academy at thousand oaks

January 27 While cleaning out the pantry, I found an unsealed tub of rice. I decided to make it into a Valentine's Day Sensory Tub. I ad...

January 26 I locked the door of the homeschool room because he had lost his computer privileges today. When I came downstairs, I found this ...

January 25 Today, Tornado came home from school with this picture in his backpack. At the bottom of the page, it read To: (his name) From: ...

January 24 Another aspect of our busy "school" year is MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers). This was my first year to join this organiz...

January 23 Tornado is always drawing pictures and setting up what he calls "art galleries" around the house.

January 22 I just wrote about our "blooming tea" on my vegan blog .

January 21 Tornado, eating his second supper of the night, and watching World Girl with his little brother This picture a day thing is hard...

January 20 Look what it did today. Look who was happy to be a homeschooler today.

The girls got groomed today! (I wish they would leave the ribbons in their hair all of the time.) This is the before shot. Poor things could...

What a sweet face, right? How could this sweet face be capable of wreaking such havoc on the first day of the Thinking Skills class I taug...

Sissy and her blankie

January 16 SOMEHOW I've managed to complete about 10 pages the past week or so. Another one of my New Year's Resolutions is to scrap...

January 13 My dad used to make these amazing igloos for us when we were growing up. But that was Missouri, and this is Arkansas (less snow, ...

On the road trip home from New York, we made a few stops in Virginia (including the Booker T. Washington National Monument and Home ). We ...

If it looks like this is just a mess, I assure you that every piece of Play-Doh was very strategically and methodically placed, blended, and...