Adventure Mamas Podcast

Have you ever been to family camp? It's like summer camp, but for your whole family! Ashley goes every year and Nikki doesn't. She thought that they only existed in Dirty Dancing, but BEHOLD! It's a real thing and Ashley shares all about it in this episode. There's even a dancing class, it's just missing Patrick Swayze.

For more information about Frost Valley YMCA Camp and Family Camp head here - https://frostvalley.org/

Us Adventure Mamas are very passionate about our family's homeschool educations. It's also the thing I am asked most about as an adventurer and on the playground. In this episode we talk about what our homeschools look like, how we define "nature school," resources that we love, and more!

Some of the resources we listed include:

HEAV

Exploring Nature with Children/Raising Little Shoots

Bible Study Fellowship International

Math U See

The Good and The Beautiful

Stephanie Hathaway Designs

Wildflowers by Sarah

For The Love of Homeschooling

Little World Wanderers

Heritage Mom

1000 Hours Outside: Add the Wonder

Jack Hartmann Kids Music Channel

Super Simple Play with Caitie

Teacher's Pay Teachers

Pocket of Preschool

Teacher's Pay Teachers

In this episode, we dive into Nikki's purchase and renovations of her pop-up camper, as well as its maiden voyage, which was also Nikki's first solo camping trip with kids!

We mention -

Skidaway Institute of Oceanography

HipCamp

Harvest Hosts

Boondockers Welcome

Herd it Here Farm

Alastair Humphries wrote a wonderful book called "Micro Adventures," and it had so many beautiful ideas for adventures in his locality outside of work hours. Most of those adventures didn't feel feasible for mom with small children or for family adventures, so we grasped his idea and decided to try to make it applicable for families.

You can check out his book here, and also listen in to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast that he joined here.

We also mention -

ASTC and AZA reciprocity

My Active Child Hampton Roads

In this episode we talk all about the book, "Memory Making Mom," by Jessica Smartt. We share lots of our family traditions and memories growing up, as well as the ones we are trying to make now with our families.

We will also be hosting a give away for a copy of the book, so stay tuned on our socials for more info there!

In this episode we talk all things road trips! Everything from car seat safety, favorite places to stop, car snacks, and more. Adventure is just a car ride away. And sometimes it's the car ride itself.

We mention in this episode:

CPST

Brains On Podcast

Safe in the Seat

All Trails

Playground Buddy

Ashley loaded up her crew and flew across the pond! In this episode we talk about flying with kids, international travel tips, how cool England and Scotland are, rock scrambling, and more.

Adventure is everywhere, let's find it with our families!

Beach trips before kids are very different from beach trips with kids. Learn how to choose a beach, sun safety, water safety, and many tips and tricks to make your trip a success!

In this episode we mention:

Shabumi

Solar Buddy

Swim Zip

1000 Hours Outside

In today's episode we talk about our trip to Indiana to see the total eclipse. Traveling with 6 young kids, 2 dogs, and 2 mamas meeting in the middle was surely an adventure. Hear our high, lows, and what we learned along the way. If we could do it, you can too!

This week we mentioned:

Hipcamp

Unplugged Acres in Indiana

Google Maps

Coley Raeh

1000 Hours Outside