Our family has an exciting goal of experiencing all 50 states together before the boys graduate from high school. We started this adventure (and welcomed other families to join us back in 2011 by using the tag #50statesbeforetheygraduate), and now… in 2019, we’re only one state away from achieving our goal! You can virtually visit […]
Castle Gwynn and the Tennessee Renaissance Festival
Each weekend during the merry month of May, the Tennessee Renaissance Festival takes place near a castle located along State Route 840 (between I-24 and I-65) just south of Nashville in Arrington, TN. It is the only Renaissance festival held on the grounds of a real castle residence in North America. A few homeschool families […]
Burgess Falls Tennessee and How Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood Came to Be {50-states}
Once upon a time a former-oilfield-man-gone-real-estate-agent and a former-engineer-gone-high-school-math-teacher lived in Knoxville, Tennessee. As I chased my corporate motherhood dreams and aspirations to return to an engineering career, we moved down to Houston, Texas, where I learned about how God can turn our biggest failures into His greatest successes. After I had settled down to […]
Christmas Wrap 2023
Another year down, ’23 in the book. What happened this year? Now let’s take a look! The start of the year is the best to begin. When the boys and their dad finished up at Bag End. (Bag End is the nickname for a tiny home we built for our sons who are going to […]
Homeschooling High School: Clepping for College Credit
Every season of homeschooling has its special moments and we have enjoyed all of them. As we launched our oldest into college this past year after 12 years of homeschooling, we were blessed with the reward of him starting his freshman year with multiple college credits. Without dual enrollment or correspondence courses, he entered his […]
Wrappin’ up the year 2021
Another year down, another year past — We’ll wrap it all up, and we’ll wrap it up fast. The first three months were a bit like a dream. On Valentine’s Day, David aged to fifteen With a pinball museum after a week full of snow. Then in March to convention our family did go. After […]
Wrappin’ it up: Christmas Wrap 2020
Twenty-twenty has been quite a year to remember. Let’s recount our adventures from January to December. Discovery Park, Winter Jam, and David’s Fourteen All came before the days of mask quarantine. We visited a museum full of machine pinballs And hopped all around to Tennessee waterfalls. We toured Old Stone Fort while COVID we did […]
Adding High school to Mission: Great Commission
If you’re new to our Mission: Great Commission Curriculum, this series takes families through a study of the entire world over a three-year period, with Mission: World Wonders exploring ancient to medieval history along with world cultures, religions, and missions, Mission: Faith Forgers providing an overview of church history in the midst of world history […]
The Thanksgiving Tree
For years, our family has built a “ThanksGiving Tree” out of sticks and paper leaves. Our family has come to treasure the act of counting our blessings as we fill our Thanks Giving Tree with leaves of thanks. And while it’s been one of our most treasured traditions during the month of November, I’ve been […]