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 […]
Lovely Lucid Life March 2023
March. Ugh. You’re cold. You’re dirty. You aren’t my favorite. I strongly dislike the month of March in New England. It flat out gaslights you. One day it’s 50, the snow has almost melted and you can see your lawn again! Yay, spring is here. NOPE. The next day it’s below freezing and we are […]
7 Days in Folly Beach, South Carolina 2023
Here’s how our family spent 7 days in Folly Beach, South Carolina. A quirky little beach town right outside of Charleston. Our kids are currently 8 and 5. All of my suggestions are both kid and budget friendly. Our family recently took a one week vacation to one of our favorite places, Folly Beach in […]
My Family’s Experiment with One Backpack Travel
How my family of four traveled to Folly Beach, South Carolina in February for seven days with only one backpack each. After reading the blog post “How to Pack Lightly + What I Packed for 8 Days in Italy” from Abundant Life with Less, I was 100 percent sold on the idea of traveling with […]
Scooby Doo and Mystery Homeschool Unit Study 🕵️♂️
My kids have had a fascination with mysteries for as long as I can remember. Tree House Detectives, on Netflix was one of their favorite televisions shows and A to Z Mysteries were some of the first chapter books I read to them. We’ve played the kid version of Clue, since Jake was two. Jacob […]
How I get my photos and videos off my phone and actually enjoy them 📸
My grandfather passed away a few years ago. More recently I was given a photo album that my father found in his bedroom as he was sorting through his things. It was filled with photos, newspaper clippings and theater programs of me growing up through the years. My grandfather was a man of few words […]