While it’s definitely not a good time to travel at the moment travelschooling takes a lot of planning and now is the perfect time to get started for next year.  I usually plan my trips 10-12 months in advance.  (Except this grand adventure we are doing this year.  This one will be totally on the…

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Since I am a bit overwhelmed with the large number of variables in the next few weeks I have decided to focus a bit on my travelschooling road trips and from there we can piece together where we are going once we close on the house.  Since coronavirus continues to be an enormous concern we…

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Yay!  I was the recipient of a random act of kindness.  We’ve all seen the FB memes and heard the stories, but wow when it happens to you it’s like the sky is opening up and the warmth of the sun is pouring down on your rainy day.  Let me start by saying I have…

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Homeschooling Middle School and Learning to Color in the Lines

LS is my baby and the fact she is going into eighth grade is really freaking me out.  Luckily she loves being the baby and although she’s been working on her preteen snarkiness it doesn’t come naturally to her so I am cautiously optimistic I can pretend I still have a little kid at least…

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Since I feel like there are just too many variables in planning our trip to Alaska I have decided to focus a bit more on the girls’ school plan for next year.  Every year since I have been homeschooling I come up with a school plan.  It’s basically a subject by subject list of what…

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ES has been asking me for days where to register for the SAT since we are essentially going to be living on the road in a just a few short weeks.  Finally sensing her frustration Rick and I just looked at each other and said Anchorage.  Put down Anchorage.  So there is that.  We have…

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So here I go with my first blog post.  It’s odd really.  I have owned this website for several years now, but life got busy homeschooling.  We live in Washington, DC and I also own a luxury travel agency—Christopher Travel.  Between my business and homeschooling the pencil trek blog just took a back seat.  At…

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