{"id":5083,"date":"2011-03-09T20:26:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T01:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=5083"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:12:13","slug":"5083","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/5083\/","title":{"rendered":"There are times"},"content":{"rendered":"

when I wish I was a home-schooling mom. Or even an un-schooling mom. Believe me, I have read lots and lots about both.
\nBack when I only had two kids, it was something I tossed around. I read every book by John Holt<\/a> I could get my hands on. It was something that I really believed in, yet didn’t know if I personally had what it takes to make it work.<\/p>\n

My mom is a retired teacher, so I know that some teachers really do care. We live in one of the best school districts in our state, yet still…. If I didn’t think my kids actually preferred to go to school, I would probably keep them home.<\/p>\n

What I long for is the freedom. To live life around our own schedule, to experience different things and people. See family that we don’t get to see very often.<\/p>\n

Because soon enough- jobs and life obligations will dictate what these kiddos can do. I want them to enjoy their youth. It only happens once and we all know how fast it goes.<\/p>\n

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One of the best parts about going to Orlando was hooking up with my Aunt Jo and my cousin J (with Cole on his shoulders)<\/p>\n

My kids had sooo much fun with them. It was such a great day. I can’t even begin to tell you how great it was to have J there. He is such a natural with the kids and helped us so much.<\/p>\n

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The Magic Kingdom<\/p>\n

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Austin asked “do you think if we moved to Orlando people would come to see us?” which cracked me up. No one comes to visit us in Ohio except grandparents, we always have to go to them.<\/p>\n

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I think for sure we would get more visitors.<\/p>\n

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Who doesn’t love Florida?<\/p>\n

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This girly sure did!<\/p>\n

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The haunted mansion, one of our fave rides<\/p>\n

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Eva and Aunt Jo<\/p>\n

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\"Epcot<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ok I will wrap it up tomorrow. It’s been a long gloomy rainy day and my head hurts. Missing the sunshine!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

when I wish I was a home-schooling mom. Or even an un-schooling mom. Believe me, I have read lots and lots about both. Back when I only had two kids, it was something I tossed around. I read every book by John Holt I could get my hands on. It was something that I really believed in, yet didn’t know if I personally had what it takes to make it work. My mom is a retired teacher, so I know that some teachers really do care. We live in one of the best school districts in our state, yet still…. If I didn’t think my kids actually preferred to go to school, I would probably keep them home. What I long for is the freedom. To live life around our own schedule, to experience different things and people. See family that we don’t get to see very often. Because soon enough- jobs and life obligations will dictate what these kiddos can do. I want them to enjoy their youth. It only happens once and we all know how fast it goes. One of the best parts about going to Orlando was hooking up with my Aunt Jo and my cousin J (with Cole on his shoulders) My kids had sooo much fun with them. It was such a great day. I can’t even begin to tell you how great it was to have J there. He is such a natural with the kids and helped us so much. The Magic Kingdom Austin asked “do you think if we moved to Orlando people would come to see us?” which cracked me up. No one comes to visit us in Ohio except grandparents, we always have to go to them. I think for sure we would get more visitors. Who doesn’t love Florida? This girly sure did! The haunted mansion, one of our fave rides Eva and Aunt Jo Ok I will wrap it up tomorrow. It’s been a long gloomy rainy day and my head hurts. Missing the sunshine!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[202,277,356,452,516,681],"class_list":["post-5083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-travel","tag-disney","tag-florida","tag-home-schooling","tag-magic-kingdom","tag-orlando","tag-unschooling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_8117-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19073,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083\/revisions\/19073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}