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October 3, 2012October 2, 2012

Our September Unschooling Activities & Resources

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…

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September 29, 2012September 28, 2012

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…

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September 12, 2012September 11, 2012

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…

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September 8, 2012September 7, 2012

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…

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September 1, 2012August 22, 2012

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…

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August 15, 2012August 14, 2012

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…

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August 1, 2012

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…

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July 28, 2012

Travel Edition – July Unschooling Adventures

This month I’m going to share our unschooling fun and resources in two posts. Most of the month we were on a big road trip covering almost 3,400 miles in 19 days. We had lunch in Vermont and Connecticut, got gas in New Hampshire, stayed a night in Toronto and two nights in Montreal, relaxed…

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July 25, 2012

Olympic for Kids: 10 Awesome Websites or Posts to Check Out

I don’t know about you, but I am so excited to watch the 2012 Summer Olympics! My DVR is already set up to record the opening ceremony and first few events. I’ve been doing some research to find some activities related to the Olympics, and I wanted to share my 10 favorite Olympic websites or…

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July 4, 2012June 29, 2012

My June Unschooling Activities & Resources

To all who live in the United States, Happy 4th of July! I hope you all will be having a wonderful day with your family. We’re spending our 4th of July in an unusual way this year. We’re driving to Canada! We’re actually headed out today on a three week road trip. We’ll be staying…

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