Zeb took a serious interest in the Jr Ranger Program offered through our National Parks while we were in Indiana. Our first park and his first badge has come from Lincoln National Park in Southern Indiana. According to his age, he was required to finish five pages of the program and a list of tasks [...]
Posts Tagged ‘life’
Whole Life Unschooling: It’s For More Than Just Kids
Zeb: always running ahead for what he loves. Justin: We watched him watch this giraffe for a full 20 minutes. Me: They waited for me while I read every sign in the place. There are so many definitions to unschooling. You can find them everywhere and they all do a perfectly fine job of explaining [...]
Claiming The First Meltdown
Bad weather, bad traffic, too much noise, too little space and boondocking outside a casino, for goodness sake…I managed to get through dinner by listening to music that never grows old and pretending I heard nothing else as I made spaghetti and the guys played Mario on the DS. But by the time it came [...]
The First of 28, and a Question
The very first thing on my list of 28: 1. Embrace my child’s fullness, even especially when it scares me. When I wrote that it just sort of tumbled out. I’m not sure I really understood it, but it took rank as the first thing my heart desired for this year and so I trusted [...]
An Inner Memorial
our prayers, originally uploaded by fubuki. Life…and death…have sent me a reminder. I sat at my kitchen counter as I waited for my macaroni casserole to finish in the oven, determined to finish The Omnivore’s Dilemma which was due back today. Justin came in, wrapping his arms around me in silence. I finished my paragraph, [...]
