Adventure Day

Adventure Day

Adventure day is a tradition in our family that builds into our relationships and creates cherished memories. Here’s how you can create your own adventure day!

Meow Wolf: Grapevine

Meow Wolf: Grapevine

The portal opens soon. Meow Wolf, an immersive art collective, is dropping another location and this time it's in the Dallas area. The newest "portal" as their locations are called opens in Grapevine on July 14th, 2023. The Meow Wolf Grapevine location is actually...

Texarkana Adventure Guide

Texarkana Adventure Guide

It's time to plan some adventures. Hey, hi! I'm Nichole. Adventures are a big part of our life and our homeschool and I'm thrilled to share this brand new, family-friendly, Texarkana adventure guide with you! I get questions every year about what to do with kids in...

Momentum: My one word for 2023

Momentum: My one word for 2023

Why one word? Every year at the end of December, I choose my one word for the year. I'm not the first person to do this, but it's a habit that has stuck with me for the past five years. Sometimes it's easy and pops into my mind as soon as I start thinking about the...

Winter School Term 2022

Winter School Term 2022

This post contains affiliate links and sponsored content, but the opinions expressed are my own. Our winter school term. Generally speaking, we school year round. However this year we've been following more of a traditional school schedule. Our next term begins this...

Experiences Over Things

Experiences Over Things

A different sort of holiday gift guide, without an affiliate link in sight. This year, choose something that keeps on giving with experiences over things.

Welcome to our shenanigans.

Nichole is mama to two incredible adventurers, an older boy and a younger girl, and they are on their eighth year of homeschooling. She has been married to Ryan for sixteen years and they share a mutual love for the outdoors. An Iowan native now living in the south, she is happy to claim Arkansas as home. She is a wanderlust (and coffee) fueled, fearless, road tripper who has been known to take off for epic adventures at a moments notice. Hiking and camping (of the backpacking variety) and crystal digging are a few of their favorite family activities. You can find her in the woods somewhere, probably up a creek, and jumping off waterfalls. Nichole is also on the Executive Team for Run Wild My Child, where she is the Editor of the Get Out Guides.