Monthly Archives Aug 2009
August Sweet Stuff
August 31, 2009
Guess I was wrong! People do read blogs on Sunday night - maybe I'm the only one who doesn't. I'm so excited to share more of our weekend trip but I need to spend time going through the photos first. While I'm putting that all together you can check out ...
Back from Backpacking ~ Content, Tired & Hungry
August 30, 2009
We just got home from our first "carry everything on your back" trip. The weekend was phenomenal in so many ways. Not what I necessarily expected but so much more! I will talk about it more this week but I just need to post these photos tonight. Now. That's how ...
Gone backpacking
August 29, 2009
That's right baby. This weekend we are backpacking. For real. By the time you're reading this we've already hiked into our site, carrying all our supplies for 2 nights and 3 days (plus the camera) on our backs, including a tent and shelter. You know what this means don't know ...
A bare-bones homeschool library and reluctant readers
August 28, 2009
A homeschool library Earlier this summer I was asked the following: Since you keep your at home book collection small, I'd love to hear about which books you do think are worth owning vs. borrowing. People will disagree with me on this but I don't think it's worth owning much, ...
August in my back yard
August 26, 2009
A slightly melancholy late summer poem. Words cannot fully express the ache that comes to my heart this time of year. Knowing this season of summer growth and beauty will end while fall's time of change and routine anxiously waits in the wings to begin. Not enough time, the month ...
A homeschool portfolio review
August 26, 2009
In the state of Maine there are a couple legal options for homeschooling. You can register with a private school (and I think you can even become a private school) or send the Department of Education yearly notifications of 1) your intent to homeschool and 2) a copy of a ...
summer sacrifices ~ thoughts on owning a rental
August 24, 2009
In these parts our home is called, a 2 family house. Where we are from originally this type of house is called a "house with a suite or mother-in-law apartment". Regardless of what it's called the idea is the same; part of our house is an apartment/suite/flat that we rent ...
Calendula, Salves and an Easy Soap Recipe
August 22, 2009
A bit of everything: why I love calendula, salve making and a soap recipe.
Handmade Home book release party
August 21, 2009
Last Friday night before our anniversary supper date Damien and I attended SouleMama's book release party for Handmade Home. Silly but true: I was nervous about meeting thee SouleMama in person. She's one of the most well known bloggers in the crafty mama world which makes her kind of... famous. ...
love, marriage and a dinner out
August 19, 2009
We celebrated our 13th anniversary last Friday night. We went to Portland, our favorite Maine city hang-out and ate supper at a divine "real food" restaurant. An innovative local place with vegan, veggie and even gluten and corn free options. It was so wonderful. I get wistful even now, in ...
Slushies and Tabouleh salad for a hot summer day
August 18, 2009
There's a couple recipes in this post, just scroll past my whining to find them. I'm taking a blogging "break" (that's a joke since blogging is a break for me and everything else I'm dealing with right now is plain old work) but that doesn't mean I can't send out ...
Hitting the wall
August 16, 2009
I'm so beyond exhausted right now with the work of marriage, mothering and home making.
Time I spend feeding my family
August 12, 2009
Meals are cornerstone daily rituals we plan for, anticipate, cook, sit down and eat and of course clean up after three times each day. This makes me think it would be nice to live in a place where they only eat 2 meals a day - does such a place exist?
anniversary afternoon rainshower
August 12, 2009
It was a hot summer day yesterday, wonderfully so after all the rain we've had this summer. Having decided to make a special supper for my family to celebrate our anniversary I subjected myself to even more heat by firing up the stove to cook roasted tomato & basil soup, ...
Life in the Woods ~ Life in the City
August 10, 2009
Two weekends ago, our family was camping in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. This past weekend Damien took the kids on the longest hike they've ever been on, almost 8 miles, up the highest mountain they've ever climbed (the 4th highest in Maine in fact). They were gone for ...
Saturday's flowers
August 10, 2009
While my family was off hiking in the mountains yesterday I spent most of my day gardening. First I cut flowers for indoors. A fresh bouquet with steaming coffee, ahh... the very best way to start a day. sunflower leaf Then I worked. I weeded, pruned and deadheaded in all ...
Home ~ A place of Welcoming
August 8, 2009
I want friends, family and strangers to feel welcome here. But the people I want most of all to feel welcome are my husband and children. This is their place for resting, creating, learning, eating, growing and sharing. Without them this house is just that and nothing more.
The economics of eating local
August 7, 2009
I don't know what things are like where you live but around here local foods cost more. This seems a shame but the reality is that local food costs reflect the true cost of food.
August homeschool reads
August 6, 2009
I'm on a homeschool roll these days. Maybe because I'm working on the kid's portfolios for their review in a couple weeks. I seem to recall being in an "education state of mind" last summer around this time. I've come across some interesting reads & listens lately that I wanted ...
Celine's dog Yvon
August 5, 2009
I have a bunch of things to say about project learning (not to be confused with unit studies), which I think just might be our method to this madness called homeschooling. Sometime I hope to get the ideas out of my head and onto this digital paper but in the ...
Camp character building
August 4, 2009
Pre-post introduction: We were camping this weekend. On Friday we had pre-arranged to meet a friend Damien met via the internet, John Sifferman and his wife. They met us at our campsite and we hit it off right away, that part of the day was great. What wasn't so great ...
Home again
August 2, 2009
It was an interesting weekend. One rainy, rainy day that was very difficult, I'll share more tomorrow, and then 2 days that were sunny and better. I feel like I've been through the emotional ringer and even though home is my refuge I'm not quite sure how I feel to ...
