Friday, September 10, 2010

Our Homeschool Adventure

Last winter when we decided to homeschool Annabell for her kindergarten year, I planned to keep things simple and do our work at the dining room table. But then I came to my senses. Our dining room table is the catch-all of our house. I knew that if I had to clear it off every morning, get out our schoolwork, and put everything away again in another room at the end of the day's lessons, we'd never get anything done.Thus our decision to transform...

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Last-Minute Getaway

We didn't plan on taking a family vacation this year, but thanks to some unexpected changes to Tim's schedule and irresistibly low hotel prices, we made the spontaneous decision to spend what might have been the last two days of summer weather in Ocean City, NJ! It's been two years since we took a family vacation, and then it was in this same month and to this same destination. I love the empty September beaches!Though our hotel room and its continental...