Here you can read all about it. Sometimes it's traveling, sometimes it's homeschooling, occasionally we bitch. For some background, read our first post ever.
Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 5:27AM ;)
In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.~Christina Rossetti -1872
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Today is Dec. 22, 2009. We flew out of LAX, and away from our lives, six months ago today, on June 22. Pretty crazy to think about.
Some days we've felt like we were living the dream, and other days we have been absolutely sure that our lives were ruined forever. The way we look at things; the world, ourselves, our roles, is changing. We don't know how it'll all look in another six months, but right now it's exciting to plan, rather than scary to contemplate.
We've been told by friends we've met along the way
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This was taken by a friendly stranger in a German glühwein stand (German hot spiced wine) at the Edinburgh Christmas Fair. We'll be going back to the Fair this week when our friend Iris comes to visit.
We were talking to the German lady who runs the stand, and she asked how long we had been in Germany. When we told her six weeks, her reaction was so very European: "Oh - only six weeks. Not enough time to really see everything. Maybe you will come back soon."
Maybe we will.
Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 10:35PM I first posted this blog over a year ago. A recent conversation at a coffee shop had me thinking it was time for a re-post:
We home school our kids. We always have. Which means that Owen, age 10, and Eleanor, age 7, have never been to “regular” school, as Owen and Ella like to call it.
Now, immediately this brings visions to your mind. I know it does, so don’t even try to be all polite and pretend that it doesn’t. You have now drawn conclusions of one kind or another, many of which have nothing to do with my family, and lots to do with your experience, if any, with home schooling. I get it. I don’t mind. At one point I did mind, and I would try to painstakingly explain to people our reasons for home schooling, our commitment to our children, our relative normalcy in contrast to the freaky
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