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Spring at Last, Spring at Last

Finally, Spring is in full effect here in the ‘burgh.

We’ll be having Pancakes at Midnight tomorrow night to kind of kick things off, if you will.

I’ve got seedlings who need to get into the ground.

We’re working on getting some poorly placed and unsightly bushes removed to make way for some blueberry bushes and a nice little sitting area, complete with bench.

We are stashing money to attend the Northeast Unschooling Conference. My in-laws might actually be joining us this year — will be great for them.

We’ve completely rearranged the first and basement floors of our house to suit our needs better. The flow of the house is SO much better now. The second floor is going to have its time at well, but not quite yet.

I’ve been contemplating what needs to be done out in our backyard to start to set up a permaculture garden and forest (to incorporate the small white pine forest that we already have).

I am becoming more and more in love with the concept of yardsharing. I have some lovely friends who might be game for sharing yard space and or having produce swaps.

We signed up for a different CSA this year. Instead of going through Kretschmann’s Farm, we’ll be going through Penn’s Corner Farm Alliance. We just wanted to try something different this year and save a little money in the process. I’m sure I’ll be doing my best to take and post pictures of our weekly shares.

I am going to try to start having unschooling park dates again, but over at Brighton Heights Park and not up in Sewickley. This park is just up the hill on Benton Avenue from our house on Parviss Street. It just got too difficult to organize transportation to make it to Sewickley once a week, among other reasons for me stopping the meet-ups last year.

Elijah has been using WarioWare D.I.Y. to make a bunch of microgames. He’s becoming quite the game designer between D.I.Y. on his DS and Little Big Planet level editor for PSP.

Elijah has also found a love for the periodic table of elements…I hung one up and he’s been looking at and studying it ever since!

I’ll be selling some of my handmade goodies and clothing at a neighbourhood flea market on Saturday, June 5th.

Our street (3800 block of Parviss Street, 15212) will be having it’s street-wide yard sale on Saturday, June 26th.

We’ll be hosting the 2nd Annual Ice Cream Social Warfare at our home again this Summer on Sunday, June 27th and we hope to see you there!

Back in April, we went to Oklahoma City, OK to visit friends and family that we haven’t seen in almost 5 years. It was nice to see people, but I don’t miss the place at all…I’m quite at home here in the ‘burgh.

There’s more. There’s always more :-)

 

2009 Northeast Unschooling Conference in Pictures pt. 2

:: Lego Funshop ::

:: Lego Funshop ::

:: New Friends ::

:: New Friends ::

:: Noodle Battle ::

:: Noodle Battle ::

:: Battleship ::

:: Battleship ::

:: Music & Singing ::

:: Music & Singing ::

:: Presentations & Discussions ::

:: Presentations & Discussions ::

:: The Internet ::

:: The Internet ::

Part 1 can be found here and the farewell picnic pictures can be found here.

 

2009 Northeast Unschooling Conference in Pictures pt. 1

:: gaming ::

:: gaming ::

play/dress-up room

:: play/dress-up room ::

:: Beautiful Flower ::

:: Beautiful Flower ::

:: Photography Funshop ::

:: Photography Funshop ::

:: Robot Arm ::

:: Robot Arm ::

:: The Free Runners ::

:: The Free Runners ::

:: Sleeper ::

:: Sleeper ::

:: Bananagrams ::

:: Bananagrams ::

:: Killer Pompoms ::

:: Killer Pompoms ::

I went through all 900 pictures that I took and picked out a few good ones and some random ones. This is part 1, part 2 can be found here and the picnic can be found here.

 

Northeast Unschooling Conference 2009

We will set out around midnight Tuesday night on our drive to Wakefield (Boston), MA for the Northeast Unschooling Conference.

We’ll be checking in one day early on Wednesday, so if you are checking in early too and want to hang out or nap together (!), look for us…we’ll be following a wild-haired 5 year old boy who will most likely be in striped pyjamas…oh, wait, doesn’t that narrow it down to most unschoolers?! I’ll be checking my email until about 5PM Tuesday, so if you want my cell phone number to track me down in Boston, drop me an email (PghMidwife @ naturalattachment dot com).

I’ll try to blog at least once during the trip, but no guarantees. I will do some tweeting (though only with my phone & I only follow William on my phone…don’t think I don’t love you if you don’t get a reply from me personally). We’ll have tons of photos & film footage to comb over when we get back, but don’t you worry, I’ll post up highlights of our trip and plenty of memorexed moments.

We’re looking forward to this conference. I am going to get to meet a lot of really awesome people in the flesh. I won’t be checking my email, so you’ll just have to wait, because this is one week of my life that is more important than just about every thing else that goes on in the rest of the world. Getting to spend almost an entire week with nothing but famlies living their lives in Freedom, Freedom from school and mainstream parenting…purely heaven. It will be nice to not have to explain myself or my choices every time I turn around…instead of preaching to the choir, I’ll get to sing with them and Shine with them.

Can’t wait! Hope to see you there.

 

Unschooling Cruise 2009 – We are so there

That’s right, a cruise to Bermuda for Unschoolers and their friends and family!

What are you going to do…

…with your tax return next year? William, Elijah and I know what we are going to do with ours. We are going to spend 5 nights on a cruise ship leaving port from the New York Harbor and heading out to Bermuda. We’ll be on this cruise ship surrounded by families, which many have become good friends with us through the internet and in real life. What do all these families have in common with us? They are all Unschooling families; they are all raising free and unschooled children.

What better way to spend time than with us on a family cruise and be able to fully immerse yourself into the daily interactions of families living in harmony with one another and following along with their children’s passions in life. The cruise will have all the usual trappings of  Royal Caribbean cruises, is only for Unschoolers and their friends and family and will have Unschooling conference lectures and discussion panels — all of the lectures/discussions are optional.

We would love it if you could come on this cruise with us. We think it would be a fantastic family vacation and a way for you to learn heaps about how we live our lives.

Here’s the website for the cruise with all pertinent information: http://www.unschoolingontheseas.com
You will need a current Passport for this adventure: http://travel.state.gov/passport/get/get_840.html

And if you’re interested in reading more about Unschooling:
http://www.naturalattachment.com/wordpress/category/education/radical-unschooling-education/ (my blog posts specifically about unschooling)
http://sandradodd.com/seeingit
http://www.borntoexplore.org/unschool/whatis.htm
http://www.borntoexplore.org/unschool/Uncurriculum.htm
http://joyfullyrejoycing.com/unschooling/unschoolingphilosophy.html

 

Radical Unschooling Camp or Community?

I know, I know, there are already a handful of conference type gatherings for Unschoolers, but what if, year round maybe, there was a magical place set in a rich natural environment where we could all hang out and vacation or hell, why don’t we just all move there?

Zenmomma’s hubby Jon has an Idea.

What do you think? Let him know and add your ideas as well.

 
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