A few years ago Jeff was looking for a movie we could watch for Mother's Day. He picked Zookeeper's Wife, and we got about halfway through it before The Artist got overwhelmed with the darkness of the story and wasn't emotionally ready to see the light and hope buried under all … [Read more...]
Turkey Geography Unit
Turkey is a crossover country. There are elements of its culture that are very Asian/Middle-Eastern and there are elements of very European culture. We studied Turkey as part of our crazy push to complete all of Europe and be done with a continent. I regret that decision because … [Read more...]
Mortal Engines book club
This all started when I was looking for a book to give Superman for his birthday. Then I remembered Mortal Engines came out in the theaters and he wanted to see the movie, so inspiration hit. I gave him the first book in the Mortal Engines series, and a few other dystopians. This … [Read more...]
Netherlands Unit Study
For reasons related to my Dad having a friend from Holland, I somehow didn't realize Holland was a part of the Netherlands until I was definitely an adult. He would talk about his friend from Holland, and how such and such thing happened in Holland. Of course, there's also the … [Read more...]
Princess Bride book club
Inconceivable! Princess Bride is one of the most quoted movies in my house, and a great many other houses. It's also one of the rare movies, people don't know for sure if the book or the movie was created first because the movie is so incredibly perfect, that and it was the same … [Read more...]
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