our family’s next adventure!
so we are about to do something a little bit crazy. we are simplifying. we are making a choice to stop putting off our happy life and we are going to jump right in. here’s the plan: we are in the...
View Articleour first few weeks on the road!
i can’t believe it’s been three weeks already that the road has been our home. in some ways it seems like it’s been a year and in other ways it feels like we have just been camping and that we will...
View Articlesummertime on the road.
hey there friends. it has been too long since my last post! i really wanted to have a goal of blogging every week but, goodness, we are busy. i never thought i could possibly get busier, especially...
View Articlethe Yahoo! news documentary of OUR family!
so remember when i told you that yahoo! news filmed us for a day for a documentary? well, it is finished and online! click HERE to watch it!!! we were on the front page. millions of viewers. i...
View ArticleYellowstone, Montana, Wyoming & Utah.
i always find myself here, about a hundred stories but no words to even begin to tell them. i look forward to when we do settle down at the beginning of 2014 to be able to spend some good time writing...
View ArticleWe are moving to Washington!
so, it’s official. we are about to settle down! we have been on the road for almost six months. we had planned for it to be a little bit longer. we thought we may travel for a year, possibly more....
View ArticleOur new Washington homestead!
we are officially residents of washington state! we almost can’t believe it! we’ve been here for three weeks now and we pretty much pinch ourselves every day that we wake up and look out the window....
View Articlethis current season…
so we’ve been living this new normal for three months now. i wrote and erased that sentence five times there because while it is our life it still doesn’t exactly feel like home. i think the newness...
View Articlesnow days.
these are the days that only existed in my dreams before we moved up here. we just got a few days of snow but they were sure full of incredible beauty. a look into our winter wonderland days…
View Articlespringtime is happy time!
the past few weeks here have felt like such a gift. the weather is warming, the baby is walking, the trees are flowering, the days are growing longer and hope feels thick in the air. everything is...
View ArticleOur visits to Little House & Ingalls Homestead!
i have so much to tell you about the Ingalls Homestead in DeSmet, South Dakota but let me begin with just this one photo of my feisty/deep/soulful/wild/introverted gracie girl. on that day, she truly...
View Articlea prouty summertime film.
the first frost has arrived. the pumpkin vines have dried up, the last of the apples have fallen from the trees and the ground is frozen solid making us steady ourselves for the winter ahead. we’ve...
View ArticleHomeschooling on our homestead.
“The teacher’s desire is to so feed her students and whet their apetities that they will naturally value books and come to feed themselves… we, like Charlotte Mason, wish to have children take their...
View ArticleAt Home in Texas as a family of 7!
When we arrived in Washington, two years and three months ago, we had merely picked a place on the map and jumped. Drawn to the fresh air, the tall trees and the fog that settled low on the...
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