What a month! We started the month off driving back from our Rocky Mountain trip in Colorado. Throughout the month we also: tagged some butterflies, read some fun books about Egypt and Mozart, helped restore a prairie, watched circus tigers perform, and a lot more! I’m excited to be in this fall season, even though…
Category: Adventures
Every Day’s a Holiday- Celebrating 31 Days of October
How many holidays do you celebrate throughout the year? 8, 10, maybe 12? Did you know that there are holidays for every day of the year? In the past two weeks I’ve been doing some research online about holidays. I’ve come across some fun sites that list strange or unusual holidays that take place throughout…
Autumn Activities Wish List
It’s the first day of fall! We’ve had such a busy summer travelling to Canada and 14 states, besides the swimming, parks and other summer fun at home. I’m thankful for the past season, but I’m so excited to be entering fall. It’s such a beautiful time of the year with the leaves changing colors…
Our 10 Favorite Carschooling Resources & Activities
After spending 30 days traveling these past two months and clocking 72 hours in the car with my family, I’ve come to understand pretty well what it takes to achieve harmony and peace with my husband and kids while trapped in a tight space – at least most of the time anyway! I was a…
Travel Edition – August Unschooling Adventures
I shared with you my family’s August Unschooling Fun and Resources last Saturday, but I wanted to write a separate post about the trip we took at the end of August. We were gone ten nights. The first night we drove from our home near Chicago to Lincoln, Nebraska. My husband’s grandmother had been hospitalized…
Our August Unschooling Activities & Resources
Today we’re leaving Estes Park near Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado where we spent the last eight nights renting a house with Steve’s parents. We’ll be spending the night in Omaha, Nebraska and heading home tomorrow. It’s been an incredible trip, and I’m going to write a separate post about it in the next…
Finding Love on the Path to Greatness
Last week I had the honor to guest post on Lainie and Miro’s website Rasing Miro. I’ve been listening for about a year to this mother and son team who have been slow travelling for the past 8 years through Central and South America. They share lots of advice and inspiration about slow travelling, unschooling, global…
A Journey of 17,000 Miles – An Interview With Nancy Sathre-Vogel from Family on Bikes
Today, I’m so excited to bring you an amazing interview by a new friend, Nancy Sathre-Vogel from Family on Bikes. I first was introduced to Nancy when I ran across her blog in 2008. I spent hours and hours reading about her family’s journey on bikes from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina – a…
My Checklist for Signing the Kids Up for Classes
I’ve become inundated with catalogs -catalogs from the YMCA and surrounding towns. My e-mail is piling high with private classes offerings – circus classes, theater classes, co-op classes, and science and art classes. I have tons of newsletters from museums, nature centers, churches, libraries, arboretums, children’s museums that are all screaming at me to…
Our July Unschooling Resources and Activities
The first three weeks of July were exciting, adventurous and energizing. It’s not every month we get to take a three week road trip across the East Coast, visiting 8 states and two Canadian providences. You can read about our trip in my last post here. But for the last 9 days of the month…