by Leslie Sholly | Aug 9, 2018 | family, Knoxville, Parenting, Vacations
School started yesterday. Our summer is over even though there is a month and a half left in the season! There wasn’t a whole lot of time for fun in our last week. It was actually a pretty typical week from one of our other summers–I worked every day and...
by Leslie Sholly | Jul 28, 2018 | family, Knoxville, Parenting, Vacations, Walking in Knoxville
Last week I fell far short of my promised one-fun-thing-per-day promise. I had a good excuse, though–I went to Nashville from Wednesday until Saturday to visit my sister. Emily kindly provided some entertainment for her siblings in my stead, taking them...
by Leslie Sholly | Jul 15, 2018 | Graveyards, homeschooling, Knoxville, Parenting, Vacations
Y’all, it is HOT. And our access to a swimming pool is gone. It is hard to want to leave the air conditioning to have summer adventures, but we managed three days of fun this week. I couldn’t get it together till Wednesday, when we had to leave the house...
by Leslie Sholly | Jul 7, 2018 | family, Knoxville, Parenting, teenagers, Vacations
I’ll admit it–it is harder to have fun all the time than you might think. Honestly, I really, really like sitting at my desk having uninterrupted time to get work done. Leaving the house is stressful, and sandwiching fun in between not only work but also...
by Leslie Sholly | Jun 30, 2018 | family, Parenting, Vacations
Remember when I told y’all that we weren’t doing a 70s summer around here? Well, this week we did our best imitation and as a result this will be a very short post. The reason: POOL. So to me, daily access to a swimming pool is an absolute necessity for...
by Leslie Sholly | Jun 26, 2018 | family, Parenting, Vacations
Our fun summer continued last week with a little less creativity needed on my part, since we were on our actual vacation! We traveled to Beech Mountain, North Carolina, to stay at a timeshare provided by my oldest friend and her family. We had a wonderful time and I...