Homeschool Penguin Unit Study

Lyndsay Stradtner2014-08-10T21:31:44-05:00August 10th, 2014|Homeschool, Uncategorized|

Our homeschool year runs from January to September, so while everyone else is gearing up to head back to school, we are in the home stretch and gearing up for a nice long break! One thing we did this year was have Taryn (3rd grade) and Jude (1st grade) keep what we call a “Curious Journal”. I purchased them from Lakeshore Learning and it’s a place for them to write and draw and keep track of all the things they are curious about. It’s been really interesting to see what they write and what they want to learn. It helps me to know what direction to head in when we […]

10 on Tuesday

Lyndsay Stradtner2014-08-05T21:51:35-05:00August 5th, 2014|My Family|

1. The last month plus has been totally crazy….let’s see if I can catch up a bit here.

2. Ty left for camp and was gone for a month. He had an AMAZING time. He spent a month with 73 guys, diving in to God’s word, focused on the transition to manhood in a Godly way. They camped, they swam, they learned CPR, they learned how to do vehicle maintenance, household maintenance, daily physical training, how to manage their finances and so much more. He came home different. More mature. Focused, calm (for him!), patient, respectful and more careful with his words. This camp did amazing things for him and I’m so proud of him. We missed him like crazy while […]

Homemade Remineralizing Immune Boosting Tooth Paste

Lyndsay Stradtner2014-07-08T07:34:53-05:00July 8th, 2014|My Family, Recipes|

In an effort to save money I started making my own toothpaste a few months ago. With 6 people in this house, we can easily go through 6+ tubes a month. At $4+ each for natural, fluoride free toothpaste, it definitely adds up. Who wants to spend $288 a year on toothpaste?! Not this girl! Plus keeping track of who likes what flavor stresses me out. And honestly, even with the fluoride free stuff, I didn’t love the ingredients of store bought tooth paste. I put off making my own for a long time but I totally regret that because it is SO EASY. Less than 5 minutes and you are done. I wrote out the recipe and my kids […]

catching up

Lyndsay Stradtner2014-06-11T17:50:11-05:00June 11th, 2014|My Family|

The last few weeks have been overwhelming. Mid-may, we went on an amazing camping trip and were lucky enough for my mom to come along. We made so many wonderful memories and even captured a few. The day after my mom went back to Alabama, my step dad got sick. Within a day, he was pretty sick and in the hospital. He wasn’t responsive, but rebounded after the first day in PICU and we all had hope he’d be fine and the plan was for him to go to rehab upon discharge. But then he took a turn for the worse. His blood pressure was low, he had a high fever, pnemonia and was septic. The infection was […]

in memory

Lyndsay Stradtner2014-06-02T22:58:36-05:00June 2nd, 2014|My Family|

With a heavy heart, I have to share that my step dad, Larry Lee, has passed away. It’s been a long hard road since his spinal cord injury 15 years ago.

I met him as a little girl, he’d take my mom out dancing. He’d let me and my friends ride in the back of his truck down to the corner store where he’d buy us country lemonades and a kit kat. My mom followed her heart and we left Oregon and moved to live with him in Louisiana when I was 12. My grandmother loved his accent and thought he hung the moon. He adored her and her Maine accent right back. Larry […]

Our Camping Trip

Lyndsay Stradtner2014-05-21T15:18:02-05:00May 21st, 2014|Jonah, Jude, Maggie, My Family, Taryn, Ty|

My best memories growing up in Oregon revolve around going camping as a child with my dad, and also, my grandparents. I love everything about it. So when my mom suggested that instead of our usual girls trip to New Orleans over memorial day, we hunt for a cabin in the woods and take the whole family camping instead, I jumped on it. It’s hard for our family of six to travel. We had to give it up for awhile as when we’d travel after Jude’s vaccine injury, he’d regress, have demyelination and various chemical sensitivity reactions. We’ve tried a few small trips within driving distance in the last year and he’s done amazingly well. We haven’t taken the whole […]