Parenting Is Hard

Living in an RV or in a house parenting is hard. Yup. As much as I wish it wasn’t the reality, it is. Everyone – including us – makes life with kids look so great and perfect on social media. But everyone with kids knows that there is rarely a day that goes by where there …

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The Magic Word To Deepen Your Family Bond

The number one word to use to strengthen your family bond is such an easy word, yet so hard to use at times. It is a word, but it is also a mindset. A mindset around valuing your children’s desires and supporting them. I am sure you are wondering what the word is. Here is …

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New School Dad

So. You’re a new dad. Or maybe an old dad. Or maybe not even a dad yet, but your wife told you to read this. Well, awesome. All are welcome, this is a judgement-free zone. I wanted to talk a little about the shift in paradigm that fathers are going through. Remember back in the …

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How travel has made our kids more adventurous and confident

Hitting the road has definitely made our kids more adventurous! Before we left we would go to a lot of museums and activities around our home town and the kids always had a good time. Carson use to have a fear of swimming in the ocean because he was afraid a shark was going to get …

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Diaper free without any M&M’s or potty training books

It is official all 4 of our kids are out of diapers!! We did this without any M&M’s or potty training books. For real. Here is how it went down. First born: He turned 2 we went to the store and he picked out his Thomas the Train underwear. We came home put them on. …

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Birthdays on the road!

Celebrating Melia and Cannon’s 5th Birthday in Florida! This is the first of our birthdays on the road. I was nervous about how the kids would react. Back home we always had big birthday parties with 25 plus kids and that is what the kids were used to. Leading up to their Birthday we talked …

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Reconnecting and Quality Time with the Kids

Parenting is supposed to be hard. I truly believe this and I am OK with that. We don’t want our kids to fit into these perfect little boxes that most of society thinks they should fit into. We want them to be who they are! Does this make life challenging – YES! Every single day …

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Playing in the Mud!

YES we let our kids play in the mud! They LOVE it! In our old house we actually put mud in one of those plastic swimming pools and let the kids play in it. They loved it! Now that we live at a campground

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Our parenting journey

When I was pregnant with Carson we were the type of parents that bought all of the accessories and tools you “needed” to have a baby. That’s what good parenting is, right? We never thought we would co-sleep and we had the crib set up in the other room all ready to go. Then Carson …

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