Adventure Family: Backcountry Sledding

I’ve been saying for years that parenting is the original life hack, but no-one listens to me, they think I’m crazy, or worse, lying  But let me ask you, in what other career, job, universe do adults get to play and relive the best parts of  their childhood?  I think, I really really think, that parenting … Read more

Kids Most At Risk: From “Dangerous Toys” or Immobility?

In a very rare moment, I was lying in bed with my two youngest daughters, searching On Demand for “Descendents” and while I was doing so, I heard some news anchor mention the words “toys” and “insurance” in the same sentence and it sparked my curiosity. Now, I can’t tell you how Descendents turned out, … Read more

Living is Organic Homeschooling At It’s Finest!

Life sometimes seems like a chess game, no?  A game of both luck, maybe some skill and a whole lot of guesswork that sometimes works out and sometimes does not come close.  In life, you adapt, you keep pressing on, enjoying life each and every day. That is how this fulltime travel gig of ours … Read more

Finding the Meaning of Life in Family

Before I was a mom, I knew I was meant to be a mom.  Not a writer, not a career woman, just a mom, plain and simple.  It was all I’ve ever wanted to be and I never thought of anything else. That is until I was in 12th grade scouting colleges and planning my … Read more

Positive Parenting: Raising Mentally, Physically and Spiritually Strong Kids and Teenagers

Faith: “Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen” Hebrews  11:1   There’s so many different positive parenting styles.  There’s the helicopter parent, the free-range parent, the working parent and everything in between.  I think in my heart of hearts, I’m more of a helicopter parent than I would ever care … Read more

The Most Epic Homeschool Curriculum … is FREE!!

One of the top questions we are asked is about our kids and school, like “how do you travel all the time?  Aren’t your kids in school?” Ah, dude, I think … “the world is their school, life is their teacher, and they are already so beyond where I was when I was their age. … Read more