My wife had our second little girl last night. Tomorrow she will come "home" to our bus. So now we have a two year old girl and a 1 day old. Yay. This bus just got more cramped. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180128/32709cf8083c6962a8a752321f81563a.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180128/4d9d93b725aae59ff4b900d75617204c.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180128/3a5f4dce1eadac16dcb83b649ced9c24.jpg)
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Congrats!
;D BK ;D
Congratulations Scott and Heather, The big sister must be real happy to start helping out. :)
Cool!!
Clap clap clap ! Nice family !
Congratulations to all three especially Scott and Heather
Melbo
Congratulations on the new addition. That is going to be one joyous bus!
Congratulations!!!! How are you going to keep them out of the cupboards soon? You'll also need a huge trailer for their toys. Eventually you'll be on the lookout for playgrounds to stop at.
Lol. Thank you!!! My two year old has pretty strict rules about the cupboards so we haven't had any issues with her but the dangerous ones are locked anyway. Yeah we already have to stop the bus sometimes during our tours so our two year old can get out and run around.
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Congratulations on number two. You do know they get bigger right? LOL ;D
Congrats!
I've got 4 myself, youngest is 5 now... I'll admit I miss the little babies, I'm only 35 but the day grand babies are a thing I'll be into that.
Enjoy it all as much as you can, sometimes you just gotta laugh as those little boogers find and empty all the soap / shampoo / etc onto the floor.
We have three girls and when they were little, on the way to Wasaga Beach in Barree, Canada, we would stop in Salamanca, New York at a school that had a huge treated lumber playground. It was daylight for about an hour and kids were now fully awake and needed unwinding. We'ed stay about an hour and have breakfast before continuing. Did it several years in a row.
Congratulations Scott! Enjoy them as they grow up way to fast.
Jason
Congrats! Not many kids can say they were raised in a travelling bus. how cool
Congratulations to you guys! ;D
Will and Wife
How long before they get their first wrench?
Nice addition Scott & Heather! Getting to be a band of gypsies... :-)
Congratulations, best wishes for happy and healthy years to come, tom...
congratulations !! i have two also :) my youngest is 40 :)
ps girls are easier :) stick with girls, they cost more (ie: think prom dresses and shoes), but easier :)
Lol! I sure hope
So. Life just got exponentially crazier going from one to two. We get discharged from the hospital tomorrow. Our two year old has been watched by our close friends but tomorrow we rejoin as a family of 4. I can't wait to be in my own bed (hospital chairs suck to sleep in) and I'm looking forward to us all being together. Our friends brought Emma in today to the hospital to meet her baby sister and her reactions and sweetness astounded us. We both cried like babies. I have a video but I'm embarrassed to share it. I was kind of a mess. Awesome journey. Thanks for the props. Bus life is no joke, especially for four but we will manage and make an adventure out of it.
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Emma & ??? :D
Aubree :)
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Congratulations to all of you! That is awesome!
Davy
Congrats and enjoy it.
Ryan.
Thanks! We are all back home today. The 4 of us in a Bus and frankly, so far it's going Well.
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Con grads the only thing better than kids are grand kids.
3 kids 1 son 2 daughters
5 gran kids 4 girls and 1 grand son
uncle ned and wilma
... ♩♩ C'mon, get happy ♩♩ ♫ ... rings in my head. Congrats. Next bus a double decker?
Next bus will be a house lol. We've been fulltiming almost our entire marriage which will be 9 years this year. I'm guessing we have another 5-6 years on the road before we start seriously ramping down the tours. Time will tell. My wife and 2 year old love living on the road...I'm getting weary of it because it just brings a whole host of other challenges mostly related to keeping an old Bus on the road...
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Hey Scott sounds like there is a Song in there somewhere,
Off the road again, the wife and the kid are tired and weary, the next town is far from close and the voice is still verbos, ahhhhhh will be another old Bus as long as it will fix itself and support the 4 of us, baw baw baw/// ::)
Your welcome royalties to follow, LOL
Cute baby! Congratulations!
It doesn't matter what life style you have, there are always things to fix. It doesn't matter if it is a bus, a house, a relationship with family, at work, with neighbors, etc. All you can do is fix it, and carry on. Consider yourself lucky if all you have are bus mechanical issues. Enjoy the kids while they are young, because next thing you know they graduate and move out of the bus (house).
JC
Best wishes for happy days, great adventures, and a wonderful life together.
Congratulations to you both!
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Thank you again! Btw the song was great! The next country hit.
You're right I absolutely have to count my blessings. I have a wife who loves living in a Bus and loves driving it for days on end too. Why am I complaining? Houses have issues, furnaces die, wood rots, plumbing breaks, leaks, and freezes...
But, my friends, the grass is so lush and juicy on the other side!
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Wanting to settle down in a permanent home has the most key benefits for your young kids. Having raised two sets of kids, one who moved a lot and two who were born and raised in one home, our experience clearly demonstrates the benefits in your kids emotional and social development are superior by having a stable base. Nomadic bus life may be fine for pre-K and older high school kids but the formative years are best nurtured in a rock solid stable environment.
Quote from: windtrader on February 02, 2018, 11:30:03 AM
but the formative years are best nurtured in a rock solid stable environment.
Depends on who, what, when and where....
your experience may differ.
I think they can be nurtured in a rock solid MCI, and they may even pick up mechanical skills along the way. Scott might need a 45 footer with slide-outs at some point, though. ;D
Any environment can offer a great environment for growing children during their formative years. My hunch is that percentage is rather low compared to kids raised in an environment where they have consistent and frequent engagement with peers. Some may point to army brats but that is different as their peers are in the same situation and face similar challenges; so in that sense there is commonality amongst their somewhat nomadic lifestyle.
Kids dropping into established communities face far different challenges. They are always the "new" kid, trying to find and fit into some compatible cliche. Then you have kids who are not even given any opportunity to meet and bond with a group of peers. It has be be a lonely experience.
Absolutely, I'm no childhood psychiatrist, just going on what I have personally observed and experienced, sprinkled with a dose of common sense.
Since we seem to be taking the point of the paternal grandparents of Scott and Heather giving them nurturing advice on child rearing ... consider this, Scott is on the road with his chosen profession. The other choice with a sticks and stones abode is that he rarely sees his kids (and vice versa) while they are in their formative years. Bin there done that, would not want to do it again. The environment Scott and Heather have the opportunity to raise their kids in, I think, is very rare, unique, and will be a positive in every way. It is really what you make it. That is just me though, I'm a busnut.
Quote from: Jim Eh. on February 03, 2018, 05:54:06 AMSince we seem to be taking the point of the paternal grandparents of Scott and Heather giving them nurturing advice on child rearing ... consider this, Scott is on the road with his chosen profession. The other choice with a sticks and stones abode is that he rarely sees his kids (and vice versa) while they are in their formative years. Bin there done that, would not want to do it again. The environment Scott and Heather have the opportunity to raise their kids in, I think, is very rare, unique, and will be a positive in every way. It is really what you make it. That is just me though, I'm a busnut.
IMO, good advice - well thought out and well stated.
The bus life lol I saw a family of 9 (7 kids) 3 dogs 1 cat living full time in a 40 ft MCI that took some planing and organizing and they had it down pat not a thing out of place but 7 kids in a 320 sq ft would be a little much for me ;D a lawnmower would be music.Congrats on the new addition you 2, dads have a huge responsibly of watching after girls I know this 1st hand I have 4 of the daddy's girls love those girls
Yup, kids need sticks and bricks...not. :-*
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Windtrader don: I honestly understand where you're coming from without a doubt. And I think Heather and I for sure will be keeping an eye out for signs of travel stress with our kids. But having myself grown up moving a LOT across different states, different cities within those states and even having a Mom who married three times, I can tell you that with the right personality I did just fine on that lifestyle. Graduated magna cum laude with highest honors, never got into drugs booze or smokes. Had a lot of great makeout sessions but waited until I met and marry my wife to take it to the next level if you get my drift. Always been a productive member of society...life has worked out well for us. But I do see and fully respect your point here
Cliff, I have daddy's girls all the way and I love it. I honestly can't express how thrilled I am to have two girls. Now when they are teens, you all better be around to help me through it....
Jim H: really well said. That's our theory right now. You nailed it. At this point, if we left the road, I'd be gone every day all day. Some weekends I'd be gone all weekend. Right now my family has me Sunday through Friday morning. Friday night through Saturday night I'm gone but I actually usually take them with me to gigs but since I have a newborn and the flu is crazy this year, they are staying home for a month or two rather than mingling with hundreds of people every weekend. I can't even imagine giving that time up. I am the first person to wake up my daughter every morning, when we snuggle in the rocker for 30 minutes and then I feed her breakfast and then she plays. At night I'm the one to read to her and then sit in the rocker for another 30 minutes before I put her in bed for the night. During the day we just have a blast. Of course I'm booking concerts and doing paperwork alongside my wife (she's the financial organizer) but my daughter always has us around. At this point, the girls have the consistency of the Bus and their parents and I wouldn't trade it for anything. That being said, I'm not dumb either..if at some point I see my girls craving a different life experience I'll do what I have to to get off the road and give that to them. They are my world now and short of spoiling them into brats, I want to give them whatever they need to grow into precious ladies who love their parents and love others and work hard.
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You seem to have the dream job ... oh, and the singing thing sounds like a great pastime.
So Scott you are saying you are a DRIFTER and in the daytime you seem to be off your ROCKER. Am I getting the picture right?
Thought I would help. ::) ;D
Hahaha. That's just about right Dave lol
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