CAREFULLY CARELESS

It happened gradually. I left my parents house for a dorm that I made has homey as possible. Then I made an apartment as cozy as I could with some friends. Soon I left my apartment and moved into my first home with my husband. I naturally became a homemaker even with a fulltime job. I love making a place a home. I brought all my babies into that first home, which I nested in for almost a decade. After that, we felt a call to leave that home, so we rented a house not far away

We have been contemplating going overseas for as little as a month and as much as an entire year because we still don't know where God is calling us to live after traveling around North America for two years (and then some). We also want to soak up our probable final year of full-time traveling. Life is too short to wait until you're retired. You may never get there. So if you can go, you should go. However, we've had unexpected circumstances keep us in our old stomping groun

There's enough full-time RV families to answer all your questions of how? why? where? etc. We, personally, watched Keep Your Daydream on Youtube for years before moving to the road. However, if you're not a full-timer, it's easy to romanticize or scrutinize the mobile lifestyle. Every time I meet someone on the road and tell them I live in an RV with my husband and four boys, they say, "Wow, I have a million questions." So, I figured I'd answer the top 10 for those who are s

We have met so many families who seem to be utilizing "camping" as glue for their family. I would have assumed that the opposite was...

I have a son who LOVES all food. Having once been fed solely through a G-tube, he appreciates eating more than my other kids. When a...

According to Our World Data, if you are a keen conversationalist, on average you will talk to three new people each day. Then by the time...

I've ALWAYS wanted to visit Hawaii, but when I boarded a plane to Oahu for the first time the strangest anxiety swept over me. That's the...

I remember going back and forth on highway 400 every day in the spring of 2015. Every morning and every evening, back and forth in my...

We are often asked how we have any privacy, let alone intimacy, living on the road with four boys all together, all the time. Well...

After nine months on the road, we finally returned "home" for some important doctors appointments. While we don't have a physical home in...

I've noticed a trend while walking down the busiest streets in North America with kids. Instead of hiding from the unpleasantries, the...

It has happened many times. I wake up, and I'm not sure what day it is, what time it is, or what I'm going to see out my window. I can't ...

We often hear late night owls, laughter, or loud music during these warm, longer days. But these noises always reverberate more harshly...

“I hate it, but I love it.” My husband and I frequently use this quip, mocking an old workout DVD. The infamous trainer quotes it...

Square peg in a round hole. Too tight. Too small. There are a million and one ways to say that something doesn't work, but it takes...

Being the "new kid on the block" can feel like your a shiny new toy-- fresh, fun, and fairly mysterious. No one knows your full...

We sort of feel like we have been living in a constant state of summer camp mixed with a mission trip. Our stuff is jammed in trunks,...

Recently my cavity-prone child had to get a few more "quadrants" of baby teeth filled, mostly due to overcrowding and a strong gag, but I...

We had finally made the kitchen at our first home the way I would have wanted it all those many meals made during the years prior. But we...

Stepping off the hamster wheel A friend just told us, "I get up, take the kids to school, workout, work, come home, eat dinner, play with...