Semiserious Chefs

Although I refuse to acknowledge that Cystic Fibrosis runs our life I will quickly admit that it is very seriously A Monkey On Our Back. There are two very true things about living in a small space with CF. (I’m not quite willing to call a fifth-wheel a ‘tiny’ home.) ONE: You have to keep […]

Nathan has been working very hard on his First Responder Skills as part of his Firefighter Training. We made a little video showing some of the things he’s been working on, but also how I decided to combine treatment and learning. With treatments taking up an hour and half of everyday it was hard to […]

When it comes to ‘routine checkups’ Nathan visits a lot of medical staff. For instance, for his 5 year checkup he saw his pediatric nurse and pediatrician of course, but he also had a routine CF clinic appointment where he saw his CF nurse, nutritionist, CF social worker, pulmonology nurse, and pediatric pulmonologist/CF doctor. Now […]

I am very happy to report that things are going just as I had expected! Perhaps even better! We’re working on Unit 2 of Singapore Math Level 1, so we’re into addition now. It’s not a particularly fast pace, but we don’t do math every day. As I talked about in my Questioning Homeschool post […]

I was recently watching a documentary about the pressures put on many kids in public school. They are pressed to get the highest grades, but also challenged to get many hours of homework done, after going to school for 7 hours, plus sports practice. And that’s in upper grade school. The highschoolers are taking 6 […]

So it begins! We start homeschool with Nathan on August 31st. Up until now I’d done ‘Kindergarten’ three days a week for 10-20 minutes each, since his 3rd birthday. It was a chance to find out what he knows and where he needs to improve. Toward the end he knew lots of colors and shapes […]

Pregnancy and Birth Back in 2010 Andrew and I decided that after 7 years of marriage we were ready to start our family. God blessed us with a very quick conception; within 5 days of ‘trying’ we conceived. I had anticipated getting pregnant and had spent the previous year working out and weight training. Needless […]

ACT I – BEGINNING Our journey to traveling full time was not an easy one. It required a lot of transitions, often times not being where we want to be in-order to get where we wanted to be. I hate to go so far back, but it truly does start with the birth of our […]

Driving the Alcan. Or as it’s now known, The Alaska Highway. It’s the long aspiring dream of so many people. Retire and take an RV trip all the way to Alaska. The adventure of a lifetime! But I guess we’re not most people. First, we’re FROM Alaska. Second, I think when most people envision their […]

We recently finished the Firefighting Unit on Tools in our homeschooling and got a personal invitation for Nathan to visit Anchorage Fire Department’s Station 12 from an employee at C&T Fire; the place we went to learn more about fire extinguishers. Station 12 happens to be the location for all of the small tool repair […]