You can find me over at Enjoy Life Unschooling today talking about World of Warcraft and my family.
I’m a Level 39 Gnome Warlock
Enjoy!

Yes, that *is* what a forest fire looks like from about 100 miles away (actually I think it’s closer to 40-50 miles upon closer inspection of the map.).  At least I *think* it’s 100 miles or so.  Apparently the Olympic Mountains are so vast that even Google maps can’t calculate the distance.
From what I read [...]

An impromptu Unschooling blog carnival.  Please feel free to join.
I:

read books to my almost 12 year old, because he loves fiction but doesn’t really like to read even though reads quite well.
stay up past midnight with my 5 year old so he can finish his level in his video game.  He does in fact, get [...]

Happy, happy birthday Phoenix.
Yes, we will be celebrating with cupcakes.

I’m writing over at Enjoy Life Unschooling today. The title above is the actual title for the article. We seemed to have a little mix-up. Hopefully, it will be fixed soon. Otherwise, Enjoy Life is a fabulous resource for all things unschooling put together by my dear friend Faith.  I’ll be [...]

Remember our aquarium?   The kids got it for Christmas.  We put 5 or 6 fish and a shrimp in it.  Within a week we lost Shrimpy and Pinksicle (a neon tetra).  I haven’t cleaned the tank since we got it.  I thought they were all going to die anyway and frankly cleaning an aquarium [...]

We have now attended our very first ComiCon ever. This is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. I love how we could all go and enjoy it for different reasons. TJ is the big overall geek in our family. He could stay at the booths with all the [...]

Milo has been trying to flip on the trampoline for awhile.  He finally mastered his own version of flipping so I needed to share it.  Otherwise the photos are unrelated to the blog post.
We had a full day yesterday.  We are usually a pretty laid back family, so two events in one day is big!  [...]

I’m going to be very careful with my words.  I know someone who works for the TSA.  I need to make the disclaimer that I am in no way trying to offend or hassle this person.
With that said.  The TSA does absolutely nothing that makes me feel safer.  They make me feel violated and less [...]

I’ve decided to migrate this winter.  Not only from Vermont to Washington, but from Blogspot to Wordpress.  I’ve been meaning to do this for quite some time but the very thought of it caused meltdowns of epic proportions a little stress.  I didn’t have the time or the brain capacity to handle all the work [...]