March 2011 – Free Range Dreams Homeschooling

March 28, 2011 6 Comments

Handwashing Laundry

Yesterday I received birthday presents from my family, and they were kind enough to get me just what I asked for: new toys for the new RV life. Some material for our tiny reference library including The Next Exit (2011), Camping with the Corps of Engineers, and this large print atlas...

March 25, 2011 13 Comments

Taking a big breath…and letting go.

The stress of trying to arrange for an estate sale was too much for me, so I let it go and have been giving our things away. I’ve found that there is a greater benefit to this decision than I knew: We’re letting go of the an accumulation stage of our...

March 15, 2011 3 Comments

Progress!

Getting rid of stuff–or dekludging, as we call it–happened to an actual perceivable degree this weekend. You see, Sunday was my birthday and what did I want? LESS stuff! My darling husband obliged by taking a day off from the giant mess of things we always have to get done, and...

March 14, 2011 5 Comments

The Things That Own You

The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Wow, I’ve had a rough week. I feel positively weighed down...

March 3, 2011 2 Comments

Other Fulltime RV Dwellers

We’re not the first to think that a family of five can be happy living fulltime in an RV: http://www.lundy5.com/ This family is working on baby #6: Roadschooling Ryans Family of six living their dream of changing the world: Passion to Action Unschooling family of four: Clan of Parents This family...

March 1, 2011 6 Comments

Permission to Relax

I’m starting to think that when all the work of preparing for serenity becomes stressful, I’m doing something wrong. Shouldn’t serenity be one of those things that you don’t have to prepare for? Can’t I find serenity and then expect the logistics to fall into place BECAUSE I’m serene? After a...

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Unschooling

“I guess my ideal educational system would be a society in which knowledge was widely free and widely and freely shared, and children were everywhere trusted, respected, safe, valued, and welcomed . . . I think practically anything we do to help is mostly going to be harmful except for very...

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