by Leslie Sholly | Jun 7, 2019 | Catholicism, family, Knoxville, teenagers, Vacations
Remember last summer, when I treated my kids to near-daily adventures from the first day of break to the last? I sure do, both because it was fun and because it seems like it happened a few weeks ago instead of a year ago. But if you think I am getting ready to tell...
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 | Aug 4, 2018 | Knoxville, Parenting, teenagers
It was the second to last full week of summer break, and my pace was slowing, but we still had some fun times! On Tuesday we had breakfast at Nick and J’s, a former Waffle House now locally owned and serving breakfast and lunch, with the most enormous pancakes I...
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...