The Spread of COVID-19: New facts in the Journal Science
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Vicki Meadows
- Mar 27
- 3 min
Soap and Viruses Adventure Pack: Learning with Zoey
As most of you know I have an extremely energic and curious 4-year-old named Zoey! Now that we are working from home and she is home with...
Vicki Meadows
- Mar 27
- 2 min
Kitchen Science: Bread making and Viruses
As you know, one of my favorite things to do with my daughter is teaching her lessons through cooking and baking, especially when it...
Vicki Meadows
- Mar 27
- 2 min
Kitchen Science: Sourdough Starter Day Six
Yay! You made it! Great job and we are almost there! Today we will give our starter one more feeding. Discard all but a third of the...
Vicki Meadows
- Mar 27
- 1 min
Kitchen Science: Sourdough Starter Day Five
Like a newborn baby, you now are probably getting to know your starters feeding schedule very well! Again, today we will feed twice....
Vicki Meadows
- Mar 27
- 1 min
Kitchen Science: Sourdough Starter Day Four
Things should be very exciting now. Start watching your starter throughout the day. What are you noticing? How do things smell? We write...
Vicki Meadows
- Mar 27
- 1 min
Kitchen Science: Sourdough Starter Day Three
Today things should be starting to pick up! You should be woken up to bubbles and even some movement. You may notice the starter crawling...
Vicki Meadows
- Mar 27
- 1 min
Kitchen Science: Sourdough Starter Day Two
Welcome to day two of your sourdough starter. Don’t be alarmed if today is uneventful. Sourdough starters are like children, they grow at...
Vicki Meadows
- Mar 27
- 2 min
Kitchen Science: Sourdough Starter Day One
One of my favorite things to do with my daughter is spend time with her in the kitchen. I love this for many reasons. My mom taught me...
Vicki Meadows
- Mar 27
- 1 min
Surviving COVID-19: Funny moments with Zoey!
Both my husband and I work full time and have been fortunate enough to still have our jobs during this time and the ability to work from...
Vicki Meadows
- Mar 27
- 1 min
Delivering food to military families
XplorStem co-founder, also my husband, Rob runs a non-profit called Produce for Patriots. A few years ago, Rob learned that many military...
Vicki Meadows
- Mar 27
- 2 min
The new normal in grocery shopping
Since we returned from GHC Texas, California has had a shelter in place order. We are encouraged to only leave the house for essential...
Vicki Meadows
- Mar 27
- 1 min
Renaming COVID-19: "The Covey"
As this current worldwide pandemic continues to unfold days seem to get more stressful by the hour. One of my biggest stresses was how to...
Vicki Meadows
- Mar 27
- 2 min
Wait, Did she just say that have toilet paper?!
Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, we were super busy getting ready for the GHC conferences. We were launching our first product and our...
Vicki Meadows
- Mar 27
- 1 min
Watch how soap destroys the Coronavirus
This video from the Protein Data Bank shows how soap interacts with the outer membrane of coronaviruses like COVID-19 and destroys them....
Vicki Meadows
- Mar 27
- 2 min
COVID-19 and Homeschooling
And suddenly we are faced with a new world. Covid-19 is here and many of us are finding ourselves at home trying to keep our family safe,...
Vicki Meadows
- Mar 27
- 1 min
Our first Great Homeschool Convention
We worked many long hours to get ready for our first Great Homeschool Convention in Fort Worth Texas. We were equipped with our US Navy...
Vicki Meadows
- Mar 27
- 1 min
Time for final product testing!
Great time today at home as my two girls worked together to do a final test run of our first product, Energy and Milk. My youngest, Aby...
Vicki Meadows
- Mar 27
- 1 min
Rose bowl float viewing!
Every since we moved to San Diego from Chicago, my husband Rob has told us how amazing the Rose Bowl floats are and that you can view...
Vicki Meadows
- Mar 27
- 1 min
Thanksgiving is just about a week away. Oh man, where did this year go?
Thanksgiving is just about a week away. Oh man, where did this year go? We are going to blink, and it's going to be Christmas. This ...