Tick tock, tick tock

We are down to 10 days until move in! These last few days have been spent sorting, making modifications (I promise pictures soon!), sorting, and more sorting. Our items are not selling as quickly as I would hope. Today we are planning on going to Once Upon A Child, a kid's consignment store, to hopefully take care of a lot of our kid's 'stuff'. Hopefully we'll have a yard sale next weekend and most of our things can find new homes.

We had a soft start of our official homeschooling year yesterday. My goal is to be more relaxed about checking off all of the boxes, and let go of what school SHOULD look like. That's a bit difficult for a type A-er like myself. Cameron (6yrs, and 1st grade) practiced his writing (generally his least favorite subject) by writing out our grocery list, which he actually enjoyed. He really likes being in charge of things, and proudly wrote out each item, and checked them off as we read them to us and we added it to the cart- reading practice! We covered math by looking at the prices on the grocery items, and talking about adding. We also talked about nutrition during an intense stand off about him finishing his lunch.

I'm really looking forward to our drive cross-country, and all of the teaching opportunities there will be at all of the places we stop at. For now I am going with the flow and creating curriculum on the fly, but the plan is to enroll him in a charter school when we get to CA, where they will help with curriculum, and help oversee that he is learning what he needs to. I think having some guidance for a while will help me to get my homeschooling feet under me, and help build confidence as his instructor. We're also planning on signing him up for classes through a group who meets at Disneyland for classes a couple of times a month. I mean, how freaking cool is that?!

Here are some pictures of our RV before we started making any modifications to it. It's a 2013 North Trail 33TBUD by Heartland, and a video walk through with some snazzy music courtesy of RV world and a YouTube search:

 Kitchen/dining area. I like the flow that the island offers, as well as the additional counter space.

 Living room area. We're having a cabinet built to go under the TV that will store movies, video game systems, and whatever else will fit in there.

 Bathroom. I *think* we're planning on installing a shelf above the toilet for towel storage. We're still working on that.

 Part of the master bedroom. We've put laundry baskets in the space between this wall and bed.

 Master continued.

 Kid's room. We removed the upper bunk, as we won't need it, and it blocks the light from the window when it's flipped up to be able to use the table. This will be our homeschooling hub!

 Kid's bedroom cont.

 Storage! I'm planning on using that bottom cabinet for all of my craftery. My goal is to fit my sewing machine, crochet accessories, Cricut, and whatever else I can squeeze in there. Fingers crossed!

Not a great picture, but this is where Cam will sleep. He'll be on the upper bunk, and we're having a drawer unit made to replace the lower bunk for more clothes storage for Tom and me, as well as the kids, and I'm even getting cubbies to store my babywearing gear!

My plan is to post pictures after we're done with all of the modifications in one big post. Back to sorting!