Semiserious Chefs

It’s a beautiful, all-be-it rainy, early Thursday morning here in Anchorage. Yup, you hear and see correctly. Although we have put our property up for sale and have quit our job, “taking the leap” still only means you can go as far as circumstance will allow. And for now? That means we have not leapt […]

When we put the property up for sale early in the year, we almost had a sale, and were planning our trip, rip-roaring, ready to go. I’d been following some families on YouTube who RV Full-Time, and starting thinking about how and when we would have a chance to meet up with them in the […]

Six year old Nathan has had it in mind to become a firefighter for several years now, so I am going to run with it! As an Alaskan homeschooling family we have the ability to create our own learning plans and this year I decided to incorporate his dreams into his learning. I felt that […]

The goals of this unit are pretty straight forward. First it’s to better understand exactly what happens when a person calls 911, and how it leads to dispatching particular units and apparatus. Next it involves the practice of using walkie-talkies (an interesting skill to share the modern child!), and finally the inclusion of map skills […]

This unit has been pretty straight forward. The topic at hand isn’t particularly abstract, and the concepts aren’t complicated so we were able to move through them pretty quickly. As with the last unit, Bones, the rescue play was also very fun. The basic goals of this unit: Learn about the basic structure of our […]

If you are looking to teach your interested child (4th-9th grade perhaps, but suitable when adjusted for younger and certainly older) decent, in-depth, First Responder Skills, than you have come to the right place! Does this curriculum line-up offer a day-by-day detailed plan? No. Sorry. (Though not really.) This isn’t for the easy-generic-elementary-text-book-following kind of […]

As the first Science unit of the year, we were a bit slow at gaining momentum, and there was some evolving, but with only 7 units to cover the entire year there is plenty of time for each. I think it has turn out quite well. The subject matter is very straight forward and there […]

Since Nathan wants to be a fireman when he grows up I’ve been connecting with a couple of fireman on Face Book that also have CF. One of them, Rick Stevens in Texas, was more than gracious in sending Nathan a VERY special box. Watch the video below for the heart warming story:

June 2017 started off with a bang for us. Typically, there really isn’t much going on for most Alaskans’ Summers until Memorial Day weekend. It really is true that summer doesn’t start around here until the last weekend of May. The regularly accepted gardening rule is to ‘never put anything in the ground until Memorial […]

It may (or may not) surprise you that we are really rather recluse people. Other than the 14 doorbell rings daily for the drop-off and pick-up of our 7 daycare friends, we really don’t have anyone over, and don’t go to anyone else’s place very often at all. Of course, ^THAT^ may be why. Major […]