Welcome! You’re probably here because you’re a friend or family member who has caught wind of our daringly zany adventure, you scanned a QR code somewhere, or you stumbled here by accident– hope you’re up for an adventure! It’s hard for me to articulate what I’m feeling right now and this is the thousandth draft I’ve written trying to balance authentic emotion, but making it readable!
This has been a dream of ours for SO LONG! And thinking about this actually happening takes my breath away—or gives me crippling anxiety–depends on the time of day and whether or not I’ve been fed–ha ha.
What are we doing?
The tagline for this answer is simple: we are taking our kids–all six of them– worldschooling for between six months and a year. But we’re planning on a year. We’re starting in Ireland, specifically. And–making sure we keep to the laws governing passports and tourists–hope to stay for three months before going to Northern Ireland and then perhaps coming back. The crazy thing about this plan is that we don’t have everything written in stone. Like, not every plan is ironed out–and that’s where the anxiety comes from. I LOVE making plans and having everything prepared to the last little dot on every little “i”. But in this version of events, we’re pantsing it. (As in flying by the seat of our pants.)
Along with soaking up the wonderful culture of the Emerald Isle, we are hoping to jump onto Ryanair (our favorite budget airline) and skip on over to Europe a few times to experience adventures that we have been planning and dreaming about for almost two decades. And if not two decades, then my whole life–not that I’m melodramatic 🙂
This is a stock photo provided by Pexel.com but it is taken in the area we are going to stay for a few months, Donegal. I can’t tell you how excited I will be when I can have my OWN pictures added here!
Who are we?
Let me sum up: Hailing from Maricopa, Arizona (the city, not the county), we are a family of eight with six kids and two adults ranging from the ages of 2-39. My husband (Eric) and I (Jill) are tutors who tutor in person and online both. Eric has a mechanical engineering degree and specializes in tutoring science, math, and engineering. I have an English degree from ASU and specialize in tutoring English, reading, and writing as well as ESL. I also moonlight as an author. My husband also works as the operations manager for a safety-compliance company called Insure Compliance.
This is a picture of us in Plymouth. We are on the first street that was built, now called Leyden street, and one of the houses on that street has a plaque on it commemorating William Brewster. Who is an ancestor of mine, and walking on the street that I knew he had walked was next-level.
The Burgoyne Bunch 