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Taking photos of the kids at the beginning of the school year is a great way to document their childhood and I just love comparing photos from one year to the next! Partly because I enjoy making them different and partly because I don’t want to print six signs with color ink…call me cheap if you want 🙂 I even added in a “First Day of My ____ Year Teaching” sign so make sure you let your kids snap a picture of you for the first day of school. If you want to frame the sign for photos you can trim the print by laying the glass of the frame, centered, on top of the sign and tracing around the glass.

In the past couple of years, we’ve really enjoyed sharing the behind the scenes of our family life through Instagram. When time is short for sharing here on the blog, it’s nice to take a few moments to connect with and encourage other families. On Instagram we share about our outdoor adventures… the ins and outs of living as a large(r) family in an RV for over two years… and the behind the scenes of our crazy family. We’re looking forward to connecting with more of our readers, learning more about your lives, and looking for ways we can encourage you.

We had told the older kids we would wake them up the next morning to see the sunrise, but then we experienced our fair share of setbacks and the day had been much longer than anticipated. Thankfully, everyone slept well and Tim woke early to start on morning preparations as we were scheduled to drive into Pensacola to visit the children’s science center before continuing on our drive to New Orleans. Thankfully, Tim had walked one of the trails earlier that morning, so he quickly gave me directions as the kids bundled up to embrace the early morning chill. We found the trail easily, but soon I was questioning Tim’s directions as the beach seemed nowhere to be found.

If you are stationary, I know this seems like a very short amount of time and if you travel fulltime, I’m sure this seems like a l-o-n-g time. A huge part of why we’re splitting our roadtrips up with longer periods of stationary living is because of the good experience we had living as an RV family in central Florida. In our three months we were able to discover great parks and museums, visit the local library, find a wonderful church, participate in a vibrate Awana club, and even search out the cheapest laundromat and the most convenient free wifi 🙂 During our stay, we lived exclusively in the Three Flags RV Campground in Wildwood, FL. Overall, our three months living as an RV family in central Florida was a great time of growth and gave us a slower pace with room to figure some things out.