Hell’s Half Acre

Today I attempted to connect with other unschoolers on an email list and was told that since Jesse went to Kindie (his choice; I SO TRIED to talk him out of it) I couldn’t call myself an unschooler for this and many other reasons.  Honestly, I don’t really care for labels.  I was, however, looking [...]

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We finally made it to Bead Beach! I had to wake the boys from a deep sleep at 2pm, but they were happy to be included. They only stayed up to 5am this morning. We used to go to Beach Beach somewhat frequently until Hurricane Dean last year, and then all the [...]

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Fourteen years ago I became a mother and my life changed so profoundly, I hardly recognize the woman I was before. I hadn’t planned on motherhood at 34; when I was 9 I remember very clearly telling my grandmother that I would NEVER marry or have children. She wisely told me I’d change [...]

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Well, the great dog experiment 2008 was an awful failure. She is a WONDERFUL, smart, loving doggie but Jamie is allergic and we have suspicions that Sissy is also. It isn’t a mild allergy either, so after 2 nights here he bravely told the kids that she’d have to go back to the [...]

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Ha!  Not a chance!  But I was heartened to find that while I still need to perform a fine tooth combing of November and December, we spent only around $33K last year.  Of course, that doesn’t include palapa costs.  A quick perusal of the palapa spreadsheet shows we spent about $8200 on the palapa renovation [...]

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I wrote the beginning of this post in my head this morning which means it is now completely and utterly lost now that I have a moment to update the blog. Sigh. One of these days I’ll remember to write the damn thing down.
Pike is still down. When the doctor came by [...]

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except for the price. Today we had the joy of experiencing the US health care system. If you’ve been following the pictures in Flickr, you will have seen that the boys are exploring skateboarding. Some of you may have seen the future from the first picture but I was not among you. [...]

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The flooding in Tabasco has been a ghost hovering about my days but my mind has turned ADD since we landed; hopping from one idea to the next, distracted by billboards and books. I almost always drive in Mexico and Jamie has been doing a lot of driving here in the US. [...]

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He was the first of the kids to bring us into the homebirth journey and two more followed him. He arrived on a day after many days of heat. We called it a heatwave, and being in the SF Bay Area, we considered the high 80’s horrific heat. He refused [...]

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If love is like a rollercoaster, then our life lately has been in a non-stop Groundhog Day of E-ticket rides. We consider, drop the idea, consider again, drop and look around to see if anyone is filming “Groundhog Day”. We seriously looked at the possibility of investing in PaaMul and spending the [...]

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