I have unschool homeschool envy. There. I admitted it. I am so jealous of families who take off for a week to go camping with 20 other homeschool families and call that “schoolwork”. I feel a physical yearning to throw my lesson plans out my window and turn today’s math lesson into 2 hours of [...]
As busy as summer is for us, fall is even busier. And each year, as we transition from summer chaos to fall’s schedule, I breathe a sigh of relief that I’ve juggled yet another 90 days of travel, summer camps, vacations, school transitions, spontaneous weekend fun, get togethers and accelerated work schedules and look forward [...]
A few weeks ago, a co-worker at one of my client’s sites asked me if I knew what my personality was. My response was “not really” which is not 100% the truth. The truth, however, would have taken awhile to explain and both of us had just finished outlining our priority lists. In a [...]
Welcome IComLeWe’ers to my blog! As you can see, it’s a busy place around here and I’m trying to get myself back into blogging on a regular basis. Life is busy and as a single mom, new business owner, consultant and educator to my 12 year old daughter (that’s her communing with a rather large giraffe at [...]
In the last five months, we have run the gamut as far as schooling goes. We started out the year in our local public school, left our public school in March and allowed Drue to “deschool” for six weeks where she lolled about in her pajamas, read a lot of books, spent a few hours [...]
What can I say? I love a good tea party. And what offers up a better excuse than getting together a bunch of terrific Moms who homeschool, their daughters, and my daughter to host a midday tea at a little gem right here in Palo Alto better known as Tea Time!! On the menu were [...]
I’m not sure you can get more fun out of a day than I managed on Friday. An early morning drive down to Santa Cruz with two friends at 8:30 AM was the start to a terrific day that culminated in an evening tour of one of my new friends’ lovely home and plans for [...]
I decided to start my new 101 things in 1001 days list off with a bang by giving myself thirty days of fun. Item #24 requires I give myself thirty days of fun for each year it takes me to complete this list. Since I am not scheduled to finish my 101 things until mid-2014, [...]
After giving Drue a good month off to decompress or, as many homeschoolers call it, to “deschool” I realized I had three challenges ahead of me. The first challenge was that I had no idea what Drue actually learned after 7 years of public education. Second, I had no idea how she learns. And finally, [...]
A few days ago, two friends of mine took off 2 months to take a 30 day bike trip through Europe and the UK as well as pursue additional adventures here in the US upon their return. I had the pleasure of speaking to one of them the day before they left and, naturally, my [...]
