decatur book fest – 4 sep 2011
I arrived a little bit early for m volunteer shift at the Decatur Book Festival — things were just starting to get set up.
live in concert – justin roberts
a week ago, the girls and I were on our way home from Chicago. Earlier in the month, I had begun to work earnestly on a calendar of “kindie events” and was thrilled to see that Justin Roberts would be performing in Champaign, IL, right as we were heading home. We arrived in Champaign-Urbana (everyone
Dragon*Con – 3 sep 2011
Rob and the girls at Dragon*Con today. Rob actually marched in the parade. It was bizarre the number of people who asked for photos of Chloe and Rob.
Photo Friday: Great Wolf Lodge
Almost three weeks ago (how time flies!), the girls and I headed of to Great Wolf Lodge in Concord, NC to start off our new year of homeschooling. We had a difficult time deciding where to go, but the in house MagiQuest sold us, and we were not disappointed! This is an entry for Delicious
live in concert – ralph’s world
We’ve been planning all summer to make a trip up to Chicago but have been waiting for a convenient weekend that would also include at least one or two kindie concerts. And, finally, we managed to make it up north on the last weekend of August. As we were delivering a large object, we decided
Staying: Great Wolf Lodge
A little over two weeks ago we started our new homeschooling year. To get the year off to a great start, we headed out of town to stay at Great Wolf Lodge in Concord, NC. While booking, I debated whether to try out this new-to-us waterpark or return to Wilderness in the Smokies where we
Packing: Create a Master List
I admit, I inwardly smirked at the people who write about their packing lists; packing lists are for the weak! I had a system, developed over years of practice. But then, I tried it. And, despite believing that my “system” for getting us packed for a trip was efficient enough, I have now changed my
Attractions: MagiQuest
A video game escaped from the computer and landed in the hallways of the hotel. Kids cooperated and assisted while working to complete their individual quests. We discovered MagiQuest back in 2009 while on a trip to Myrtle Beach.While we didn’t play on that trip, Camille researched it when we got back home and knew
Can it be true?
Did we really manage to bring everything that we meant to bring? Since we seem to hit the road every week or two, the girls are responsible for packing their own clothes, diversions and homeschooling. I’ve come to accept that on each trip there will be at least one thing that will have been forgotten.
Photo Friday: Visiting Friends
While I love to travel to new places to see interesting places and have new experiences, this past week we took a different kind of trip, a trip to visit old friends. No touristy or quirky destination on the schedule. Just time reconnecting with old friends. Of course, while we were there, we came up
Photo Friday: Mermaids at Fernbank
This year, we’ve decided that we will play Hometown Tourists whenever we are actually in town. Though we’ve been to the Fernbank Museum of Natural History a gazillion times, it was this week’s tourist destination. The weather has been so HOT that I wanted to go somewhere indoors and no place that has gardens we
Photo Friday: CNN Center
Since we have to stick closer to home this year so that Chloe can attend her “Training Team” gymnastic practices twice a week, I’ve decided that it might be lots of fun to play “Hometown Tourists”. There is a lot to see in Atlanta that we’ve just never made the time to see. This week,
Roadtrip: Life on the Road
Earlier this summer, Rob, the girls and I spent five and a half weeks living on the road. The trip was so long, the post office refused to hold our mail — mail can only be held for thirty days. “Is there an address that we can forward your mail to?” Um, no, there isn’t.
Photo Friday: House in the Woods
This past week, the girls and I made a *very* fast roadtrip up to the DC suburbs; the entire trip was under 60 hours, with at least 25 of those being spent in the car. The motivation? To attend the One Voice Rocks! concert in Gaithersburg. What made the trip even more special was that
live in concert: OneVoice Rocks!
When I first heard about the OneVoice Rocks! Festival, I knew the girls and I had to get there. Some of our favorite bands (SE rockers Lunch Money, Seattle’s Best Recess Monkey, hometown hero Robbie Schaefer) coming together? To play live music? For a great cause? Near where we love to be? How could we
Travels: Chattanooga Sights
Last week, my mom, the girls and I traveled up to Chattanooga to attend a Lunch Money concert. I decided to splurge a little and stay at the ever-so fun Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel. Since we were in Chattanooga for less than 24-hours and some of that time was at the concert, we had to
Photo Friday : Dusty Roads (Georgetown, TX > Carlsbad, NM)
On Day Four of our “epic trip out west“, we drove 499 miles, but only one of them on interstate highways! Driving the smaller roads from central Texas to southwest New Mexico, we saw dirt. Lots and lots of dirt. Usually the dirt was on the ground, but quite often it would be whipped up
Travels: Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel
For a couple of years now, the girls and I have been talking about returning to chattanooga for a couple of days. We wanted to get back to the aquarium as well as visit some of the Lookout Mountain attractions such as Rock City and Ruby Falls. When I saw that Lunch Money would be
live in concert: lunch money
Spur of the moment (sort of), we decided to take an overnight trip up to Chattanooga. We’ve been wanting to return for a couple years now and hearing that Lunch Money, our favorite kindie band from South Carolina, would be having a concert there made it seem like an ideal time to go. We’ve been
Photo Friday: Roadside America (I-20 ATL > TX)
Just a few days before our “epic trip out west“, I was daydreaming about all the “Great American Sights” we were planning to see – Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Yosemite. But that wasn’t enough. What about the “quirkier side” of this crazy country? A very short search (we were running out of time) later, I settled
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