Blueberries, Bees & Boys

Next we adventured out to Heidelberg Castle (in route to Frankfort). This is one of my favorite German Castles. It is about 2 hours from Stuttgart. The Castle has a rich history though out the ages. Construction started on it in the 1300's. It had been expanded and a center for the local area until it was destroyed  by the French Army in 1689, after the war with the French. In 1764 what was left of the castle caught fire when it was struck by lightning, leaving it in ruins. In the 1883 preservation and partial rebuilding efforts were begun. Today it is partially in ruins, some has been rebuilt. It is a wonderful place to visit. Heidelberg Castle A part of the castle that has been restored A part that is still burned out. We read the book Castle Life, by Struan Reid. It has great information about the parts of old castles.  So it was fun to be able to see some of those parts come to life. These were not chimneys... they were the old potties. They ...

Our next adventure was to the Kurt Kromer Quarry . My oldest JD, love dinosaurs, this was a dream come true. This place allows you to chisel out fossils. We all had a great time hunting for the fossils. You just have to pay a small fie and you can dig as long as you like. You also get to keep whatever you find. We now have buckets of fossils. We bought our own hammers, but you can also rent a chisel and hammer there. This one of the fossils we found. JJ breaking apart the slate. JD taking apart a big piece of rock.   More digging fun...

We have been so busy that last couple weeks. My mom and cousin came for a 2 week visit. So we got to do some exploring in the Stuttgart area. We found some really fun places. So I will be sharing them the next couple weeks.  Me and my mom.  We started by exploring our downtown Stuttgart area. We went down there on the October 3rd. That is a German holiday "unity day". This day is a national holiday celebrating the reunification of East and West Germany after the cold war.  Landesmuseum Wüttemberg    We were just walking around and the happened across the Landesmuseum Wüttemberg. We were able to get into the museum for free. It had some interesting information about the history of the area around Stuttgart. There is a collection of artifacts, some from before the Roman times. It has labels in both English and German. It was fun start to the visit. Click here for the museum website. Neues Schloss Stuttgart   ...

Hi, my name is Beverly.  I am a stay at home mom of two bo ys. I am so lucky that I get to homeschool. JD is 10(top of picture), and JJ is 8(bottom of picture).  With my husband Jeremiah, we live in Stuttgart, Germany.   Today is our three year anniversary of living overseas.  I wanted to start this blog to be an  encouragement to homeschool families all over the world, and just share my failures and triumphs, and our adventure as we all explore together. How we started homeschooling... We started this adventure when my oldest was in 1st grade. My husband got a chance to come to Germany for 4 months for work. We decided to pull JD our of school and finish the year homeschooling so we could go with Dad.  My youngest would be started kindergarten the following year. He saw his brother doing school and decided he wanted too do school also. So I jumped in with both boys, not having clue as to what i was d...