Field Trip Wars – Round Three…or the One Where H-T Nearly Bought It

Did I mention in my last post that we were on vacation for TWO days?  Well, that means that there was still one entire blog post to be squeezed out of that little excursion.  On our second day of rest and relaxation (ha!), we headed into the edges of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, [...]

Field Trip Wars – Round Two

Firefly Mom really pulled out all the guns for her last homeschool field trip, and even got a picture of a big old pile of bear poo.  I threw up the white flag on that one. But I wasn’t daunted for long.  I secretly knew that I had a two day mini-vacay coming up that [...]

Learning and Lollygagging

My buddy, Firefly Mom, who blogs over at Pack of Hungry Snails is BIG on field trips.  If you ever had feelings of inadequacy about not doing enough homeschool field trips, then I BEG OF YOU not to frequent her blog, because you’ll basically want to hang up your homeschool uniform, take your bat and [...]

That’s What She Said

I can’t say I’m a regular viewer of the show “The Office.”  I’ve probably seen maybe four or five full episodes, and maybe snippets of at least five more.  But the characters and the catch phrases have become part of the current culture, so that even if you have never viewed a single episode, you [...]

Visual Learners and Beached Whales

I think I’ve blogged about the fact that H-T is a visual learner.  He is actually a visual AND kinesthetic learner, but I think the visual part may take precedence. So I’m always looking for great learning tools for the visual learner, and I happened upon one this week that I wanted to share.  It’s [...]

Looking for a Tour Guide?

The Topsies have company!  In what is an absolutely appropriate turn of events for a tech-geek, Uber developed a relationship with one of his classmates at the virtual reality school he has attended the last couple of years.  He and she became really close over this school year and began “dating” online sometime after the [...]

Leaf Peeping

Sunday, October 12, 2008. It was one of those perfect afternoons.  The kind you wish you could hit the “Pause” button on.  The weather was between 60-65 degrees, and a jacket felt just right. As we headed further and further up in elevation, the sights were getting more and more spectacular.  I was tempted to [...]

A Nice Place To Visit, But I Wouldn’t Wanna Live There

I’m referring of course to Las Vegas.  Sin City.  Entertainment capital of the World.  What happens there, stays there.  You know the one.  Well, Uber and I went.  We experienced.  We played.  And we returned.  And although for him, it was the “trip of a lifetime”, for me, I would have to say it was [...]

Jet Lag + First Day of School = OMG squared

Look who’s back!  After an overnight flight on which I got about one hour of sleep, I got back home yesterday at a little after 10 a.m.  I would not be exaggerating to say that I spent the rest of the day and night in bed, and no, R-T doesn’t have an extra spring in [...]

WISH it worked for me Wednesday

I love the Works For Me posts over at RocksinmyDryer.typepad.com, but since not much ever works correctly around the Topsy-Techie household, I thought I would talk about what I WISHED worked… Case in point: Using my son’s Wii Remote as an All-Purpose Remote Tool     Thanks to a blogging buddy’s Teaching and Learning Spanish blog, I [...]