Some people say that the chore of “Cleaning the House” seems to be one of those “two-camp” things. There’s that one camp that LOVES cleaning and does it all the time, and then there’s that second camp that hates it and cleans only when absolutely necessary for safety. Which camp
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It looks like at least one of our foster chicks is a girl!!! Did you know that a pretty accurate way to tell when they are still so tiny is by their wing feathers as they start to come in? All around the same length feathers/gradual change in length mean

I just love a great art project, don’t you? And this one is so much fun for kids of all ages! It can be adapted to be very simplistic for young children, but it can also be adapted for older, more artistically experienced students, too! Even adults have fun with

Throwback to that one time (last week) that I went to the feed store to buy more chicken feed in the middle of all my other errands that day. Without thinking, as I was at the checkout stand, I asked the cashier if she could please add a bale of

Oh my goodness!!! We are fostering some baby chicks until they’re fully feathered and ready to be outside on their home farm, and they just arrived!!! They’re sooo cute!!! The adorable little “peeps” and the sweet fluttering of tiny wings…it melts my heart! We kept them in the little cardboard

Comfort food. It is literally named for what it does for us. Are there other things to turn to for comfort? Of course! In fact, there are many! But today, we will only be talking about this one. Isn’t it funny how the words “comfort food” are deciphered differently, depending

Joy of joys! The day your backyard chickens begin laying eggs is certainly a day to celebrate! And it is the first of many days that all start out like Easter; with an egg hunt. But read on to learn how to minimize the craziness, so you can get on

For anyone who has known our family for a long time, you know our first “baby” wasn’t a human, but a tiny little teacup chihuahua who weighed less than 4 pounds. Her name was Ruby. She lived to be almost 16 years old. She was quite possibly the sweetest, most

No matter where each of us is on our homeschool journey, something we all have in common is that there are times in our lives that are just hard. Like, flat-out, no getting out of it, seriously difficult. The difficulty can come for a variety of reasons…happy, sad, or indifferent.

Oh coffee…my preferred beverage for almost all times of the day. Yes, I know there are other beverages available, but none that make me as happy as coffee. I know, I know…I am aware of how silly this may sound to non-coffee drinkers, but please bear with me. Part of