(Warning: More vacation posts!) We spent another of our vacation days at the Cincinnati Zoo. The petting zoo is always a favorite! The kids spent half an hour feeding, petting and brushing the goats. I loved this zoo! The picture to the left shows the little boys petting a chincilla. There were animal handlers everywhere. …
October 2010, we took a week long family vacation to northern Kentucky. Our kids had been looking forward to it immensely. And why wouldn’t they? We had only been planning it for an entire YEAR! We spent a whole day at the Creation Museum. The kids had a blast looking at all the dioramas, dinosaur sculptures, real …
This past Friday, we enj0yed a field trip with our homeschool group to Global Wildlife in Folsom, LA. It’s less than two hours from home, so it made a nice day trip. If you are in the area or otherwise have the opportunity to go, we definitely give it a “thumbs up”. This is how …
Every fall, our family makes the short trek north and east to Camp Dixon in Dixon, MS to join fellow homescoolers in a weekend camping trip. It is a wonderful family experience that my kids look forward to each year. I am amazed at the life-long friendships that we all are building with other homeschoolers …
About a month ago, we took a weekend trip to nearby Mobile, Alabama. That trip included an entire day on Dauphin Island which is one of my favorite places on the planet. We also visited Bellingrath Gardens and The Exploreum. And we did a little geocaching on the island. These guys are called travel bugs. …
