Two weeks, six states and 50 hours of driving and we are back home. We as parents learned a year's worth of ideas for our Charlotte Mason run homeschool, caught a free symphony in the gardens of a colonial governor's palace, ate seafood and surfed on the Atlantic coast, saw a dolphin and a shark, played tennis and walked the marina, watched mountains of cooking shows and soccer games (we don't get those on our tv), attended a wedding with long missed friends and generally enjoyed eating and sleeping at our whim. The kids explored two zoos, camped for 4 days with grandparents which included swimming, canoeing, fishing, sandcastle building, marshmallow and hotdog roasting. They played soccer, baseball, cricket, croquet, I'm probably forgetting something, and lots else that I didn't hear about. They didn't get to bed anywhere on time and they decided that chocolate and popcorn counted as vegetables.
And my first thoughts on our return home was how the garden fared in our absence. The rabbits had a feast. Good for them. As good as it is to go away, it's good to be home.
I want to write more about the Charlotte Mason conference and what I learned. I'm not sure I'll get much done though. In the meantime if you're interested here's a website with some of the ideas from those in my homeschool group who also attended the conference.
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