A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure to be interviewed by Pam Laricchia for her Exploring Unschooling Podcast. It’s now online as episode #172! I won’t lie, I was surprised when Pam asked me to be a guest and hesitated to agree, especially when I found out it would be on video as Read More
Category: Life
Scuba
When we were snorkeling in Cozumel for Thanksgiving a few years we ran across a scuba diving group that just happened to be from Iowa. It was on that trip that my husband declared for certain that he would like to pursue scuba diving and would take classes when we got back home. He has Read More
Legos
It’s been well over a year now since kiddo decided he was done building with Lego and ready to let most of it go. He came to this realization himself, without any influence from us. We were a bit surprised, especially given we know many kids keep them for much longer (sometimes even into adulthood), Read More
Missing our exercise
It’s been just over a week, and we’re greatly missing our exercise! For the duration of our trip we had been walking about 20km+ a week as part of our regular daily routines. That was not including big planned walks or hikes, just walking to/from the shops, to visit places and see things, to play Read More
Home again
Thanks to my fab sister for taking such great care of our place while we were away and the lovely welcome back. Now to try and get into the Christmas spirit and make progress on some goals!
Unschoolers Platform 2017
We spent last week at the fabulous Unschoolers Platform 2017 conference at the Key Lime Cove waterpark in Gurnee, Illinois! It was the second year for the event. (See last year’s post.) There are several aspects that come together to make a successful conference, and this one had it all – friendly people, knowledgeable speakers, lots of opportunities Read More
New Year, new adventures!
Happy New Year! We’ve got a lot of fun trips planned for 2017 already, and we’re all quite excited about it! As of right now, our plans include the following: February – Chicago, IL area for the Unschoolers Platform conference, where I’m leading a discussion on worldschooling! March – Playa del Carmen, MX April – Merida, Read More
Visiting the medico and farmacia
We got to experience the medico and farmacias yesterday for the first time. Poor kiddo is dealing with swimmer’s ear on one side and in a lot of pain when he usually has a very high pain tolerance. He’s never experienced anything like this before. We started by getting some drops from the farmacia near Read More
Halloween!
Halloween in Mexico! Yes, they have it here too! We saw house parties, trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood, plus HUGE crowds of people on Quinta Avenida, Playa del Carmen’s hot spot. When asked to go trick or treating with some other worldschoolers kiddo needed an impromptu Halloween costume. This is what we figured out! He got a lot Read More
Swim while the sun shines!
Lesson learned. Swim while the sun shines! Kiddo set a goal to swim every day on this trip. Most days that’s been no problem, but yesterday was an exception. Even though it’s the rainy season here, so far that’s meant the occasional shower or even brief downpour like the one that left us soaking last week. But Read More