Today I have a guest post for you on the topic of important considerations for your homeschooling decision. This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart, as we have homeschooled at our house several different years, in a couple of different ways. There was so much that went into this decision. Our expert today is here to share with us what we should think about when we are making this important decision. Going to school is the norm for most children. However, it doesn’t always have to be. Homeschooling is the legal alternative to sending your kid to a traditional school. In homeschooling ..read more

Did you know 2024 year is an important year for the D.C. Cherry Blossom Festival? It is the last year before major sea wall renovations force the park service to take down over one hundred and fifty trees. Don’t worry. Trees will be re-planted. This legitimately needs to be done due to flooding on one side of the Tidal Basin. It isn’t the entire Tidal Basin that is flooding. It’s just the area on one side of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, which I will show you further down in the post. I wanted to go down there and see it before it becomes a construction zone. walkers around the cherry blossom ..read more

Last year my cousin Amber sent me a VHS video clip of an interview she did with our Maw-Maw back in the 1990s. In this video, Maw-Maw told us there is a cabin in Tannehill State Park that once belonged to our great-great grandparents. Once I learned we have an ancestral home on display in Birmingham, Alabama, I knew we had to go check this out! My kids love it so much when I drag them out on these sorts of adventures. Ha!! No, they hate it when I make them go exploring with me, but they lived. Plus, I think they even enjoyed it a little bit, whether they admit it or not. Our extended family ..read more

On the last day before our flight out of Italy, Alan and I needed to get from halfway up the boot in Naples, down to the island boot tip of Sicily, to fly out of Naval Air Station Sigonella. Our whole vacation was built around our military space available flights. To learn more about flying to Italy using military space A, if you are active duty or retired, click here. All of the flights back to the U.S. were leaving out of Sigonella that Sunday. Meanwhile, we were still up in Naples. Originally, we hoped to fly commercially from Naples to Sicily. Flights were not much more expensive than the ..read more

Today I have an expert guest post from the field of fire rescue! He is here to share with us what it takes to become a fire rescue officer. As I and many of my readers have older teenagers and young adults, I thought this is a relevant and interesting career path to learn about! Building a Career as a Fire Rescue Officer Being a firefighter is a noble profession, but it is not easy and neither is the process of becoming one. You will face immense competition, and the entire hiring process can be very challenging. This is not something a lot of people succeed at, and over 70% of the applicants ..read more

If you visited this website in the past eleven days, you might have seen a disaster scene, a blank website, a ghost town. But I have good news. As you can see, I am back in business. When my website crashed, I learned quite a few lessons through the process of trying to get storiesofourboys.com back up. I am going to tell you all about it. For eleven whole days, storiesofourboys.com was wiped off the face of the internet. It started on January nineteenth. I woke up to error messages. I had no idea why. After twelve hours of trying to figure it out, I investigated my older wordpress.com versio ..read more

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If you follow both of my websites, you know that I did a top ten list for Gettingmyacttogether.com last week. I would never just shun my original website by not giving it a “Top 10 Most Popular” post too. Over the past couple of years, I have tried to take storiesofourboys.com into a more focused direction. Y’all know I started out blogging about parenting four boys, and my oldest son was absolutely not having it. He was right. You can only put so much on the internet about your real life. I tend to be an open book, so I had to be reminded of this. Since then I have moved on to other topics ..read more

Today we are talking about my favorite place in the world: the beach! We have a guest travel writer here to tell us all about different beach recommendations in the U.S. If the COVID-19 pandemic proved anything, it was the adventurous traveling spirit of the average American. As soon as draconian stay-at-home measures were lifted, people packed their suitcases, bought plane tickets for the entire family, and traveled. We not only go to the many stunning oceanfront properties in the U.S. but also to hotspots in Europe, Central and South America, and Asia. After two years of a grueling pandemic ..read more

Today I want to share with y’all my new favorite online stores. These stores have cute stuff, perfect for your Christmas list. #1. Marley Lilly is the most fun place to shop online. I am not sponsored by Marley Lilly, nor am I an affiliate. This does not make me any money to say this. I just love this place. You can order anything monogrammed from Marley Lilly, and it does not come all the way from China! This stuff is monogrammed for you, in South Carolina. When I first found this site, I may or may not have spent quite a bit of time pinning and wishing. This store has the CUTEST stuff!!! I’m ..read more