’ll be responsible and return library books and go grocery shopping. Have drums.  Will play. I just wish they all sounded as quiet as these.

The Fourth {verse}

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war’s desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: “In God […]