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Family Gap Year Post #8: Planning Begins (Again)
Those of you who have been around these parts for a while know that I was planning a Family Gap Year to start in June 2020.
We all know the punch line to that joke!
Now that Matt and I are fully vaccinated and our children are nearly vaccinated, we are talking about the possibility of a Family Gap Year again, starting next year.
Here are the things that are different from our original plan:
- We would go to only one country instead of 13. This change makes me the saddest, but I just don’t feel comfortable traveling all around the world spreading germs right now. We can get
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Fall Break Plans: Let’s Get Going!
Why, yes, Fall Break officially starts today and I am just now sitting down to finalize our Fall Break Plans. What can I say? It’s been a really busy year trying to reimagine school for 500 children!
The first glimpse that we might need to shut down school because of COVID-19 happened during the middle of our Spring Break. Since then, we’ve been working non-stop (even through Summer Break). At least I got to do my work from an amazing screened porch off Lake Michigan for a week!
What do I want to be true for our family?
We do best on vacations when there’s a bit of a … Read More
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Family Gap Year Post #7: Starting Over
So the big Family Gap Year is officially completely unraveled! I’m not quite sure why I put an exclamation mark there. Maybe because it was a lot of work to unravel it and I’m glad I was able to get it finished? (Because I am definitely not excited that the trip is dead in the water.)
Every month, we would save money and book an AirBnb. We had booked them in rural Ireland, a small town in the French Riviera called Antibes, a more rural part of Norway outside of Oslo, the hills of Tuscany, Florence, a small medieval town in Croatia, a beachside town in South Africa, a beach … Read More