One of our favorite places to visit is the Milwaukee Art Museum. They have such a great collection and we always find something new to enjoy, and we always have to stop at our favorite pieces. If you're looking for something new and interesting find a security guard, they're incredibly helpful and they make our trips so much more fun. We've found several hidden places that ...
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Unplugged Roadtrip – Reconnecting on the road
When you're at home there are just so many distractions, a show you're itching to catch up on, emails to check, video games to conquer, feeds to scroll through. It gets to be a lot, too much. So sometimes we need a bit of a detox. We actually went on a little road trip for Valentine's day and it was really wonderful. AJ had some business in the Northwoods of Wisconsin so we ...
Kiwi Crate – Arcade
Aliceana is obsessed with building, she's always drawing blueprints for her new inventions. A few of her inventions that I remember off hand, the computer that will give you anything you want, just ask, and you shall receive. Next up is the automatic hairbrush, it brushes your hair so you can do important things, like eat. She's always asking if we can build crazy things, I ...
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Aliceana is great at reading and spelling when she's in the mood, which is hardly never. It's a hurdle that I've been trying to deal with when it comes to unschooling. So I try to make things fun. Some days we'll use sight word flash cards and copy the words onto a dry erase board, because to a 5 year old dry erase boards are pretty magical. Some days we'll read an entire book ...
LEGOs the gift that keeps on giving
This Christmas we're all about the LEGOs. We bought Aliceana a ton of LEGO sets from the LEGO Friends house that she wanted to a really cool Minecraft set and some in between (like a puppy day care and cupcake store.) We love these playsets because Aliceana is obsessed with building projects, but AJ and I are terrible at building most things. I also love that they'll last ...
Educational Fieldtrip ideas for Homeschool
We love going on trips, whether it's to a local city or further away we always look for some fun family field trips where we can learn in a fun environment. These are some of our favorite places to learn. The best part is enjoying these places on weekdays when they're not crowded, just an added perk of homeschooling and working from home. I definitely recommend checking out the ...
How to create the perfect weekly college schedule for online classes
I'm back in college, this is actually my 3rd semester back, but I don't talk about it often. It seems taboo like nobody cares when you're 27 and you're working your butt off to go back to school while juggling family life and work. It's a lot to handle, this past month I've been stressing so much wondering what my workload would be like for 3 classes instead of 2 and 1 of the ...
Random Acts of Cardness – DIY Greeting Card Canvas Art
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #CelebrateAllSummer #CollectiveBias Aliceana just started playing tee ball this Summer, and we're so proud of how great she's doing. Ok, her running could use a lot of practice, but that's most likely my fault (running is my kryptonite.) Mostly we're impressed with ...
DIY Yarn Cat Toys
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #CatsloveNutrish #CollectiveBias My whole life I've been a dog person, but as I sit on the couch with a cat on either side of me, I'm thinking I'm a cat person too. I'm always looking for new cat toys and Princess loves toys on strings, and we all know cats love ...
DIY Window Clings
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #allessentials #allsulfatefree #CollectiveBias We love feeding birds and watching them all over our yard. We have a handful of bird feeders in our yard that attract a lot of beautiful songbirds, but the problem is we see too many birds fly into our windows. The solution was ...
Why does my preschooler need to learn how to code? and the toys that make it fun.
STEM has been a buzz word on every top toy list for the last couple years, and this year the science, technology, engineering and math toys have definitely gone in the direction of coding this year. This brings up two good questions for parents of preschoolers when shopping in these categories. Why should I teach my preschooler to code? Are these toys really teaching them ...