Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Beautifully written short stories, mostly about Indians who've left India for the United States. I found them interesting and hopeful, for the most part.
Most days
It's been interesting learning to balance Vacation Life with Regular Life. Normally when you visit a place, you're there for only a short time, so you pack in as much stuff as possible. For us, that means visiting historical sights and museums, walking miles and miles around a city, eating out, etc. Our Vacation Life speed is actually pretty relaxed, as we've learned that with our large family, it's better to lower expectations than to push ourselves too hard and end up exhausted, cranky, and ready to kill each other. I'm a big fan of lowering expectations! But even with our comparatively relaxed Vacation Speed, we still get tired and it can be quite expensive. It's not a sustainable way to live for more than a few days at a time. So for our Home School Field Trip, we balance the Travel/Sight-Seeing/Culture Days with days of Regular Life.
Gittin' history at Scarborough Castle:
Until fairly recently, a Regular Life day consisted of the kids doing school w…
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