Word Traveling

Category: Homeschooling

  • Astronomy On Vacation (guest post with Jay Ryan)

    It’s always fun to take vacations and see new places and to compare the differences from home. Having grown up in Ohio, I always remember my first trip to Florida, seeing my first palm tree! In addition to seeing different sights on the ground, you can also see differences in the sky. Though everyone in…

  • 10 Tips for Visiting National Parks with your Family

    10 Tips for Visiting National Parks with your Family

    10 Tips for Visiting National Parks with your Family If you’re like me, adventure is always on the mind, and you’d much rather be out in nature than studying it in a textbook. That’s part of the amazing freedom in homeschool, right? On our first national parks travel (Zion) with our son Makani, he was only…

  • Taking the Kids to the Edison & Ford Winter Estates

    Taking the Kids to the Edison & Ford Winter Estates

    Visiting the Edison & Ford Winter Estates with Kids When daddy has to get away on business in our home state of Florida, I’m the first to arrange an adventurous family field trip to travel along. This week, we drove across Alligator Alley from the East Coast to the West Coast for a couple of…

  • The Missing Element- A Poem

    Oh, words four days now the busyness has swept in. I’ve swept away dirt thoughts dead- lines check marks on my floor and mental black- bored without you. Missing you sweet, sweet words. Together, let’s move forward- once again leaving the dust and past behind. Buen Viaje! ~Jen

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    Prioritize, they say.             Make a list- call it C, B, A. Scratch this, Check that. Say “no” more, or yes less? I’m down to 6 percent battery on my Mac but my body feels a whole lot less than than that. It’s not hard getting it all done. It’s impossible.…

  • Folding Sheets

    A mother’s task list never ends- her families’ life upon it depends. With countless lines of things to do, One question troubles me… perhaps you. What’s the point of folding sheets? They’ll just get wrinkled when we sleep. T-shirts- I’ll fold them all day long while I sing a happy song. But those silly, giant…