small hiatus

the doc has a short conference to attend in alexandria, va. thanks to some last minute planning and 1 of the few people on earth that can tolerate all 4 of my yahoos overnight, i get to tag along! a couple of days of:

• wandering around a new city alone
  
• spending some one-on-one time with my camera
• enjoying some peace and quiet
• eating when i want without cooking
• not having to nag children
• sleeping through the night

i will be so tempted to get june's lesson plans done without interruptions, but i will try hard to restrain myself.

twitter-pated

i still can't figure out this whole twitter business and the use of it. but i signed up because i don't have enough uselessness in my life, so get on over and FOLLOW me!

date with the 12 year old

i'm sure everyone knows well enough that mother's day is my LEAST favorite holiday of all. i try every year (without much success) to request no presents. but this year i got a pretty decent gift from luigi. he took me to longwood gardens in pennsylvania (about an hr from us) and treated me to lunch while we were there. no one knows me as well as doc M, but luigi gets it right sometimes. this was definitely my kind of place. i took close to 300 photos and it was definitely a challenge to narrow them down and decide what to share. here they are:

1 conference with a side of kidlessness please...

wow. i've been horrible at the blog this month! it's that photo editing that trips me up. it puts me to sleep. i will forever miss the darkroom! at any rate, here are some shots of what the rest of the fam was up to while i was frantically taking notes for 2 days:

renewed vision

sorry for slacking on the blog posts this past week or so. but i definitely enjoyed my time away from kids and computer while i attended a conference in celebration of the 10th anniversary of The Well-Trained Mind. the 2 days of lectures on homeschooling were heaven sent. i learned TONS of stuff and definitely gained a much-needed sense of reassurance for what i'm doing. i'll be reading and re-reading my notes for months to come. now if i just had an unlimited budget for all those books i want to buy!