Abandoning Convention – Free Range Dreams Homeschooling

January 29, 2012 3 Comments

Window Shopping For the Soul

I’ve always had a tough time resisting buying little, cool, one-of-a-kind things that are full of grace and character, and are usually handmade. It is a cheaper shopping habit than most, but it still owns a bit more of the consumer attitude than I’d like to think I’m victim to. It...

December 4, 2011 5 Comments

What It’s All About…

We’re hitting the road again and this time we’ll be crossing the SouthWest with our quarter-dozen children ranging from 7 months to 7 years. The trip is planned out: David has a tour booked all across our route and we know where we need to be each day to stay on...

October 11, 2011 4 Comments

Give Me Spots on My Apples, but Leave Me the Birds and the Bees…Please!

I tend to let my children go out and adventure without hovering, and moreso with each child. A few weeks ago when her sister was chasing her over the sidewalk, Annabelle had a terrible spill and scraped up her lovely face: nose, lips, and chin all lost the top layer of...

September 10, 2011 2 Comments

Ada’s Birthday

Ada is seven years old and we had such an amazing time celebrating her birthday last night with family and this morning with friends! This is what we love about being back and what we missed when we were away. It is what makes us continue to call Clearwater home even...

August 10, 2011 6 Comments

I Know Why the Gypsies Dance

This morning I stepped out of Benny to sunshine sparkling on the line of energetic automobiles motoring along the highway and behind them, the less energetic treeline of a Northern Forest. We played outside on the grass at the Saturday parking lot of the Warren County Municipal Center where the police...

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 1 Comment

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...

February 18, 2011 3 Comments

What About Family?

This is the big question for us. Family is what brought David and I to Clearwater years ago, which was a lucky thing because that’s where we met and fell in love. Family is what has kept us in Florida for seven or so years, even though neither of us actually...

February 10, 2011 Post a Comment

Spent the Night in the RV

For a family planning to spend every night in the RV, our first night counts as a pretty big deal. We’re not moved in, but with Ada (6 years old) spending the night at my parents’ house, we thought it would be a pretty easy thing to camp out in Benny,...

January 25, 2011 3 Comments

What if you just took a month long trip?

What if, instead of renting out our house and living in our MotorHome fulltime while traveling the United States, we just saved up money and went for a month long trip? Honestly, I’m not sure how to answer this question. What if we did? Then we would probably have a very...

Search Site

Category: Abandoning Convention