We are in our third year of worldschooling. If Lucas and Henry were back in our old lives, they would be in 6th and 3rd grades, respectively. Earlier this year, they spent a semester in the Montana Hybrid Academy, an online academy. Lucas and Henry enjoyed it and liked going to Montana to meet a majority of the kids in…
Staying in one place is hard for us since we started traveling. Hot off the heels of our beach trip, we decided to spend the week with my dad in Boone, N.C. We stayed at the timeshare that my grandparents bought decades ago. I have great memories of spending my summers in Boone. On the most recent visit, we ate…
We have taken the opportunity to play more tennis while we are hanging out in North Carolina. We joined an indoor tennis center where the boys go to tennis clinics a few times a week. Michael is excited that they have a ball machine. Through connections at the tennis center, Lucas got the opportunity to be a ball boy at…
This time last year we were living in a beach town in Nicaragua. We could see the ocean from our balcony. This year we have been landlocked except for a couple of weeks at the beach. The first week was our mega aunt, uncle, and cousin weekend in Hilton Head, S.C. Our second week was another aunt, uncle, and cousin-filled…
Every once in a while Lucas and Henry will say they want another sibling. That is not going to happen, but that doesn’t mean they can’t see what it would be like. Their cousin Vivian was at the beach in Hilton Head with us. She flew home and then two days later decided she wanted to come to visit for…
Lucas and Henry have always had their own style. It is important to us that they get to decide what to wear and how to wear their hair. We believe in teaching them about good hygiene, but beyond that, it is their body and they should have a say in how they look. We do not make them dress up…
During our epic cousins week at the beach Lucas ran a restaurant with the help from his cousins. It was a breakfast joint called Cousins Restaurant. The restaurant was open every morning from 8-10. Aunts, uncles, grandmas, cousins, and even Michael, Henry, and I purchased meals. Lucas was responsible for creating the menu with pricing. He also had to come…
One grandma, a great aunt and uncle, four aunts, five uncles, and eleven cousins. An EPIC family beach week. It gets harder as we all get older and spread out geographically to find times when we can all get together. It is not easy. We drove from Arizona. My brother Sam and his wife AC flew from California. His kids…
We put over 12,000 miles on our car in the last 6 months. We put 1,800 of those miles on in two and half days by driving from Phoenix to Atlanta, and an additional 280 miles two days later to get to Hilton Head, South Carolina. We do not recommend making this trip so quickly. Normally we would not rush,…
We try not to visit Arizona in the summer, but this year it was on our way back East and it had been too long since we saw Michael’s mom and Mema. The week we visited the temperatures were in the 110s. We stay with Michael’s sister Melissa when we visit. The cousins have a blast together. They have a great…