I finally got Carter though his 2 year hungry, growth spurt! Yipee, right? It seems Skye has caught it.
She asked about breakfast before bed, then again at 6am. She is my hungry, growing girl!
It’s been a month since we started time4learning for Carter, 6. I always had the site in my bookmarks when considering what we should do with our homeschooling. In the past, we’ve done Five in a Row, Unit Studies, and a mish mash of whatever was working at the time.
But I was finding what I put into planning (hours of work), was not what I was getting out of it.
My son struggles with phonics, as do I. I was concerned that we couldn’t find a program that worked for him. With in a day of using time4learning, he was reading sentences! I love that the program uses a combination of sight words and phonics to make learning fun! I love that I can change his level if I feel it’s too challenging. Or in the case of Language arts, I started him in K and found it too easy, it was simple to bump him up!
Yesterday, was one month. I thought the decision to continue on would be hard at first, but it was not! We are learning and we have more time together for playing together!
Now, this is just my opinion and what is currently working for my family! If you do want to give it a try, please be sure to mention that I referred you 
There is a two week, money back guarantee! Thanks so much!!
she hums. just like me, always a song in her head. she hums while working, hums while walking, hums while eating…
Skye is also an expert snapper. I will try to post a video this week….
I”m sure that I’m not the only blogger who has become completely disenchanted with their blog upon finding facebook right? It’s fun to share my pictures there where they can JUST be seen by family and friends.
So, what does this mean for the future of my blog? I have no idea, but I’m not ditching it yet! I really only ever considered it a place to share my simple kind of life with those who care. So, are there those who care that are not on facebook? I don’t think so….
Summer is over! Carter declared it a good summer! And it truly was! One where we were blessed with wonderful friendships and many adventures!
Inspired I create our own Summer Fun List!
Lots of bike riding
Working at the Community Garden 
Swimming
Northville 4th of July parade
Picnics
Blow up Pool in backyard
Sparklers
Free Movies on Mondays @ Civic Center Library
Plymouth concerts
Farmington concerts
Tunes on Tuesday Northville
Farmer’s markets
Water Park
Garage sales
Plymouth Spray Park
Redford Spray Park
Nature Hikes
Summer reading program though Livonia
Fire in our new fire pit outside with marshmallows
VBS (need to find one fast!)
Toledo Zoo (been on my to do list for 4 yrs, it’s happening this year!)
Lots of Village trips
Air Zoo Museum (free till September!)
Make milk shakes
Freeze and can the summers bounty
Family Game Night
Slip and Slide
Make Stepping Stones
See fireworks
Howell nature center
Play in sprinkler
Real camping
Cottage trips
Lots of BBQ
Livonia Spree
Ice Age 3 when it gets cheap.
= done!
First t-ball practice
First hike with camelbacks
First (official) haircut
First time tie dieing my himself
First time swim suit shopping!
Wow, we’ve been busy lately. Honestly, I always thought people were crazy to claim to be too busy. But we’ve made it!
I’m not going to bore you with all the details of what we’ve been up to. But I do want to put a plug in for google calender! I love that I can add my events to it and so can Paul. We each have our own color so we can easily see what the other is doing! Plus, it stores what I’ve done. So it’s a sort of time capsule as well! If I wonder, when was the last time we went to Farmington library? I can just look it up!
Here is our spring nature table
Egg Hunt at Great Grandma’s
Carter and Skye with their (most of) their cousins (we added another 2nd cousin to the mix this week! plus one more in Flordia. All MY cousins kids)
Kids went skating last week. We had a blast!
We had a visit with my Grandma
Auntie turned 25!
Did some geocaching
Had a great visit with Kazoo Grandmas!
Happy Easter
Finally today, we met some friends up at HFM for more bunny fun!
We had the great honor of being invited to the Battel families sugarbush in the thumb yesterday. What a wonderful day! It’s such a treasure to have the kids be even more connect to the food we eat and see where it comes from. We’ve done the metroparks sugarbush in the past, but nothing beats going to a real sugarbush farm. They did such a nice job of educating both the homeschool kids AND their parents.
The syrup, is like golden drops of sun. Amazing!
After being very sick for 5 days I called a friend to come over and take a look at Carter. She suggested we take him to the doctor. (I’m so bad at making such decisions) I called our family doc, but she was gone for the day at 1pm. I made an appointment for the next day, early, but I didn’t want to wait. See, I try to treat things at home first. With common sense, rest, nutritious foods, herbal medicines, but there is sometimes, that despite my son’s request, I can’t be the doctor.
So, I thought we’d try CVS’s minute clinic. I love that you can see exactly everything they treat and the price (for those not insured) on their site.
When we got there, there was no one else waiting in the small corner of the store. After a quick computerized self registration, we were brought into a small room.
There a very nice and friendly NP did a full check out of Carter. Very gentle, very nice, she took her time. No hurry, no rush, no other sick people around. It was SO easy!
Then she just sent our prescriptions to the pharmacy (our choice) and a note to our family doc’s office and we were on our way.
A few days later, Carter received a hand written post card and a sticker from the NP, thanking him for being a great patient and hoping he felt better!
They WANTED us there, it was different and rather nice!
I won’t go there for everything…but in the right situation it’s the perfect fit!
http://www.minuteclinic.com/en/USA/
