Homeschooling

Jackson and I celebrated my 41st birthday at the zoo together - scoping out the desert, visiting our friends at the Jungle, and saying Hi to my favorite little critters - the Harvest Mice! We topped it all off with a new movie at the IMAX - Backyard Wildlife. It was a gorgeous, wintry day with snow

A trip to our local pumpkin patch to celebrate Autumn and hunt for "Fall Finds" was rainy and cold, but we managed to have fun anyway. Sliding, bouncing, tipping, and rolling.... We walked the spooky trail, jumped in the corn pit, and spent most of our time at the Petting Zoo. Afterwards, our obsess

My husband has been bringing home rescued frogs from the plant where he works for several weeks now. He brings them home in a little plastic jar, and then my son obsesses over where to put them. In, out, in, out. In the jar. Outside in a habitat he's built. In a puddle that the rain water has made.

This book. It was just too much fun. We selected all the fall books we wanted to hunt for at the library (waiting patiently for a few to come back in), and then read, and reread them, as we studied the changing seasons. My favorite was this one, by Lois Ehlert, entitled Leaf Man. In it, she tells th

We had tea time today at our National Wildlife Park, so we could enjoy the color changes this Autumn. And while they were few, and far between, it was still a magical time. We foraged for native grasses and medicinal plants we could identify and study in our nature journal when we got home - all wit

This little phrase (there's even an Instagram Page with the same name) tumbles through my head often these days. Scientific research continues to prove our fast-paced, busy-worshipping society is making us miserable. One of my favorite outcomes from our search for slower living has been my 8-yr-old'

This weekend, our local Wildlife Refuge offered monarch butterfly tagging, as part of the nationwide effort to develop a clearer understanding of how monarchs make such a tremendous migration every year to Mexico. There was a very well done presentation that included the reasons monarch populations