Southeastern Raptor Center at Huntsville Botanical Garden
On Wednesday we attended a raptor show at the Huntsville Botanical Garden. It was put on by the Southeastern Raptor Center, a part of Auburn University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. The show was...
View Article“The Daffodils” by William Wordsworth
We visited one of my favorite places on earth mid-week: the Huntsville Botanical Garden. The garden was just waking up, but there was quite a lot of color already to be seen, and much of it came from...
View ArticleOdds & Ends: Cabin Fever Edition
It has been a long week here at the House of Hope. Due to the winter weather and north Alabama snow hsyteria, not one of our scheduled activities took place this week. NOT ONE. While I definitely...
View ArticleOdds & Ends: To Kill a Mockingbird Edition
I did not get around to reading To Kill a Mockingbird this month for the Reading to Know Bookclub. However, I did want to share a few pictures I took of TKM-related “stuff” when we took a field trip...
View ArticleAmerican Village field trip
A couple of weeks ago the kids and I rode down to Montevallo, Alabama, with Steady Eddie to visit the American Village. We had a great day (though it was bitterly cold and windy!) and want to return...
View ArticleOdds & Ends
The weeks are sure flying, aren’t they? We’re so busy nowadays that I blink twice and it’s Friday. Here are this week’s highlights: We spent Labor Day doing lessons in the morning, and then that...
View ArticleOdds & Ends
We’ve been back at our lessons now for about 3 weeks, but this is just our second week with what will be our actual schedule. On top of all that, Steady Eddie was out of town Monday through Thursday...
View ArticleGood eats on DI
While planning our Dauphin Island vacation, we determined that one way we’d keep the cost down was by planning our meals and eating at the beach house for most of them. We brought a crock pot and...
View ArticleOdds & Ends: To Kill a Mockingbird Edition
I did not get around to reading To Kill a Mockingbird this month for the Reading to Know Bookclub. However, I did want to share a few pictures I took of TKM-related “stuff” when we took a field trip...
View ArticleAmerican Village field trip
A couple of weeks ago the kids and I rode down to Montevallo, Alabama, with Steady Eddie to visit the American Village. We had a great day (though it was bitterly cold and windy!) and want to return...
View ArticleOdds & Ends
The weeks are sure flying, aren’t they? We’re so busy nowadays that I blink twice and it’s Friday. Here are this week’s highlights: We spent Labor Day doing lessons in the morning, and then that...
View ArticleOdds & Ends
We’ve been back at our lessons now for about 3 weeks, but this is just our second week with what will be our actual schedule. On top of all that, Steady Eddie was out of town Monday through Thursday...
View ArticleGood eats on DI
While planning our Dauphin Island vacation, we determined that one way we’d keep the cost down was by planning our meals and eating at the beach house for most of them. We brought a crock pot and...
View ArticleDavid Crockett Days 2014
We had our first field trip of the 2014-2015 school year on Friday, and we haven’t even started the year yet. ;-) David Crockett State Park in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, has an annual event called...
View ArticleBellingrath Gardens
One place my mother had on her “must see” list while we were in south Alabama was Bellingrath Gardens. My mother inherited a love for growing things from both her parents, and she inherited a love...
View ArticleAudubon Bird Sanctuary on Dauphin Island
One of the last things my little family did on our trip to Dauphin Island was visit the Audubon Bird Sanctuary. My parents, sister, and her boys had to leave Sunday morning for my younger nephew to...
View ArticleOn the beach
In addition to several evening beach visits, I spent a couple of days at the beach during the week we spent on Dauphin Island. My sister, a true beach bum, and the children all went a time or two more...
View ArticleDauphin Island Estuarium
We spent our second morning on the island at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab Estuarium. This was sort of spur-of-the-moment because where we really wanted to go was the beach, but the skies looked pretty...
View ArticleAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
I was prompted to pick up Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as a read-aloud because of the Alice’s Garden of Wonders event at the Huntsville Botanical Gardens. Of course we had to read it before we...
View ArticleAlabama Wildlife Center
Steady Eddie had a meeting in Pelham, Alabama, last week, so we all went along for the ride to visit the Alabama Wildlife Center at Oak Mountain State Park. It was a very last-minute trip (as in we...
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