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Fort Walla Walla field trip
Yesterday we drove down to visit the Fort Walla Walla museum. My “neighbor” blogger, Katey @ Crazy Homeschool Mama, posted about their visit to the museum a few days. It looked so interesting, and since Walla Walla is only about 3 hours away we thought it would be a fun day trip for the family before Lyle and I take…
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Lolo Motorway
This past weekend we took “a step back in time” and traveled the Lolo Motorway which follows one of the most difficult parts of the Lewis and Clark trail. “Motorway” makes it sound like a super highway or something, doesn’t it? Um. It’s not. It’s a very rough 75-mile long dirt road. I guess back in the ’30s when the…
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Headed to Seattle
It’s time for my third homeschool conference this spring. This one is in the Seattle area, and I always look forward to the springtime drive over the Cascades. Everything is so fresh and newly green, but there is probably still plenty of snow in the mountains. It’s been my experience that spring comes a little earlier to the western side…
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Our weekend in Colorado
It’s been an exhausting but productive weekend at the Loveland, Colorado homeschool convention. My feet ache and my throat is scratchy from talking so much, but as always I find it so rewarding to visit with other homeschool parents about Sonlight! My older daughter worked with me in the booth today. She especially enjoys the little ones who come through…
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The Rockies in Winter
We took the scenic route over the Rockies on our way to the homeschool curriculum fair in Loveland, Colorado today. Since it is still officially winter, there is plenty of snow at the higher altitudes. We saw lots of skiers and snow-boarders out enjoying the end of the season. We saw “wildlife crossing” signs for moose, elk, and big horn…
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Homeschool Convention Season Begins
This spring marks my 10-year anniversary as a Sonlight Curriculum Consultant! This year I will be hosting the Sonlight booth at five different homeschool conventions. My first event is this weekend in Loveland, Colorado. My family is looking forward to the scenic drive over the Rocky Mountains. As you know, we love road trips– whether for business or pleasure or,…
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Christmas in the Country
Usually we stay home for Christmas and have a quiet celebration with “just the four of us.” This year we decided that our family gift would be a trip to Arkansas to spend Christmas with my parents. We left on the evening of Christmas Eve. As we traveled on Christmas Day we “enjoyed” scenery similar to this: Most of the…
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Oregon Trail Interpretive Center
As we’ve been studying the American Revolution this year, I have wished we had the opportunity to visit some of the historical sites — Boston, Philadelphia, Williamsburg, Washington D.C… Living “way out west” is kinda unhandy for field trips to such places, though we do hope to make such a trip before too long, possibly next year. In our history…
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It’s all good!
The other evening as we were driving across Montana (which is a very large state in case you haven’t taken that drive lately) a storm gathered and the rains began to come. We were concerned that we wouldn’t be able to get to our trailer if the back-roads turned to mud. The sun broke through the western sky and a…
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Home Again!
Just stopping by to make sure the grass hasn’t started to grow in the middle of the road here on my blog… from neglect, you know!We did finally make it home with our trailer this past Tuesday evening. We hadn’t planned to be on-the-go quite as much as we have this summer… but that’s just the way it has worked…
