Category: vacation

Photos of 17 Mile Drive and the Carmel Mission

beach, beauty, California, photography, pictures, vacation

You may be tempted to think, “How can you live in California and not be utterly happy all the time from these incredibly beautiful surroundings?” Good question. The unfortunate thing is that I don’t actually live on the beach and see these sights every single day. In fact, I pretty much forget they are there until company comes and we show them around. Most destinations are too hazardous to take on with two pre-schoolers, seeing as how I’d like to […]

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42 Beautiful Photos of Monterey, California

California, family, grandparents, photography, pictures, vacation

Janet took these beautiful photos of Monterey for us. These include the aquarium, the beach, a hotel, a farmer’s market (where we met some parrots), and Cannery Row. Check back tomorrow! I’m planning to upload photos of 17 mile drive, a scenic route that hugs the coast from Pacific Grove to Carmel! Or maybe I’ll do the seal pup photos next…

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20 More Breathtaking Photos of Carmel Valley and Monterey, California

California, funny stories, photography, pictures, vacation

Right now Daniel is washing his hands after his hour-long worm hunt. All he found was a slug, which he tried to bring into my house. Joshua put a hard stop to that. What would I do without Joshua? JD is upstairs NOT napping. Caleb and Joshua are outside playing with a friend. I’m chugging coffee in a last ditch effort to hold on to wakefulness. A friend of mine is out walking, trying to coax her labor pains into a […]

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Field Trip Week: Rose Gardens and Santa Lucia Preserve

4 kids, Classical Conversations, home school, homeschool, vacation

We declared last week “Field Trip Week”, and had ourselves a grand ol’ time. We visited the aquarium, a beautiful rose garden, a robotics show, and Santa Lucia Nature Preserve. The big boys practiced their lines for their upcoming end-of-year parent night, we squeezed in a few math lessons, read a few books, and welcomed Nonna and Aunt Janet to town. *************** Now for stop two on our Week of Adventures: Santa Lucia Preserve This place, located in Carmel Valley, […]

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Stories of Our Boys’ Top 10 Posts of 2015

blog, blogging, Classical Conversations, faith, God, home school, organizing, vacation

2015 was a happy year here, full of it’s own challenges, triumphs, and best of all, adventures. I put together this look back at my 10 most popular posts from the year. By popular, I mean that these are the posts that were read by the largest number of people. First, a few stats from our past year at Stories of Our Boys: You might have read all 156 blog posts. You are reading this from 120 different countries. JenerallyInformed.com was the […]

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The Christmas Miracle, Followed by My Great Christmas Crash

4 kids, Christmas, parenting, vacation

Almost two weeks ago, I set out with my four boys to fly from California to Georgia for Christmas. We managed to arrive in one piece, with all of our luggage, but that was not the miracle. Or maybe that was also a miracle. ha! As I shepherded the four of them, plus myself, our five back-packs, and countless electronic gadgets through the security machines, we followed the rules very nicely, and I counted the heads of my children 300 […]

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4 Powerful Lessons From My Very First Women’s Retreat

answered prayer, Bible, blessings, rest, vacation

This weekend I have ridden a horse, eaten delicious food cooked by other people, and listened to an inspiring speaker, Denise Cunningham. I have grown closer to God and closer to other ladies from my church. Guess what! Our speaker this weekend has a blog too! I’ll give you a link at the bottom of this post. First, you have to read mine.  😉 This retreat was at Wolf Mountain, near Sacramento, California. I want to share a few lessons […]

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A Day at Sea with the Dolphins and the Whales

animals, California, photography, pictures, sea lions, sea mammals, vacation, wildlife

We’re having Field Trip Week at Pacific Christian School. See, Alan is out on Fall break, so the timing is perfect for maximum family fun. First, let me tell you about Abalonetti! This place has an exciting local’s menu, food that every single one of my children like (as in yes, they have pizza), and delicious sea food. I’m the kind of person that picks a favorite restaurant and then stops going to all other places. I have now picked […]

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10 Reasons I Love to be the Hostess

California, friends, hosting, pictures, vacation

We do something that is a little outside the norm. We love to host out-of-town guests. We practically beg people to come visit. We have hosted friends from high school, college, tons of family, work friends, church friends, and even new friends. We do it a lot less now that we live on the other side of the country from almost everyone we know. When we lived in the DC area, we had a constant stream of people stopping through. […]

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Angry Bird

friends, parenting, summer, toddlers, vacation

So we flew back to California (via Southwest). No, those were not our flight attendants. That’s just my friend Jennings and one of her fellow stewardesses. Actually, Jennings has informed me that “no one says stewardess anymore.” We had a fairly uneventful day in the air. No horror stories to share with you this time. Either we’re getting better at this, or God is just having mercy. Now our friends are here, and the staycation portion of Summer break has […]

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