A typical day outside...

The best thing about homeschooling is our ability to spend more time doing other things besides sitting at the kitchen table. Trevor's lessons take roughly 1.5 hours to complete, never more than that and sometimes less. Rachael spends about 10-15 minutes tops doing anything seated.

The rest of their time is spent either doing extra curricular activities like playgroup, gymnastics, etc. They also spend lots of time either galloping around the house, building blanket tents, playing with toys or games, reading books or being read to. They spend some time tidying their toys, putting their clothes away or doing other basic chores (or whining about doing the chores).

With the nicer weather we have been spending more time outside, which is wonderful! It lends to the house staying neater, and nothing wears out kids like fresh air. Today I grabbed the camera and took some pictures. For those who don't know, we live in a townhome with a small backyard and a big common area with woods and grass out back. We have trails leading all over the area and a small totlot in the woods. The kids like the totlot, but they REALLY like the huge sticks in the woods.


The kids' idea of a squirrel feeder. I don't know what the logs are at the one end. The box is from the new screen door Ray installed. They colored it with crayons and put oats on the far end of the box.


Trevor putting out a pile of various nuts and things I gave him for the squirrels. He has dried figs, raw almonds, peanuts and rolled oats.


Ariel with neighs, sticks and snot. Ariel has been sick with a runny nose and a brief but high fever. So excuse the runny nose. She has sticks for the squirrel feeder. Sticks have also made bridges, survivorman shelters and various pretend fires.


The girls hiding out under what I think is a holly bush.


Practicing up for next winter's sledding. I think I have the only kids who sled in the off season. Yes. They sled down the hill in the dirt. It works, too. Won't work for me, but they seem to go pretty decently.


WOOHOOOOOOO!!!!