• Family Fun,  homeschooling

    Community Clean Up & Earth Day Events

    The snow has melted early this year in Edmonton and surrounding areas, and with a blustery April upon us, the uncovered garbage of winter is swirling around the school yards, recreation areas and roadways.    A great activity that you can start when children are young is cleaning up your neighborhood and the places you visit. Grab a garbage bag and some gloves, visit a green space close by and clean up flyers, take out containers and plastics that are blown around. If you come across any bigger items like shopping carts, electronics and appliances or unsafe items, contact your city or municipality for removal (311 in YEG). There are…

  • homeschooling,  kids

    So what do we do all day?

    Well the first 6 weeks of homeschooling has flown by!  So far it has been about adjusting to schedule changes, organizing, searching for resources and ideas and wondering if this is really going to work out.  Guess what?  I think it will! A walk in the woods on a fall day I’m a work from home mom and my workload has doubled recently and I’ve also had to make the adjustment of going into the office twice a week.  My husband works Tuesday – Saturday, so I go into the office on Mondays while he’s home with the kids.  This gives him some great one on one time with them…