traveling

It’s vacation time again! Hooray!   With three small children at home, traveling by airplane is cost prohibitive for us. We’ll be loading up our beloved minivan and hitting the road to sunny Florida this summer. After surviving this trip three times, I feel somewhat qualified to offer my tips for traveling by car with [...]

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My family recently embarked on a 1,000 mile, four day road trip. It was a really quick trip, but we did manage to learn a few things along the way. Do you know that Louisville, Kentucky is home to the World’s Largest Bat? That Nashville was home to the very first FM radio station? Or [...]

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It’s that time of year again! It’s Homeschool Convention time! This year I’ll be attending two homeschool conventions, a huge regional convention and a smaller, state convention.  I LOVE going to homeschool conventions.  Every one I’ve attended has been an incredible experience and I left each one feeling more dedicated than ever to the journey [...]

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Tuesday morning, math time.  The phone rings.  I ignore it.  It rings again, and again, and again.  I give in, and run to answer it, leaving the boys working on multi-digit multiplication and addition with carrying. It’s my mom.  “Your father can’t go.  His doctors have said no traveling.”    My parents had been planning to [...]

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Tips for Traveling

by Michele on August 4, 2010 · 5 comments

Summertime always gives me the travel bug. I have the itch to take our classroom on the road! Typically a few hours into a trip, I begin to wonder why I thought it was a good idea to travel with two small children for such a long time. Here are a few tips that make [...]

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We are currently on a family trip to visit relatives, so the “anywhere we happen to be” in this website’s byline definitely applies to our family right now! In order to get here, we had quite a long drive in the car. I did not want the kids to spend all of that time playing [...]

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