Entries Tagged as 'Life Without School'

Friday, March 30th, 2007

My Children Are So Strange

They are outside cleaning the porch. No, they’re not sweeping it or picking up toys or organizing gardening tools. They have filled a bucket with water and are scrubbing the wooden decking with old handtowels. I can’t get them to clean their room but this is what they come up with to do on a [...]

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Holiday Wishes For You

Dear Sir, Madam, or other Appropriate Gender Inclusive Designator:
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion or secular practices of your choice, with respect for [...]

Monday, July 17th, 2006

Floyd World Music Festival

Is anyone else going?
No, it’s not a fan gathering of people honoring Pink Floyd, although that would be pretty cool, too. It’s a three day celebration of music from around the globe, held annually in the little town of Floyd, Virginia. 2002 was the first festival and it has continued to grow every year while [...]

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Not A Mundane Week

We’ve had an interesting week!
Friday night we took the kids to go see Pirates of the Caribbean, whooho! Mehalje is all about pirates and Captain Jack Sparrow in particular. I have to admit I like Johnny Depp for a whole other reason, hee he. We checked with our local theater but decided it would be [...]

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Sights and Celebrations

Just wanted to share a few photos from our extended Independence Day “weekend” festivities.