Picture by Spilled Milk Catering Today, is the birthday of John Montagu, an 18th century English nobleman. The story is that he was too busy to leave a game to eat, so he asked them to bring his meat between two pieces of bread. The sandwich was born. The origination of National Sandwich Day is [...]

The kids are sick of mummies, pyramids and pharaohs.  I guess there is only so much you can learn about Ancient Egypt before you are at information overload.  To be honest, I’m tired of the subject too! We could move along to the Babylonians, but the girls are begging for a unit study of France.  [...]

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My camera battery has been dead, so it’s been no pictures for the last few days.  In retrospect that’s a good thing, because we’ve just been doing reading and errands, nothing spectacular for blogging.  Picture by Egypt Web We have begun our journey into Egypt, specifically Ancient Egypt.  We are not using a pre-planned unit [...]

Missy has been begging for horse lessons since she was 6 years old.  Ever since she rode a pony at the pumpkin patch it has been love between her and these gentle creatures.  When she was given the opportunity to chose any activity, she chose horse riding. Missy riding her pony Rocky for the first [...]

We are using My Father’s World Exploring Countries and Cultures (ECC) as our spine for Geography.  After 5 weeks of initial Geography, we were ready to move on to other countries. This week our journey took us to Mexico, complete with luggage, passport and airline tickets! Our first task was to look up Mexico on [...]