My Life is a bit of a Joke

School Moms Are Heroes! (I Thought Homeschooling Kept Me Busy)

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May 102013

School Moms Are Heroes! (I Thought Homeschooling Kept Me Busy)

My hats are off to all school moms. Congratulations on sending your kids to school and surviving. As long term homeschoolers, I have been questioned many times: “How do you do it, you don’t get anytime to yourself? “You must be so busy all time, with the kids around 24/7″ “Why on earth would you want to home school your kids?” – Sorry, wrong conversation. “If you put your kids in school you would have so much more free-time to do the things you want to do.” What I didn’t understand is that these school moms visualized their current life [Read More]

What You Missed While I Was Doing AtoZ Challenge

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May 062013

What You Missed While I Was Doing AtoZ Challenge

Wondering what you missed? The ridiculous events that make up my day to day life did not come to a grinding halt for April so I could participate in the AtoZ Challenge. So here are a few of the highlights of what you missed in our past month: Happy Birthday to my baby! She is now a teen. Poor hubby, now he lives with two teenage girls and a menopausal wife. * * * * * * * * * * An actual conversation: Me: “In what reality is that funny?” Teen: “Oh, you don’t understand because your old.” * [Read More]

How To Be A Good House Guest (AtoZ Travel Tips)

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Apr 092013

How To Be A Good House Guest (AtoZ Travel Tips)

Are you wondering why I would include “How to be a good house guest” amongst my travel tips? Simple – If your a bit of a wanderer and you follow my travel tips, you will at one point or another, find yourself invited to stay with a stranger as a house guest. Don’t leave this behind: (Image Credit: Licensed Under Creative Commons Attribution by Maizers) Scenario 2: Excited about sharing a weekend with a friend I haven’t seen in years, I open the door to greet her and she starts the conversations with, “Hi, I’m starving, what do you have [Read More]

My Daughter Got a Bible at School and I Met The Teachers

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Mar 312013

My Daughter Got a Bible at School and I Met The Teachers

“Your not going to believe it mom, I got a bible at school today!” It was at this moment I knew what to write about today, amongst some scattered randomness. Parent-Teacher Meetings: Our girls have now been in school for 9 weeks, and on Wednesday we had our first parent-teacher meetings. (At age 12 and 15 my previously home schooled, traveling girls embarked on this year’s adventure: giving school a try.) One could hardly call the 5 minutes allocation a “meeting” but it was enough time to hear that my girls are well prepared. This is what every former homeschool [Read More]

What A Week! New Traveling Friends, Police, Immunizations and More

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Mar 152013

What A Week! New Traveling Friends, Police, Immunizations and More

What a week! When we announced a travel break, a homeschool break and putting our 12 and 15 year old in school for the first time we were greeted with a mix of reactions. Regardless of which side of the fence our friends were on the universal question “What will I do with all that free time?” I had a plan. At first it was perfect. Coffee. Sunshine. Yacht racing. Spending quality time with hubby. Then it went south. I don’t mean my niece who has been here since January and went touring in the South. No, I mean the [Read More]

The Luck of the Irish for Wordless Wednesday *Linky

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Mar 132013

The Luck of the Irish for Wordless Wednesday *Linky

With the luck of the Irish and a visit to the Leprechaun Museum in Dublin, we wish you an early Happy St. Patrick’s Day from Laugh Quotes on this Wordless Wednesday. Can you identify Leprechaun Rhonda? We Are Leprechauns A Kiss to Share the Luck of the Irish We were shrunk to leprechaun size when we visited the Leprechaun Museum in May 2012. Is it actually good luck to kiss a leprechaun? Tweetable Laugh Quote (just click on it to tweet): “What do you get when you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover? A rash of good luck.” ~Author [Read More]