Welcome to our family blog! These are the chronicles of our family, as we practice our deep faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, travel around the world, educate our family at home, and raise birth and adoptive children. Please feel free to leave comments!
Giving our children a global education is our educational goal for our children, and we live different than most to accomplish this goal. Here is a short break down of our travel experiences so far:
In 1976 Marmee moved to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia with her family. The next year they drove a VW bus from Dhahran to the Rhine Valley and back. It took them three months! In 1978 they visited India, Nepal, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Hawaii. They visited Europe again in 1982 and then Hong Kong, China and South Korea in 1983. (That is a total of 35 countries folks!)
Da served an LDS mission in Buenos Aires, Argentina for two years and visited Peru and the Virgin Islands with his parents on his way home.
When Marmee and Da married in 1988 they took a fabulous Honeymoon to Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, Alberta, Canada.
Since those early years Marmee has returned to China 3 times. Da has also visited China twice, and visited Thialand and Japan on tour with his MBA group. He visited England, Australia and Montreal, Quebec, Canada over the years through various work projects. We have dragged our children to 17 States and Washington D.C. They spent a month traveling China in 2006, visiting their orphanages and with foster families. They also lived on Kauai for three month with their Yeye and Nainai. We’ve just begun folks!
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Hi Anne
My name is Belinda Letchford and I just read a comment you made over at Jimmie’s blog about how you do apologia. You said you are reading apologia’s book out loud and then do the experiments with dad on the weekend. I’ve just started reading it out loud to my girls too and I’m wondering how you move on from the experiments (as the explanations etc) are there in the text and then recap on the weekend with dad. That sounds like a great idea but how? when it is so integrated. Do you just miss the experiment and explanation in the read aloud?
No doubt you have a simple way of doing this and I’m complicating things but I would be interested in hearing from you.
Belinda