well it has been a very long time, a year in fact. In that year, we have had a baby! So now we have to be the 5 Duncans on the Road. Our little daughter was a complete surprise. She is 7 years younger than our youngest and 9 years from our oldest. We thought we were finished, but God had other plans.
This post is to update my blog and give me something to do while I nurse. I get bored sitting with nothing to do, but it is totally different now then with my first daughter. 10 years worth of advancements, thank you Apple, and I am no longer bored and can feel connected to the world even when I am alone in a room with a hungry baby.
Next post will be about out upcoming trip!
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Friday, July 27, 2012
London Olympics
Ever wondered what you would do in London with the kids? Ever even thought about going to London with the kids?
The Olympics has inspired us to become intrigued with London and a trip there with the kids.
But, where do you begin to figure out what do and where to go with kids, if you have never been there before or live there?
Found a great website with the best 10 free things to do in London.
http://golondon.about.com/od/londonwithchildren/tp/FreeThingsLondonChildren.htm
I personally want to see Big Ben and Parliament, but only because of Chevy Chase and Family vacation.
The kids love the idea of going around saying they are on holiday rather than vacation.
Well, cherrio off to watch the opening ceremonies.
The Olympics has inspired us to become intrigued with London and a trip there with the kids.
But, where do you begin to figure out what do and where to go with kids, if you have never been there before or live there?
Found a great website with the best 10 free things to do in London.
http://golondon.about.com/od/londonwithchildren/tp/FreeThingsLondonChildren.htm
I personally want to see Big Ben and Parliament, but only because of Chevy Chase and Family vacation.
The kids love the idea of going around saying they are on holiday rather than vacation.
Well, cherrio off to watch the opening ceremonies.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
We did summer camp at home
In order to keep summer interesting, we decided to do summer camp at home. But what and how to do it?
In comes the Internet and Pinterest. Google search at home summer camps and tons of ideas come our way.
After reading and viewing some ideas, I decided a theme of "Space" be fun.
I liked the idea of keeping it simple and creative, while learning in the process. Being a homeschool family, we are always trying to squeeze learning into everything we do.
So, not putting pressure on ourselves to try to meet a daily agenda made it more fun. Then we could go at our own pace.
We had a rough schedule for everyday. Read a book, make a craft, watch a video and play some review trivia games. All of it about Space.
Threw a makeshift Bulletin Board together, requested books and movies from the library, bookmarked the best websites for Space Camp ideas and viola ready for our camp.
Here are some of the websites I used for ideas: http://m.parenting.com/article/summer-camp-at-home?page=0,2#bmb=1
http://www.thecraftyclassroom.com/ThemeSpaceCrafts.html
http://m.hubblesite.org/#_home
We looked at pictures from space. Which were super impressive. Check out the Nat geo website's photo gallery of the Hubble telescope http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/photogalleries/100424-hubble-telescope-20th-anniversary-pictures/
Plus, we found NASA has an app to view photos from space probes they have sending pictures back. Some of the Nebula pictures are amazing. We loved the pictures of Saturn and the panoramic landscape shot from Mars
We are excited for Aug 6 to see the new Mars rover,Curiosity, land.
We started by making the Hubble telescope, after we looked up information about it on the Internet. We read about its mission, it's launch, reason it was named Hubble an we saw pictures, both of it and from it.
Next, we started to read a book called "I Wonder Why Stars Twinkle?". We read a small portion of it over the next three days. After reading about the three types of galaxies, we decided to make a spiral galaxy.
Over the next few days, we made elliptical and irregular galaxies, hung the solar system from the ceiling, learned the phases of the moon, distances from the sun to each planet, drew our own aliens, made our own solar systems out of art supplies lying around, learned about stars, chalked our own stars from hottest to dwarf, ate an astronaut dinner, learned out the international space station, made an international space station, watched movies galore, viewed a ton of space photos, learned about launches and missions, weighted ourselves on other planets, ate black holes for breakfast, ate Milky Ways with lunch, talked about Dr. Who, made star cookies and read some great books from the Library.
Whew, that was a lot!
I think I may have learned more than the kids!
Great stuff!
Next week we start Animals, but will be closer to 3 weeks to finish.
Since there is so much, and I didn't do our Space weeks justice, I will try to post everyday during Animal unit study.
Maybe that way I can get everything covered.
In comes the Internet and Pinterest. Google search at home summer camps and tons of ideas come our way.
After reading and viewing some ideas, I decided a theme of "Space" be fun.
I liked the idea of keeping it simple and creative, while learning in the process. Being a homeschool family, we are always trying to squeeze learning into everything we do.
So, not putting pressure on ourselves to try to meet a daily agenda made it more fun. Then we could go at our own pace.
We had a rough schedule for everyday. Read a book, make a craft, watch a video and play some review trivia games. All of it about Space.
Threw a makeshift Bulletin Board together, requested books and movies from the library, bookmarked the best websites for Space Camp ideas and viola ready for our camp.
Here are some of the websites I used for ideas: http://m.parenting.com/article/summer-camp-at-home?page=0,2#bmb=1
http://www.thecraftyclassroom.com/ThemeSpaceCrafts.html
http://m.hubblesite.org/#_home
We looked at pictures from space. Which were super impressive. Check out the Nat geo website's photo gallery of the Hubble telescope http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/photogalleries/100424-hubble-telescope-20th-anniversary-pictures/
Plus, we found NASA has an app to view photos from space probes they have sending pictures back. Some of the Nebula pictures are amazing. We loved the pictures of Saturn and the panoramic landscape shot from Mars
We are excited for Aug 6 to see the new Mars rover,Curiosity, land.
We started by making the Hubble telescope, after we looked up information about it on the Internet. We read about its mission, it's launch, reason it was named Hubble an we saw pictures, both of it and from it.
Next, we started to read a book called "I Wonder Why Stars Twinkle?". We read a small portion of it over the next three days. After reading about the three types of galaxies, we decided to make a spiral galaxy.
Over the next few days, we made elliptical and irregular galaxies, hung the solar system from the ceiling, learned the phases of the moon, distances from the sun to each planet, drew our own aliens, made our own solar systems out of art supplies lying around, learned about stars, chalked our own stars from hottest to dwarf, ate an astronaut dinner, learned out the international space station, made an international space station, watched movies galore, viewed a ton of space photos, learned about launches and missions, weighted ourselves on other planets, ate black holes for breakfast, ate Milky Ways with lunch, talked about Dr. Who, made star cookies and read some great books from the Library.
Whew, that was a lot!
I think I may have learned more than the kids!
Great stuff!
Next week we start Animals, but will be closer to 3 weeks to finish.
Since there is so much, and I didn't do our Space weeks justice, I will try to post everyday during Animal unit study.
Maybe that way I can get everything covered.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Skyauction
Found this website and unleashed the beast! My parents found a trip they wanna go on and all they have to do is bid.
Honduras, which was never on their radar. Now they are intrigued and they are bring their friends and sweeping them into the fun of planning and going on a great vacation.
If you haven't looked at the site try it out. Good deals, but so read the fine print.
Honduras, which was never on their radar. Now they are intrigued and they are bring their friends and sweeping them into the fun of planning and going on a great vacation.
If you haven't looked at the site try it out. Good deals, but so read the fine print.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Medicine
Sometimes the best thing to have in the car is the medicine. That can be anything from Tylenol for a headache to Dramamine for carsickness. Oh now don't forget about medicine of the unconventional kind like music or a nook to keep the kids busy.
Somedays, you just gotta have the tunes to get you through.
Today, I was able to listen to my music while the kids played the Nook in the backseat. Together! They shared and cooperated. It was crazy.
Today's car ride was smooth and easy!
Somedays, you just gotta have the tunes to get you through.
Today, I was able to listen to my music while the kids played the Nook in the backseat. Together! They shared and cooperated. It was crazy.
Today's car ride was smooth and easy!
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
How about a car seat?
If you don't already have extra seats for all your cars you should. Today was the day it finally happened. We are always just moving the seats from one car to another. Well, we forgot to move them from hubby's car back to mine, so I was without a booster for My daughter today.
Noticing this 1 hr before I needed to be at the Girl Scout meeting did not help as it takes an hour to get there.
So, I bit the bullet and put My DD in the car without a booster and headed to Target 15 mins away and bought a new booster.
Now there is no more switching. Get however many seats you need for each car and just have them!
Noticing this 1 hr before I needed to be at the Girl Scout meeting did not help as it takes an hour to get there.
So, I bit the bullet and put My DD in the car without a booster and headed to Target 15 mins away and bought a new booster.
Now there is no more switching. Get however many seats you need for each car and just have them!
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Boy has it been awhile
The last trip we took was to Disney in Feb. While there my daughter was enrolled in classes offered by Disney. They were very educational and fun and one of the coolest things was being in the park before it opened.
We meet up with my brother and his family and my parents. It was fun. I just wish we would have had more time together. We couldn't go as long as everyone else because of my husband's job. What's worse is the kids got sick middle of the week. I got sick on the ride home.
The week after we got back we headed to Great Wolf Lodge for 2 nights. That was a lot of fun, and my husband and daughter practiced surfing skills. It was cold moving from one water activity to the next.
If you are a germ-a-phob, then I would not recommend the Lodge. So much spit and snot floating in the pool. You know people have to be peeing in it too!!!
Krispy Kreme's on the way home and we ate at The Cheese Shop in Williamsburg. I was a happy camper!
We have no big plans on the horizon.
We want to do another cruise, take the kids to Europe and hit the cabins in TN again. BUT, for now no plans.
We tend to be more spontaneous lately.
We meet up with my brother and his family and my parents. It was fun. I just wish we would have had more time together. We couldn't go as long as everyone else because of my husband's job. What's worse is the kids got sick middle of the week. I got sick on the ride home.
The week after we got back we headed to Great Wolf Lodge for 2 nights. That was a lot of fun, and my husband and daughter practiced surfing skills. It was cold moving from one water activity to the next.
If you are a germ-a-phob, then I would not recommend the Lodge. So much spit and snot floating in the pool. You know people have to be peeing in it too!!!
Krispy Kreme's on the way home and we ate at The Cheese Shop in Williamsburg. I was a happy camper!
We have no big plans on the horizon.
We want to do another cruise, take the kids to Europe and hit the cabins in TN again. BUT, for now no plans.
We tend to be more spontaneous lately.
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