A few random thoughts:
*As we left the Monterey Peninsula yesterday, I neglected to say again how much we enjoyed it there. We may be back. In fact, we tucked a little piece of information into our collective back pockets as we left. Laguna Seca has volunteer opportunities where a family can commit for up to six months. You give 10 hours a week of your time, split between spouses, if need be, for free camping. Hmmmm…that is definitely something we’ll be thinking about for a possible future winter down the road.
*Homeschooling, or roadschooling as it can be called in our situation, rocks! Once again, the timing has been amazing when we least expect it. Today, Erika was learning about plants and how they drink water in 1st grade science. The textbook mentioned redwood trees and how water must travel up to 300 feet up their trunks to their leaves. Two days ago, that would have meant nothing to Erika. Today, we just looked out the window as understanding dawned in her eyes. So cool!
*In a similar vein, the curriculum we use is very big on geography. Anytime a certain place (anywhere in the world) is mentioned in any subject, we get out a large, foldable map. One of Erika’s jobs is to find the place and officially write it on the map in erasable pen. So many times, including today in literature, a place has been mentioned that we’ve actually been to already here in the U.S. It’s so exciting to her to be able to picture the place in her mind and immediately identify it on the map.
*And one last homeschooling note. We’re studying ancient cultures in 1st grade history, which means the two little girls have absorbed a tremendous amount as well. Erika is absolutely obsessed with ancient Egyptian anything. (Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire have done nothing yet to sway her love for Egypt.) We were recently discussing ethnicity at the dinner table and the girls know my heritage is Dutch. We told them Rob is all American, meaning the best of possibly lots of cultures. The girls asked if he had any Egyptian in him and we teased that yes, he just might. They have latched onto that like you wouldn’t believe and somehow they now believe their Daddy is “half Egyptian.” As if they didn’t already think he walked on water, this has elevated him even more in their eyes! Hilarious.
*Somehow we lucked out and have television at this campground, which means we just got to enjoy the intense Kentucky game. How awesome to see UK make it to the Elite Eight in a year no one expected it. C-A-T-S, C-A-T-S, C-A-T-S!
I may be an Arizona State alumni, but my heart is in Kentucky. Go Big Blue!!
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