August 2011 – Free Range Dreams Homeschooling

August 16, 2011 4 Comments

Up With the Sun

We wanted to be on Cadillac Mountain at 5:32am when the sun would rise and hit that point before any other place in the US. Cadillac Mountain is in Acadia National Park in Maine. We, however, were outside Acadia National Park, spending the night in a Walmart 45 minutes away. So,...

August 11, 2011 3 Comments

Cincinnati with Friends

Amanda and Gwydion are two of my closest and dearest friends from college, and now they have spawned a third to create a lovely triumvirate who I wish I could hug daily, but currently don’t. I was, however, thrilled to get to hug them for a few days, to slip into...

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Cincinnati Zoo

Thank you, John and Christal for the wonderful gift: tickets to the zoo! Annabelle hasn’t been to a zoo since she was a baby and she LOVED it! We all loved it, but it was Annabelle’s first time seeing animals bigger that a pet–can you say rhinoceros? And the best part?...

August 10, 2011 6 Comments

I Know Why the Gypsies Dance

This morning I stepped out of Benny to sunshine sparkling on the line of energetic automobiles motoring along the highway and behind them, the less energetic treeline of a Northern Forest. We played outside on the grass at the Saturday parking lot of the Warren County Municipal Center where the police...

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Ada

She’ll be seven years old in just one month and she is the most kind, thoughtful, sweet and caring girl I could have hoped for. When I ask her if she will get my sandals, hold my purse, or hold her brother, she responds with a sweet, “Of course!” Annabelle adores...

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Cassidy

Ah child of countless trees, ah child of boundless seas… Cassidy always struck me as a little Buddah baby and that impression remains now that he’s growing up. I can’t pinpoint what it is. It’s not that he doesn’t cry, because he does. But his general disposition is jolly and easy...

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Annabelle

Annabelle was eighteen months old when we left, was adjusting to being a big sister, and starting to talk. A couple of weeks into our adventure I decided to wean her. She was having a really rough time sharing nursing with our new baby and there was a lot of screaming...

August 9, 2011 2 Comments

Cincinnati with (surprise) Family

David played the Findlay Market Saturday morning which was simultaneously hopping and crawling with Cincinnatians: When who should approach me but family I didn’t even realize we had! Buffy’s brother is married to David’s Aunt Holly and way back when I was new in this family, and Ada was new in...

August 6, 2011 2 Comments

Cincinnati with Family

The beautiful home that Jeff and Reda have made in Alexandria Kentucky is an oasis of peace, lovliness, and blooming flowers, conveniently located real darn close to our destination of Cincinnati Ohio. After a series of Walmart hotels over the prior week, then a couple of hours driving through the serene...

West Virginia – Grand View

We had the best time with Robby over several days. The West Virginia woods were beautiful and astonishing, the company was jovial, the skies clear and the sun bright. The girls were loving it, Cassidy was still too little to tell us what he thought about it, and the caves were...

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Month: August 2011