Field Trip Day: Young's Jersey Dairy Farm

It’s a tradition with us.  When the big kids go off to school, my homeschooled kids and I take a couple of field trips…. Every school year, our lives seem to look just a bit different. This year, we have several “shifts” of school-age children.  The first shift gets on the bus first, then second [...]

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Chicago: Mother/Daughter Weekend

This is my first born….my Hailey. She is engaged now to a wonderful young man, Eric.  For the last number of months, wedding plans have been underway.  We’re coming into the homestretch as Hailey and Eric will both graduate from college this Spring. My purpose for traveling to Chicago this weekend  was three-fold:  to support [...]

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Young's Jersey Dairy Farm

Young’s Jersey Dairy is a well-known destination in SW Ohio.  It’s been around forever, I remember my aunt taking us there back in the 70′s when we would come up to Dayton to visit. It started as a family dairy farm, as the name might indicate.  As the years have gone by, they added batting cages, [...]

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Friday's Wrap-Up: A Day at the Park, Recession strategies and other Important Stuff

Meredith Today, after an Open House for Bereket at school, we stopped by the park to play.  The temperature was about 74 degrees with low humidity, absolutely wonderful! I happened to have my camera so I took a few shots of my kiddos playing.    Bereket Isaac  Ephy Mer is the most wonderful little mother’s helper…so humble and selfless. [...]

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Our Second Honeymoon: Day 2

Day 2 Agenda:  Jeep tour into the Rockies Check out these 6 seater jeeps!  We all piled in and hit the road. We weren’t really sure where we were going, but the anticipation was intoxicating! When the driver tied the stick shift up with a bungie cord, I wasn’t sure what to think….I was ready [...]

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Our Second Honeymoon: Day 1

Here we are, at the airport, not quite sure what to do with ourselves!     Yep, taking goofy pictures of ourselves like teenagers!  Are we really going on a vacation by ourselves?  Seems sureal….    What’s the first thing we do?  Look for sugar and caffeine…this will calm our nerves and help us cope.     [...]

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Our Second Honeymoon in Vail, Colorado

The last 6 days, Mark and I have been in Beaver Creek, Colorado on a second honeymoon! A trip alone seemed like a fantasy as we are obviously busy parents of a large family.  This opportunity to go to Beaver Creek, in the heart of Vale, came up several months ago.  My husband and I [...]

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Quick Weekend in Amish Country

My wonderful husband emailed me a picture of a quaint little cottage in Amish country on Friday. The weather forecast for the weekend was wonderful and he asked if I would be ‘Gumby-ish’, pack a quick bag and head up to Holmes County. Do I look like a fool? Unfortunately, we weren’t able to book [...]

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Monday, Monday….so Good to Me!

Bereket finishes pattern blocks with success! Today was like any other Monday, rich with the sounds of scanners running, pencils sharpening, DVD’s for school being loaded and oatmeal being complained about. The only difference today was that Meredith was in a hurry to finish her school work so that she could go to work with [...]

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The Learning Tree Farm

It’s been a LONG time since we’ve been to The Learning Tree farm!  It’s a real working farm with animals, gardens, etc…Hubs saw in the paper that they were having a ‘Fall Festival’ so we packed up the tribe and took a road trip. Isaac and Bereket look on as the blacksmith works. Mark and [...]

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