You Know You're a Homeschooler When....
- A large portion of your school focus is on home ec, work study, and nature study.
- You can take the kids with you to the store (as usual) during the hours when a lot of other people are still at work, or children at school. This makes for less congested store isles and shorter lines at the cash register.
- Your kids don't need a note from the doctor to return to school if they were sick and out of school too long.
- Your 4 yr. old preschooler schools right along with the older kids, and she actually learns stuff. Your classroom doesn't have to be age segregated to flourish.
- Your list of field trips for the school year is getting pretty lengthy.
- Your kids feel sorry for public school kids that get to attend only a field trip or two for the entire school year.
- You can take family vacations off-peak and avoid many of the crowds.
- Your hubby comes home and states he has a business trip coming up, and we get to drop everything and go with him!!!
We are going to travel to Washington D.C. in about a week and a half. We will be there for 4 or 5 days, plus 2 days for driving up and back (that's the part I dread. Yuck!). I am so excited. Ch doesn't go on business trips very often; I can only remember one time when he went to Puerto Rico to check on a truck there. (Well, okay, when he used to drive truck he was gone all the time, but that was different.) Maybe that's why I am so surprised by all of this. About 2 of our sightseeing days will have to be done without hubby. It's a business trip after all (and how lucky we are that the business will be paying for much of the trip, to boot). I figure I can take the kids to the Smithsonian on those 2 days by myself just fine. After all, I survived a very long day at Disney by myself with the kids. (And yes, I plan on posting pictures of that day soon. I've been very busy quilting!)
So, my question for you all: what are some things that are a must see? Should we spend a day with hubby and travel to Williamsburg, or is there so much in D.C. we should just stay put the whole time? Please share. Thanks. I was thinking 2 days at the Smithsonian, and all the monuments. We'll at least drive by the White House. Do they still let people in for a tour? I have no idea what to expect since the 9/11 happenings changed the world as we knew it. I can't remember how old I was when I visited Washington D.C., but it was a very LONG time ago. I'm very excited. Can you tell?
3 comments:
We were in DC very briefly this summer--only about 4 hours. I so wish we had had longer. The only thing we did was go to Arlington National Cemetery and see the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. It was pretty neat. I'm sure you will have a wonderful trip.
That's so exciting! I've never been there.
I believe that Williamsburg is its own trip. We spent a few days just at Williamsburg.
It has been years since we have done DC and never with little ones. Smithsonian and monuments are the way to go.
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