Time Off

Take Some Time by Jessica.Tam I am taking some much needed time off to be with my family but I’ll be back in full force with a great Wordless Wednesday. I hope you have a great first half of the week!

Granny

“How the hell are ya’” she would say, in her husky former smoker voice, EVERY TIME she would greet you. She was fiesty, rough, loving and all around amazing. She was my Granny. I’ve been absent for the last week or so because Granny passed away. She had been on hospice for a while but…

Camping on the Beach at Assateague Island National Seashore

My Internet absence has been due to preparing for and participating in a group camping trip to Assateague Island National Seashore. We have camped here for a couple of years now and find it to be one of the best (and least expensive) trips we take all year. Sun, friends, surf and sand. If you’ve…

Great Wolf Lodge Water Park in Williamsburg – 5 Reasons to Visit

Let me start by saying I’m not normally a fan of water parks. They’re hot, wet and crowded so when my mother gave the kids a gift certificate to Great Wolf Lodge water park I was excited but hesitant. I booked the trip and hoped for the best. Well we just got back and I have to…

Homeschooling and Socialization

[ad name=”Above Content”] I was recently asked by a mom considering homeschooling about socialization and she was concerned that her kids would be missing out on social experiences if they weren’t in school.  There is a common misconception that homeschoolers are unsocialized and don’t know how to interact with others and their peers since.  It’s…

How to (Not) Worry About Homeschooling

[ad name=”Above Content”] As a family we definitely have a more unschooling bend to us and my husband and I are really free form with the girls education.  That being said our girls LOVE workbooks and so do we.  I attribute this to the fact that no one has ever told them that workbooks aren’t…

Getting Corny – Corn Husk Dolls

[ad name=”Above Content”] At our CSA’s harvest festival over the weekend I was a volunteer and I was tasked with helping both children and disabled adults create corn husk dolls.  I had a blast.   These dolls are very simple to make and my friend and I assisted in the making of around 150 dolls….

Thanksgiving

For the last four years we’ve taken off and had a mini-vacation over Thanksgiving, just our little nuclear family. This gives us an opportunity to reconnect and relax without the stress and worry of others. A time where we can really just break away and have fun. This year we went to Salem, Ma. It…

Geocaching, fun for the whole family!

A rusted out tractor deteriorated to barely recognizable parts, crossing a stream on large stepping stones, climbing a steep embankment, these are things we’ve seen or done recently while participating in a new hobby as a family, geocaching. For those who don’t know geocaching is a sport/hobby/activity in which you use a GPS device to…

Camping on the beach is fun, despite the sand.

200608 – Assateague – 208487707_4fe3514d91_o – ponies – 2 of them Originally uploaded by ClintJCL. I have a hate hate relationship with sand so I was somewhat reluctant to go on our camping trip this past weekend to Assategue National Park but I’m glad I did. After many delays, like needing a new master cylinder…