A year ago we pushed the reset button on our lives and moved back to our home state. We purchased a small house with an apartment we could rent out to pay our mortgage and began homeschooling. This move was one of the scariest things I’ve ever done, but I surrendered to it. After spending […]
Storyland, The Golden Apple Inn and Moat Mountain Mineral Site, New Hampshire 2023
We recently made the drive across Maine to Glenn, New Hampshire where we stayed at The Golden Apple Inn and visited our favorite New England theme park, Storyland. It was part of our 9 day trip by car in and around New Hampshire. Travel Day We are fully embracing big kid mode and loving the […]
My Family’s Experience with 9 Days of Travel by Car
How my family of four traveled by car for nine days in and around New Hampshire. I genuinely love New England and have zero desire to travel anywhere out of it during the summer and fall. Late Winter and early spring are entirely different story. I’d gladly erase the month of March in New England. […]
Peaks-Kenny State Park, Dover-Foxcroft Maine Camping Trip July 2023
Our second camping trip of the season brought us to Peaks-Kenny State Park in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. This is a beautiful, small 56 site campground on the shore of Sebec Lake. Setting Up our Campsite We checked in, picked up some Junior Ranger books and headed to our campsite. We stayed at site 36. It was […]
Lovely Lucid Life June 2023
Summer has arrived for us and despite persistent rain here in Maine it’s been lovely. Here’s a snapshot of what June 2023 looked like for us. Camping Our first camping trip of the season brought us to Camden Hills State Park. You can read about it here. Jake’s Last T-Ball Game Jake finished up T-Ball […]
My Favorite Things to do with Young Children in The White Mountains of New Hampshire
After spending several years living in New Hampshire and exploring the The White Mountain area, here are my favorite things to do for families with young children during the summer. We are settling into our new area up in here in Northern Maine and gearing up for a season of camping, preparing to explore a […]
Camden Hills State Park Camping Trip, Camden Maine June 2023
Our family headed out on our first camping trip of the season to Camden Hills State Park and Campground in June 2023. We finished our first year of homeschool last Friday and celebrated that accomplishment, as well as our 11 year wedding anniversary with a camping trip to Camden Hills State Park in Camden, Maine. […]
Life, Harry Potter and Field Trips
Holding on and Letting Go March, April and May have been full months for us. We’ve celebrated birthdays and death and all had some growing pains. My kids turned 6 and 9. As I do every year I struggled with them getting older. Anika’s birthday really hit me this year. I vividly remember 9. It […]
Saying goodbye to Tweaklet
This week we said goodbye to our 17 year old pug, Tweak. Tweak’s kidneys had begun to fail and as she slowly slipped away we knew it was time for her to go. She was ready. Tweak was a fierce little pug. Stubborn to the core, she did things in her own way on her […]
Sponge Bob and Marine Biology Homeschool Unit Study 🐙🐬🦑
At the end of February we returned from a week long vacation to Folly Beach South Carolina. Having minimal time to prep much of anything, I looked through the curriculum that I hadn’t used up yet this year and stumbled upon, The Good and The Beautiful Marine Biology unit study. This seemed appropriate as we […]