Year: 2017

When those fancy travel agencies try to entice you to buy a package to Thailand, they usually use pictures similar to this:   Well, I’m here to tell you it’s not fake, that’s really what it looks like, and...

When I give constructive criticism to the girls I try to use the “Oreo” technique. This technique suggests that you couch the criticism in between two positives, like the white part of an Oreo in between the two chocolate...

We had such a wonderful day with the elephants that we decided to learn even more about these animals. Pooping is a big part of their lives so we decided to make it a part of ours! Fellow MomSchooler...

We love malls. In a new country, it’s usually our first outing. “Let’s to to the mall!” says Dan. There are rarely any objections. Malls represent a very easy entry into the new culture. You can walk around aimlessly...

We made new friends last week. Deborah is a fellow Worldschooling mom who has been travelling with her two daughters for the last 7 months. You can tell the two families hit it off because we have seen them...

We love our new house. Every day at least one member of the family does a little sigh and says, “This is such a nice house”. We’ve even baptized the house with the first batch of chocolate chip cookies....

For the first time since mid-January, my bathroom bag is fully unpacked. It’s been a wild ride from Spain to South Africa, through Dubai and then back to Europe, but now we get to stop for awhile (6 months...

We made it! We have arrived in Thailand! We had a long but somewhat uneventful transit from Milan, Italy to Chiang Mai, Thailand. The entire process door to door took over 24 hours and we counted 2 sunsets and...