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Are You Really Happy at Disney?
Disney is not the happiest place on earth. It’s hot. It’s expensive. It’s crowded. Even in February. Most adults hate Disney World. To be fair, I do know a few adults who love Disney — Dana G., Amy M....
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In Which She Explains Where She’s Been for Nearly Two Weeks
My ten year old son does not like to wear eyeliner. I know I should be happy about this, but Casey’s displeasure created a few tense moments in our bathroom about ten days ago while I was trying to...
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Making Friends
So. I met someone online. It’s not what you think. But still, maybe you shouldn’t tell my mother. I’ve been following the Our Mothership Adventures blog for at least a year now. A woman named Sennie...
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More Crepes, S’il Vous Plait!
Eensy teensy weensy confession: we went to Epcot week before last and I didn’t tell you because I had written such a Disney-hater blog post about Magic Kingdom a few weeks prior that I just couldn’t...
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“I Love the Mountains, I Love the Rolling Hills . . .” Days 1 and 2
I’m sitting by the river at the campground in North Carolina — not so’s I can brag about being by a sweet gurgling mountain river in North Carolina while you’re sitting where you are reading this,...
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“I Love the Mountains, I Love the Rolling Hills . . .” Day 3
Last summer, while Casey was at camp for two weeks, I tried to make a hiker out of Mace. It didn’t work. He whined. He was afraid snakes and bears would eat him. He held my hand and made me drag him...
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“I Love the Fireflies, I Love the Daffodils . . .” Day 4
I know I promised you a trip to Chimney Rock when I left you yesterday, but when I checked their website last night, it turns out the Hickory Nut Falls Trail is closed for the time being due to a...
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“I Love The Fireside, When All The Lights Are Low . . .” Day 5
Most of the planned activities on our trip thus far have been chosen with an eye toward avoiding shopping. The boys have a little money that they’ve saved for the trip and it’s been burning a hole in...
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“Boom-De-Ah-Da Boom-Dee-Ah-Dah . . .” Days 5-7
First, let me catch you up to date. Day 5: Laundry, hung out at the campground. Day 6: Trip to Song of the Wood to purchase a hammered dulcimer, which was expected in the mail to them. But alas, the...
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“Boom-De-Ah-Da Boom Boom Boom . . .” Day 9
Yesterday, on our first full day with Heidi-Ho and Ben with us, we took advantage of what is probably going to be our last day of sunshine for a few days and headed back up toward Linville to visit...
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Bye Bye Mountains . . . Hello . . . Sigh
Our summer, so far as absence of schoolwork, is officially over tomorrow and we are starting school. In my view, summer break in Florida is good only for as long as you can manage to be somewhere...
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What We Did On Our Unscheduled Vacation
Last week we took a Sabbath Week. You may remember that last year that we arranged our school year around six week increments, taking the seventh week off as a “Sabbath Week,” in which we were...
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Da Vinci in December
Pushing along in December . . . about a week before Christmas, Flamingo Joe informed us that his work project would be “going live” New Year’s Eve and he would be required to spend the week between...
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Exploring Castillo de San Marcos
Two days after returning from the homeschool convention, the boys and I drove to St. Augustine. My sister, the boys’ “Aunt Nanny,” was there for a conference all the way from Illinois, so we didn’t...
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Just Don’t Look Down
It’s funny that we think we know our children so well — how they will respond when faced with challenges. We think we know whether our children will, for example, suck it up, squelch their fears, and...
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Things Dez Says on a Long Road Trip Cut Short
So we were on a road trip with Dez that was supposed to last until Saturday of this week. Alas and alack, however, we had to send Dez home early with Heidi — and not because she was misbehaving (we...
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Camp Reunion and Hammered Dulcimer Shopping
We had two reasons for visiting North Carolina this summer (as if we needed even one to escape a week of July in Florida) — first was the reunion marking Camp Crestridge’s 60th summer, and second was...
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Meet Durema and Her Family’s New Farm
When we left Black Mountain a couple of weeks ago, we drove down to Clemson, South Carolina to visit a camp/college friend of mine. Durema and I were in the same cabin at camp together at some point...
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Safety First, Second and Third
While in South Carolina with Durema’s family, we visited a local river where the kids could float down in life jackets. I was reminded that while there may be a reason for the saying “safety first,”...
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Armed Forces History Museum: Mace’s Favorite Field Trip Ever
This is our Sabbath Year — which is my hyper-spiritual way of saying, “no” to almost everything we’ve been asked to do this year. We’ve said “no” to drama, choir, co-op, and any activity in which our...
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