a sabbatical year

I have been following for a while now, the journey this beautiful family started almost one year ago. -A sabbatical year to explore a big chunk of this amazing world-.

This is a family of six. Mom, Dad and 4 kiddos who one summer day left their home in London and decided they wanted to experience other cultures, different landscapes, colors, foods and everything else in the middle, "embracing the simple and the slow", as their blog states.

It takes a lot of courage, energy and inspiration. It really does. It is so difficult to leave your comfort zone, -it is for me-. Imagine to pull your kids out of school and out of all their routines; say goodbye to friends and daily familiarity and just take off and explore for a whole year.

But what an adventure. I can’t even imagine how many beautiful memories for the rest of their lives and what a deep, positive transformation for a kid; what a gift to see the world, to experience other ways of life, to be out there an just experience. Seriously, what a gift to those kids.
What an inspiration for me to read this woman’s blog as well.

Take a look at her pictures and blog, you’ll love it.

source: all pictures belong to somewhereslower.com

Kindergarten

It seems we have finally found a school we really like for D. to start elementary school next fall. I know, it seems so early to start the process, but in order to pick the school we really wanted we needed to start this early. What a relief. What a big relief. We toured at least 10 schools in the last 2 months. In our district, out of our district, public schools and private schools, charter schools and whatever's left in the middle, and somehow there was always something that didn't click to me when touring all those schools. All of them -btw- with very high scores and super nice reviews, but still, there was something that didn't convince me. It happened the same to me when I was looking for preschools for D. two years ago. I visited many, until I went to one that felt right to me instantly, it felt right in my heart. And that was how I felt yesterday morning when we visited the very last school in our list to tour, it felt right. I liked the school, thank God, I liked

Copenhagen

I've had this city in my mind for a while. Never been there, but every time I research about trips to Europe I bump into a Copenhagen article, link, photo and I get more and more interested and excited about this city. In pictures it just looks like the kind of city I like. Here my inspiration for today Friday, a few photos of gorgeous Copenhagen. All photos by: littlescandinavian.com (one of my favorite blogs). Happy weekend. Healthy and peaceful.

Worth taking a look

some new findings I adore. 5 blogs I just discovered. (all the pictures belong to the blogs featured on this post) mynotebook-moa.blogspot.com http://littlescandinavian.com/ http://mylittleday.fr/blog/ http://abutterflyinyourhouse.blogspot.com/ http://kidshaus.typepad.com/kidshaus/

things I like

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