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Who’s feeling anxious about back to school? . I

Who’s feeling anxious about back to school?
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I know that I would be if we had our kids enrolled in school right now. Overseeing hours of online schooling AND trying to work too? That’s tough!
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If there’s ever a time to start homeschooling, now’s the time.
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I am not knocking traditional school. All the teachers in my life are amazing people who truly are dedicated to helping their students learn. But our experience of homeschooling our kids has made me realize that we don’t need to put our kids in five+ hours of school each day in order for them to learn.
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Maybe there’s a happy medium? Online schooling, but only for 1-1.5 hours a day? Breaking up classrooms into smaller groups so that teachers can give more focused attention?
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It’s time to rethink how we can learn in this digital age. For our family, we’ve found that mixing up screen time with non-screen time (like outdoor excursions) help to break up the monotony of learning. What are your suggestions for improving either homeschooling or online learning?
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How do you make learning work for you and your family?
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I hate to admit this, but after being in Asia for

I hate to admit this, but after being in Asia for almost a year, I was actually starting to miss the natural beauty of the Northwest US.
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Don’t get me wrong, I love Asia, and there is plenty of natural beauty there too. But it’s a different kind of nature than in the Northwest.
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I’ve been enjoying being among the evergreens again, and exploring the trails just minutes from our backyard.
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This particular trail is at Iller Creek Conservation Area in the Spokane Valley. We were blown away by how pretty it is walking up these hills.
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Have you spent an extended amount of time away from home? What did you miss most about home?
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These best buds have been all over the world toget

These best buds have been all over the world together. I love seeing how their relationship has grown stronger in the past few years!
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Raising your kids to love and enjoy being with their siblings can be tough. Of course there’s a natural tendency to want to compete, or even gain an edge over the other sibling.
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I see my daughter playing the older sibling card and bossing my son around. And I see my son playing the baby of the family card and getting away with things just by throwing a cute face my way.
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But at the same time, these kids are fiercely loyal to each other. They watch out for one another, and always kiss each other goodnight at the end of the day. My heart melts when I see them together, playing and enjoying each other’s company.
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For our family, travel has really allowed our kids to bond! And even though we can’t really travel right now, doing small hikes like this one at Deep Creek Canyon in Spokane can have the same bonding effect.
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How do you encourage your kids to be friends with each other? What helps your kids to bond?
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The fires in the west are destroying communities a

The fires in the west are destroying communities and causing poor air quality all over California, Oregon, and Washington states.
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This pic is from Diablo Lake at North Cascades National Park, where we spent this past weekend camping. While it was nice to spend time in the outdoors, it was a shame we couldn’t experience the full beauty of the park.
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Since coming back from our camping trip, we’ve been spending time indoors, trying to keep away from the smoke. It’s been hazy and grey all week!
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To all the families out there dealing with these fires, I hope you are safe and healthy. We’ll eventually get through this, and the earth will heal once again.
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What’s the weather like in your part of the world?
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It’s been interesting spending the summer in my

It’s been interesting spending the summer in my childhood home (and city). All of these memories that I carry with me are slowly being replaced by new memories with my own kids.
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I had apprehensions of returning to Spokane, WA. I left the city when I was 18 for a bigger and more cosmopolitan city. To my young mind, Spokane was too small, too close-minded, and not diverse enough for me.
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Now, twenty years later, I would say that the city hasn’t really changed much. It still feels like a small town, and it still has its problems with lack of diversity.
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But there are things I’m discovering about Spokane these days that my 18-year-old brain chose to overlook.
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This city is full of so much natural beauty. We have been on hikes all over the city, and just love how pretty the river, the trees, and the hills are. These pictures are from a recent visit to Riverfront Park, which National Geographic recently names one of America’s most beautiful urban parks.
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And we’ve also been making an effort to learn more about the city’s history - the role that the river played to the Native American tribes who lived on this land long before the first settlers ever set foot here. It’s a tragic history, repeated in so many other cities around the US.
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Your teens and twenties are all about thinking you know everything about the world. I’ve found my thirties to be a time of discovering there’s so much that I don’t know!
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Have you gone back and visited your childhood home as an adult? What was that experience like for you?
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While we were staying in the New York area, we did

While we were staying in the New York area, we did a homeschooling unit on New York history and immigration. Did you know that Castle Clinton, in Manhattan’s Battery Park, saw more than 8 million immigrants during its time as an immigration station?
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The history of the United States is very much a history of immigration and migration, often voluntary but sometimes also forced. And American culture is a reflection of the mixing of immigrant cultures, making do with what they have in their new land.
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As an immigrant, myself, I’m drawn to stories of people who leave their land of birth and live elsewhere. What connections do they maintain with their homeland, and how have they made new lives in their adopted land?
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Perhaps that’s why I have this desire for travel. To learn people’s stories and encourage my kids to do the same.
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What’s your family’s story? Have you always been where you are, or did you come from somewhere else?
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One of my favorite places to hang out in Spokane,

One of my favorite places to hang out in Spokane, WA is Riverfront Park. National Geographic recently named the park one of the country’s most beautiful urban parks!
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The park was built in 1974, as part of the World’s Fair, and one of the most notable landmarks of the park is the clock tower behind me. Before this area was a park, it was a railway depot for cargo trains, and that clock tower was pivotal in making sure the trains ran on time.
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Of course now, that railway depot is long gone, and most locals don’t know the history behind the clock tower. But it’s still an iconic symbol of the city of Spokane, none the less.
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What’s one piece of tidbit or historical fact about your city that most locals don’t know about? Share it with me! I love learning random facts about places. 🧐
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I voted by mail, so I don’t get any fancy “I V

I voted by mail, so I don’t get any fancy “I Voted!” stickers from my state. But I’m still proud to do my civic duty as an American.
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I first came to the United States when I was five, and was naturalized as an American citizen. Since then, I’ve always felt pride in my adopted country, though sometimes that pride was mixed with annoyance, embarrassment, anger, or sadness.
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Being American means many things, but at the heart, it means standing up for freedom. That word freedom means different things for different people. For me, as an Asian-American woman, raising multi-cultural kids, it means being able to live our lives without facing discrimination or racism, whether at an individual or systemic level.
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I hope America votes for the right candidate today, the one who truly is dedicated to helping people live free. But no matter the outcome, I will continue to use this platform as a means to promote diversity and tolerance.
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Go vote today, people!
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