Team Hamilton

Team Hamilton

Welcome!

Sadly, but practically, our plans have changed, we are very sad but will pick ourselves up, dust off and modify! That was the goal after all- learning to be more flexible! Please see the blog entitled "We love cake." for all the details. Give me a few days to re-bound and I'll post something more optimistic. Just need some time to re-group.
Love,
Laura

Sunday, January 24, 2010

On the Road schooling and laundry???

This is a link from the online RV newsletter I delight in reading each sunday morning. That is our planning day! This is a nice interview with a mom who home schools on the road. It isn't the best one I've seen but it does have an interesting perspective. I'll post more links for those who are interested in our homeschool plans.

In other news, as I am blogging, reading my RV newsletter and starting on hour THREE of laundry... I am thinking of how to organize the clothing for everyone. I am thinking each one of us will get to take seven to ten warm weather and ten cool weather outfits, store the off season ones in the "basement" of the RV. Plan two is matching tan jumpsuits with the names: Pilot, co-pilot, junior captain 1 and Junior captain 2 embroidered on the back in hunter green. Of course if we did that we'd probably only need, like four of each! It's an option...
The bigger issue is laundry! Do I want to sacrifice the 230 pounds and a couple hundred dollars to get the small stackable RV Washer/dryer? They take a lot of water (which is only an issue if we are boondocking) and can only hold a small amount of clothing. I have also heard that the dryers take forever. On the other hand, I wouldn't have to spend hours in a nasty laundry room, reading piles of old donated romance novels, use up a million quarters, haul laundry back and forth and deal with possible theft or grease stains from other peoples "ick" left in washers. (Honestly, if my clothes are going to be stained with cherry chapstick, I want to know it's MY KID'S chapstick, not some other slacker Mom's kid.
Hmm, I don't know, the more I think of it, the allure of being able to do a load while I am in my own home, teaching the boys or whatever is pretty appealing. It means loosing valuable storage space but I guess I could FILL the washer and dryer with stuff that would normally be out but put away while moving. Care to weigh in on the laundry issue?

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