One of my favorite projects over the last couple of years has been researching and writing about US national parks for Equity Estates’ travel blog. Not only have I learned more about the history and attractions at some of our country’s best parks, I’ve also been able to use the research to create my own must-visit NP list. Congaree is the closest to me, but how amazing would it be to visit Virgin Islands National…
The quiet of winter is gone. Spring is here and the world wakes up. Flowers blooming, bees buzzing — carpenters in particular, looking for fresh wood to burrow into. The lawnmowers awaken as well. And now every day the air is filled with the hum of them — close by or faintly in the distance. A near constant sound that had been sleeping in winter’s quiet. Our own landscapers come every two weeks, with no…
This piece originally ran in Home|School|Life magazine and on my former Summerly Homeschool blog. It was written near the end of our summer break a few years ago. I thought it might be appropriate to share it here, now that summertime has rolled around again. We have had a lazy summer. Not lazy in the sleeping all day, not getting anything done sort of way (though there were days like that, I admit), but lazy in…