Spring Break Vacations for Homeschooling Families

Associated Content ^ | February 4, 2009 | Dr. T. L. Montgomery

[SnakeDoctor]

We’ll probably eventually visit during peak season again ... we don’t homeschool, so we’ll have to go during summer break. But, I very much look forward to my wife and I going during wintertime again when the kids are grown.

SnakeDoc

[Tax-chick]

I was thinking you might be a herpet-vet, but then I checked your profile. Oh, well.

[ChocChipCookie]

Disney World has two special events during their semi-off season that we just love. They have a flower and gardening event in the spring and their Food & Wine Festival in the fall is wonderful! Both are great times to visit. We won’t be going back this year unless things really turn around for us, but we love DisneyWorld, especially EPCOT. Very educational!!

[Peanut Gallery]

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[stainlessbanner]

I'm with you on the battlefields. I like vacations and trips that allow us to see American history. I like out of the way places, too - no crowds.

I sat next to a gal on the plane last year. Took her family (husband and two-kids) to the mouse house. The 7-day pkg on property set her back about $7k.

[Hazwaste]

I cannot recommend an off-season Disney vacation highly enough.

We did this back in October '96 when the kids were little. It was great. My wife and I trotted without stopping all the way from the entrance of Space Mountain to an empty car. The kids got to ride all the rides they wanted without waiting in a line.

[GeronL]

homeschool while its still legal!

[Tax-chick]

My parents, who live near Orlando, have taken some of our children to Disney World and the other parks. Since they offerred, and paid for everything, it’s fine with me. We’ve been to Myrtle Beach because my mother-in-law lives there, and it’s convenient for other relatives to join us for a few hours or several days.

Lake Norman is only an hour away; we just want to get away from home for a while, it doesn’t have to be far.

[P8riot]

We live in the Richmond area, so Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown are no big deal for us. As a matter of fact, my wife's sister's family lives in Yorktown, and we visit quite often.

In the spring we like to visit my in-laws in Tucson when the weather is fairly pleasant, and usually stay home in the summer.

[Antoninus]

Battlefields are usually my first choice.

Mine too. Always loved Gettysburg as a kid. Just an awesome place. I grew up a stone's throw from Valley Forge. Not as much ambiance there as Gettysburg, but still way cool.

[Antoninus]

I'd almost rather take a vacation in Baghdad than in Orlando.

I definitely would. The amount of history there is staggering. Maybe when the kids get older....

[Tax-chick]

My father, brother and I used to camp at state parks (in a variety of states) and we always visited any battlefields that were around. I hear they’ve really worked on Appomattox and some of the other Virginia sites since the 1980s. Maybe we can find a rental property in a central location in a few years, and do Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville/Wilderness, and all those in one visit. Or get back to Chattanooga/Chickamauga, as we’ve been saying we would since 2003. Before Bill starts college!

[Waryone]

We homeschooled in Orlando. In all the years we homeschooled, the mouse house was never on the list of places to go. We bought many year passes to Sea World however and had wonderful times there.

[aberaussie]

It’s harder to plan now that we’ve got one in college, but she has a certain allowance for excused absences, if she gets her work turned in. I’m trying to persuade her to stay home, go to school, and take care of all the pets, but she’s not going for it.

Heh, heh...one of the perks of having grown kids living at home! I'm going to hate it when our recent college grad goes off to graduate school. Right now he is living here saving money - and taking care of pets when we go off! ;-)

You're expecting number nine? Did I get that right? Congratulations!

[Tax-chick]

Yes, we’re expecting our 9th in early June. Oldest will 18 in March. As I am not the person who got us all the reptiles and the dog, I’m going to make my husband and kids find minders for them. One of *my* friends will feed *my* catz :-).

[scottteng]

Yes a visit to the mouse is mandatory but Epcot has some actual educational stuff don’t forget to sign up for the backstage tour of the Land. They make special deals for us Florida residents. Other must see’s in Florida Edison’s winter home, any number of botanical gardens and the space center. We take off November and December to have more pleasant weather for doing stuff rather than the summer when being cooped up inside with the AC is preferable. They each get a week or two off to attend summer camps.

[aberaussie]

I looked at your pictures. What a beautiful family! We have four and our non-homeschool friends think that is a lot. We are just average amongst homeschoolers, of course!

[aberaussie]

I looked at your pictures. What a beautiful family! We have four and our non-homeschool friends think that is a lot. We are just average amongst homeschoolers, of course!

[kinsman redeemer]

yes. 3-4 days.

[Tax-chick]

Thanks! It’s a zoo (literally), but I can’t think of anything else I was going to do with my life that would be this much fun.