by Melissa Willets posted in Parenting

Mom-of-five and Purposeful Family Living blogger Bethany Bauman lives full-time in an RV with her brood and her entrepreneur husband. The Bauman's five children were welcomed through adoption: Jada is 8, Austin and Alicia are 7-year-old twins, and Ava, who is also 7, is three months younger than the twins; Jayden is 4.
"Our reasons and desire to live full time in an RV kinda shifted as time progressed," Bethany told BabyCenter in an email. "At the start, the plan was to live in our RV while we sold our house and give us plenty of time to look for our next house."
But after spending a month in Florida to "test the waters and see what life would be like living in an RV," the family from Pennsylvania realized that homeschooling their kids and traveling the U.S. was the life for them.
"When we started out on this journey, it became apparent the positive effect that this lifestyle was having on our family," Bethany told us. "All of our kids are adopted and being able to spend more intentional time with them has really aided in the bonding of our family."
Daily life is what Bethany describes as flexible structure. "We usually try to work at school lessons in the morning and have that wrapped up by lunch time. The afternoons they are free to play, or we go out and explore something in the area. We tend to school year-round, that way it's not a big deal to skip school lessons some d...