Sundays off

...but where to go with 5 active kids?

So wish I knew.

I am leaning towards the lake, even though Zari's pretty anxious to get us back to Saratoga to the Children's Museum.  I'd like to us to get to any number of interesting locales - Poughkeepsie, Storm King, even the bike guy in Delmar - but I don't think the babies will handle it without screams.

Wishing we could live where we do, but still have access to a subway station.

Tripping...

Hah!  That title could mean so much, eh?

So I have been planning some road tripping, as well as working to fill up a shared Google calendar so we have lots of plans available this fall and winter, provided our old van can stay running.

Lots going on in Springfield, MA.  Really wanting to figure out a way to get us to MakerFaire in NYC in mid September, and trying to brainstorm some cool things to do with Perin for his birthday.

There's also lots of places close enough in the Berkshires, I think - so I am planning to check there next for fodder for our calendar.

Must start getting everyone's IHIPs ready, too.  Next year, Perin will need an IHIP - starting to breathe deep lately when I consider how I'll get three quarterlies done four times a year.

Rowan and Keena are sleeping better at night - I wish I was.  Might have to swallow my pride and just take the antibiotics.  Being sick and/or in pain does not make for a cheerful, helpful, supportive unschooling parent, I've found.

One things that I've been thinking about lately comes from Sandra Dodd's column.  Can't remember the exact quote, but the gist of it suggests that bits of trivia, constantly sampled, allows us to eventually build models of our world and its systems.  Is that true?  Is that a better way to learn most things, by sampling bits and pieces of the world, little nuggets of interesting trivia, and then constructing models?  Perhaps that's exactly how we all learn anyway, despite a system that wants us to learn about the world linearly.

What next?

Been wondering and worrying about how to make life interesting, without transportation these last weeks, and without much money to take us anywhere, even if we did have a car.

Plus, Perin's birthday is coming up, and it would be cool to do something really fun.  Like I wish there was a butterfly pavilion for frogs.  That would be really cool.

Also would really like to go to the MakerFaire in NYC in late September.  It is precisely when everyone gets their first cold of the season, though, so I am a bit worried.  Plus, finding replacements for Jason at the store is a huge headache.

Our August weekend

So our plans have become a bit muddled, mostly because of our van situation - it hasn't been running well for a while, and now it's at the shop again, hopefully being fixed.  So we are shelving plans to hit the road and have come up with alternative plans that don't involve as much travel.

Zoom Flume tomorrow - which is all the kids really wanted to do this weekend anyway. And hopefully a trip to the bike shop and REI on Sunday.  Maybe I'll get around to posting pictures...