If you were to sit down and start listing historical trades, you'd probably say farmer, blacksmith, and then sit for a few minutes, and come up with a tailor or maybe butcher. It fascinates me the number of trades that were common in "ye olde times" and were absolutely necessary … [Read more...]
Princess Diaries book club
Way back when I was recently graduated from college and was still in that magical time of life when you have all the free time in the world, the Princess Diaries movie came out. I went and saw it because that's what you do when you have endless free time. Then I found out there … [Read more...]
Hunger Games book club
Last year I decided to focus on speculative fiction for our assigned reading. One of the final books we read was Hunger Games. I planned out our books for the year over a year earlier, and as we read Hunger Games when the Quarantine was just starting and the kids were finding a … [Read more...]
Napoleonic wars history lesson
As we started our Napoleonic wars history lesson, I jokingly said, "It's all his fault we got World War 2." Then the kids looked at me like I was slightly crazy, and I thought, "Challenge accepted!" Then proceeded to gather up some legos, a map, and some vis a vis for our history … [Read more...]
Colonial games and pasttimes
Future Ticia 2020, I finally added in the last few Colonial games into this post. This is like the third time I've added more to this Colonial games post. Deep sigh, finally done. When you look back at Colonial America, one thing we think about is how their life is different … [Read more...]
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