I’ve been asked what we are doing for homeschool for our kids. Let me tell you about my experience putting together a curriculum for my 2nd grader, kindergartener, and pre-schooler. It was awful. I was so incredibly stressed out it was ridiculous. I felt that everyone I talked to had a different answer, a different…
My brother told me that we are “living our dream”. I had to sit a minute and contemplate exactly WHEN this became our dream. I promise we haven’t always had wanderlust. We bought a practical 2800 sq foot house in Lehi after college graduation. We loved putting in the yard, fixing up the storage room,…
I love it! What great thoughts on making the most of life. I remember visiting my brother in a house they were renting in the Netherlands. As we walked around the neighborhood I thought “these people aren’t storing five huge boxes of Christmas decorations.” We do have too much stuff and it takes up a huge amount of physical (and mental) space, I love seeing where you’re going. And I’m guessing you can clean your entire “house” in an hour or two! So jealous!ReplyCancel
Glad you guys are doing what suits you and your family. We rented our hyse out in SLC for the next three or four years and are traveling with our two year old full time. I love the free time and the family closeness, and wouldn’t trade the minor inconveniences of camper life for being in our traditional home. For us, the two year idea has now turned into four years……….ReplyCancel
This seriously brings tears to my eyes. I feel so so torn. The truth is my husband and I do not have a job that can be done from home. We spent 2 weeks in Canada traveling in August and I didn’t want to leave. I came back home changed wanting a simpler life a life spent in nature exploring. My hope is that in the next 3 years we will be able to find a job where we can live on the road. Thank you for sharing so many helping ideas and thoughts from your heart.
~VanessaReplyCancel
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We stumbled into a protest rally. The weather had finally stopped raining and church wasn’t until 1pm, so my visiting family and I decided to take a quick trip up to Washington DC to tour the monuments Sunday morning. Sam and I had visited the National Mall earlier in the week to see how closed…
“There it is!! I see it!” An 820 mile road trip and a previous week filled with anxiety for the unknown ended as we pulled parallel to the campground and spotted a red truck pulling a shiny, silver, Airstream through the guard station and back into the campsites. Movies, books, and toys forgotten, the kids…
When we finally got to Virginia I felt like I deserved a few days off. I wanted to lounge around, stay in my pajamas and really just not do a whole lot. So, we did. And we got bored. REALLY bored. The kids were fighting, I was not happy, and we all kind of just…
I can relate! When I first began Homeschooling, it was also hard for me, to get a clear answer too. That is why now, when people ask what and how we do it, especially now that we have went from Homeschool to Roadschool, I tell them 😉
For us, we school year-round and we use mostly online curriculum: Time4Learning, SpellingCity, etc. We also like to use are travels in our lessons. If we are going to be near Caves, Beaches, etc., we try to do a Unit study on them.
BTW,you have Great Blog here 🙂
Wendy- Thanks for stopping by and for your tips! We would love to be more online (because there are so many great resources) but its the internet costs that keep us away. How do you handle that? What do you guys use to connect to the great interwebs?
It was really fun to read through this! You guys are doing awesome.
Loved reading this! I had such a hard time figuring out which Curiculum was right for us. Our kiddos are 9 (4th grade) ,3 (pre-school) , and 2 months (obviously I’m not teaching the baby…yet 😉 ). We tried an online school first. HATED it! We’d cry everyday. Then we figured out that we needed to use Christ centered Curiculum. That changed everything. I stopped using the online program after a month and did lapbooks with her until I could find a program that we loved. I knew another mommy that homeschooled her 6 kids using sonlight and picked her brain. She sold me. The program is a bit pricey as far as Curiculum goes but they have a payment plan that worked for us. When the books and teachers mannual/schedule arrived (last schoolyear- 2013-2014) it was like the sky opened up and heaven shined down on us, lol, okay not really but the feeling of relief was quite intense. We bought the multi subject package which included all the books and materials for the school year in one box. Pretty much all we had to do is read these awesome books and talk about what we read? Sweet! Don’t get me wrong, we still have days that aren’t perfect but Sonlight has really helped us. I love that the whole years schedule is planned out for me, we don’t do everything, we pick and choose what works for us and I don’t worry that I’m not doing enough. I could go on but I don’t want to make this post too lengthy, or boring for that matter. 🙂
Love the blog and following your adventures on Instagram! Hoping to buy our airstream next summer. Y’all are so inspiring!
That’s awesome! I’m glad you found a home school curriculum that you LOVE! It makes all the difference. Thanks for following along, can’t wait until you guys hit the road as well!
Oh yay I found another response. Lol
Thanks! It all seems so far away but hoping we meet our goal of next summer. I’m feeling pretty anxious to make it happen. Hope we can stay on track.
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