Impromptu Unschooling Blog Carnival

This is a really fun-to-read, inspiring bunch of blog posts. Ronnie has most of them linked in the comments at her post at Blog of the Zombie Princess.

Inspired by Flo's delicious post here. It's an impromptu blog carnival! Join in!

I'm that mom who drives 500 miles because her kids want to see their friends, because her kids don't feel like riding the train again, because her kids want to go now instead of in a couple of weeks when the trip could be combined with another trip. I'm that mom who knows it's a frivolous, indulgent, even "stupid" thing to do but does it anyway.

A Few Recent Pictures to Share

My brother and his wife and adorable kids are in town visiting. We went bowling one day--

We've got bluebird babies about ready to fledge. The parents are waiting to feed them.

And we've always got something interesting happening down at the chicken coop.

This poor little hen was attacked by a fox but I think I disturbed it and ran it off before it could kill her. She had a huge bruise on her neck/back, which is looking much better. She can move all appendages and her neck. She just won't sit or stand up. So we're nursing her back, hoping she just needs to recover from bruising. Kind of a hysterical picture though. :) Sometimes we go to see her and she's managed to push herself onto her back. Not how you normally picture a living chicken!

And this is one of our handsome roosters.

July Blog Carnival--Night Life

This month's carnival by Enjoy Life Unschooling is about Night Life:

JULY 2010 THEME – SLEEPLESSNESS

For July the topic for our blog carnival is: burning the midnight oil, unschooling sleep and sleeplessness. Posts from seasoned and new unschoolers are welcome.

If you like to work from writing prompts here are some questions to get you going:

• What are some of your favorite late night adventures?
• Ever had your kids want to do or talk about something late at night?
• Did you transition to “no bedtimes” or did it all flow naturally?
• How and where does everyone sleep? Family bed? Musical beds?
• How do you and your spouse get “quality time” together?
• How do you get your personal needs met when kids are “up all night”?
• When visiting family and friends, do you get questions or unpleasant comments? How do you deal?

The deadline for submissions is June 28 – please send links to your submissions to enjoylifeunschooling@gmail.com.

Look forward to reading your stories!
The crew at Enjoy Life Unschooling

There are a bunch of great posts to read over there:

"This month we have several posts from unschooling bloggers about bed times, sleep, and nighttime fun. They are tales of adventure, informative pieces, personal stories and thoughts of perspective shifts."