Doodle Doings

As Sloopy and Daisy settled in to caring for their puppies, I found myself becoming increasingly overwhelmed by the home schooling schedule combined with my other responsibilities.  In addition to the house and kids and puppies, I am also a massage therapist and work office hours with clients around those other tasks.  It’s a lot of…….stuff!

The program I chose for schooling for my kids at home is an online charter school that is a combination of ‘virtual’ computer work and traditional book work.  To say I was not enjoying the process would be a vast understatement. Since the pups were at ages where they were stable, and the moms were doing most of the work, I decided to pass the puppy responsibilities on to my dog-sitter (thanks Erica!).  I would take advantage of the scheduling flexibility that this type of schooling afforded, and take my kids on a trip.  We packed the camping stuff and headed to Assateague Island.

Pony on Assateague Island

Bonfire on the beach

Westwood Doodle on the Dunes!

It was a good week, although we did not stay as long as we had planned due to the arrival of a real ‘Nor’easter’ in the middle of the week.  We knew it would be arriving from conversations with the park rangers, and got off the island just as it started to rain.  I later spoke with someone who stayed (in a camper) through the storm and she said it was a good thing we tent campers headed out when we did!