Nather Family

We've been trying out some meal delivery services, like Hello Fresh and then their cheaper version, Every Plate. This meatloaf was a big hit! We love having "Girls Night Out"s. This particular evening we hit up Crumbl Cookies and enjoyed our treats at a park. When I noticedt the girls were both in purple shirts, I kept with the theme. There was a stretch in August when the littles got really into playing school. Hollyn and Kylea were joint teachers with Kieran as their star pupil. They were a.m.a.z.i.n.g. Much better than my homeschool attempt. 😁😔 Kieran's "teachers" had him doing scientific experiments and writing it up in the "scientific method". There was reading and art and math... the whole shebang. One lovely Sunday we got out of the house for a coastal hike. Between my back arthritis and bad knee, and asmatic kids and whatnot, we didn't go terribly far. The we started off in good spirits, with Kieran even exclaiming this was the BEST d...

School finally started September 18th, after additional delays caused by the fires/smoke/air quality. The day before what was supposed to be the first day, I unerolled Hollyn and Kieran to homeschool them. After all the schedules finally came out I realized it just wouldn't be feasible for all 4 kids to do distance learning because they were ALL on a different schedule: Brennan and Asher have zoom meetings 2 days a week and all their classes and breaks start and end at different times, and then Hollyn and Kieran would have had classes FOUR days a week, for 6 hours a day, and they had different start and end times for everything as well - both from each other and the big boys. Ummm, when is a parent supposed to work? The reports I'm hearing is that the stay at home Moms say it's a full time gig keeping their kids on schedule. The working parents are too tired and overwhelmed to have time to report, I suspect. So, thus began our Homeschool adventure. Currently, I spend a few ...