Have you heard about this idea for gift giving to your kids? It was an idea that I saw floating around in our homeschooling community Christmas before last and it was new to me. The idea is that you give your kid(s) four gifts al ...

For the first time ever since we moved here in 2000 we were able to get a direct, non-stop flight from Los Angeles to Copenhagen when we went back to see our family this summer. Courtesy of Norwegian's new route LAX-CPH reducing ...

Once a year, I write a little recap about our homeschooling year. We have been homeschooling for two and a half years now and we seem to have hit our groove. You can read about why we chose homeschooling in the middle of 4th grad ...

We just got back from a gorgeous four day trip to El Capitan Canyon. It's just north of Santa Barbara, CA. We stayed in this cabin above, in the middle of nature. It was awesome. On Monday we saw several deer. Here B is pass ...

Who is ready for some fluffy polar bear butt? And let's throw the rest of the animal kingdom in there. Well some of them. I am not gonna lie, I am pretty excited about the images I got on our trip to the Zoo in Copenhagen when ...

Remember this summer when I did some Trend spotting in new construction - California 2013 and some more here. That was fun. Let's try that again, but let's go back in time. Waaaaay back. To the 1800s - with some 1700 hundreds th ...

Welcome to the second part of my two part series of our recent trip to Denmark where we visited friends and family and went on a bunch of field trips. Yesterday I shared field trip 1-8, today I am concluding our traveling log w ...

B and I left for our trip to Denmark on August the 20th and arrived the next day on the 21st. We stayed until September 18th, making our trip almost a month long. When I won second place in the Frogtape contest in July, there w ...

Yesterday, I shared some field trip we did in Denmark during our first month of homeschooling 5th grade. Read about it here. Here is the link to Homeschooling with Netflix Group  When I joined a couple of months ago there we ...

I am taking a little break today and tomorrow from housie stuff to document what we did for fifth grade. You may know that we took B out of 4th grade at his brick and mortar school a year and a half ago. I wrote a two part series ...

New to Shift Ctrl Art? Welcome! At the top of the page I have links to a tour of our home, a page with all the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) projects we have done. You can also find favorite posts, recipes, artwork and much more. Want to ...

Are you familiar with the whole Ryan Gosling "Hey Girl." meme? It's been going around. It's rampant on Facebook and Pinterest. And in the homeschooling community. You see, he famously said that he was homeschooled and then it kin ...

Now that we are homeschooling - first anniversary coming up in about a month - there are certain activities that we miss from school. Yes there are a couple. One of them is making gingerbread houses for Christmas. So I thought: ...

Yesterday, I shared a little bit about why we chose to homeschool, our essentials and what we are doing for math. Today, I would like to share our plans for the rest of the subjects: Science, Social Studies, PE, Language Arts, an ...

This morning I decided that I would post a little bit about a new adventure that we have taken on: Homeschooling! Interesting word, right? It conjures up pictures right away! Why homeschool? I can only speak for our family as t ...