Family Life & Kids
As we finish homeschooling 3 kids through high school
July 31, 2019
I don't have the same sparkly idealism. (It's fun! It's easy!) What I have instead is years of experience that have confirmed what was once just theory - it's possible to do something different with education and to build the kind of relationships I envisioned for family life.
Vacations on our way to an empty-ish nest
July 23, 2019
Our children are practically adults now and will be choosing for themselves what to do with their leisure time and how to fund that leisure. Whatever they choose, we don't feel a responsibility anymore to keep the gang together and create summer vacation memories.
What counts as vacation, anyway?
July 19, 2019
It's taken me many years of adult life to feel comfortable with my own family's version of family vacation, which has been an evolving hybrid of traveling to visit family, camping and backpacking, and working roadtrips.
And then it was summer
July 5, 2019
I have been getting what I longed for at the end of May - a break, a rest, a reprieve. And lots of fun.
A Friday Introduction (and a bit of Instagram talk)
June 14, 2019
Sharing the Friday Introduction I posted to Instagram today. An update to my current about page here on the blog.
I need a summer
June 7, 2019
I feel weary. It's that time of year. It's that time of life. All the school year-end fuss and effort, deadlines and parties, the drama production. A long string of hard-working days, interspersed with "special" days (read: days with more work), punctuated by some bad news days. Ugh.
Post-production
May 28, 2019
I'm pretty sure I'll look back on these particular Mays, when our kids were teenagers in a homeschool co-op musical theatre production, with nostalgia and fondness. So I do my best to be present for the experience, which is easier said than done.
