Life of Fred

Life of Fred

Looking for a unique complete math curriculum? Look no further. Life of Fred has it all. Whether your child is 3 years old or in college, Life of Fred has the book for you. There are a couple things I love about this curriculum. The first is that it covers more than just math. The […]

Getting Started

Getting Started

I have been homeschooling for so long and roadschooling has been a regular part of my family, so sometimes I forget what it was like in the beginning. Many people already homeschool and are ready to make the leap into roadschooling. Other have babies, not yet ready for school. And many more have kids in […]

Unschooling

Unschooling

What is unschooling? That’s probably what you want to know and that’s why you’re here. We’ll I’m not going to tell you. It is a highly debated topic and I’m not up for the debate. We’ll borrow Wikipedia’s definition: It’s an educational method and philosophy that advocates learner-chosen activities as a primary means for learning. […]

New Food Friday

New Food Friday

Years ago with our older kids and the kids at Harmony’s old childcare, Kids by Nature, we had weird food Wednesday. Each Wednesday when the afterschool kids would show up, we’d try something new. None of our younger kids were around for that so we decided to recreate it with New Food Friday. Our boys […]

Chickpea flour

Chickpea and flour are not two words I ever thought would go together.  We first tried it just as an experiment, to see how it tastes.  Now it is common in our home to make everything with chickpea flour.  We eat chickpea flour waffles, pancakes, yeast bread, muffins, cookies, birthday cake, pizza crust, pie crust.  […]

Beans, Beans the magical fruit

Beans, Beans the magical fruit

Beans are amazing.  They are full of protein, fiber, nutrients and antioxidants.  They are so easy to make and are very inexpensive. Before we got our instant pot we would buy canned beans regularly.  It usually cost about $1 per can.  We would eat them almost daily.  We had tried making them from dried beans […]

Piano in an RV

One of the first questions we got when we talked to our children about traveling full time in an RV was, what about my piano?  After years of music lessons she became quite attached to her piano.  Unfortunately it is not really practical to travel with a piano.  They can’t fit in many RVs, they […]