Monthly Archives Jun 2010
Back from Vacation Blues
June 29, 2010
Sunday night we arrived home from an eight day camping vacation in the Gaspésie region of Quebec, Canada. This is the same area we visited after this past Christmas. Monday was spent as post trips days go: a bit of laundry, a run to the produce stand, some time in ...
Studying the World through Reading and Creative Play
June 28, 2010
As interest led homeschoolers we don't have an overarching history curriculum that we follow, we let our interests lead our studies.
How to Make a Summer Schedule
June 25, 2010
This is a re-post from last summer (last re-post this week, I promise). I want to just add this thought - having shared family values is I think the most important piece to making family life work well, schedules included. Once you determine what you value making decisions about how ...
How I Deal with Summer Boredom
June 23, 2010
This is a re-post from last summer, but the sentiment is the same for this year. ~~~ How do you keep your kids occupied during the summer? The thought had just never occurred to me until I read it earlier this week in a comment on a blog somewhere (I ...
Free Rainy Day Activities
June 21, 2010
This is a re-post from last summer. I'm so thankful this June has been sunshine and roses, whereas last year was rain clouds and slugs. ~~~ Imagine if you will, a couple days of rainy weather. Or worse yet, a whole week. Or the unthinkable - an entire month of ...
FIMBY on Vacation
June 19, 2010
I will be taking a FIMBY break next week. I have a few posts scheduled to publish during that time so I do hope you'll check in. I will be around minimally, checking comments and such. photo of my friend's preschooler at the beach this week I'm using this opportunity ...
Friday's Flowers ~ Lupines
June 18, 2010
This is the last Friday's Flowers for the month of June. We will resume the first friday in July. At which time I will also be drawing a winner for my soap giveaway from the May and June participants of Friday's Flowers. I'll be totally honest with you, the photo ...
Berries & Beaches ~ A Summer Manifesto
June 16, 2010
Before each summer I take time to think about what I'd like to do with the kids during these oh so brief warmer months. This is the first summer we are homeschooling year round, or at least that I am being more intentional about the kid's learning progress through the ...
Hand Washing our Dishes ~ Intentional Simplicity
June 14, 2010
This winter, while taking a mini writing break, I wrote a three sentence post about hand washing our dishes. A few people have asked me to write more about that and I agree that this subject deserves more attention than three sentences. Our family made a conscious decision this year ...
Life Is Good
June 12, 2010
The kids and I spent a couple hours at the ocean yesterday afternoon. The ocean. Friday afternoon. Blue sky. Life Is Good.
Friday's Flowers ~ For my Giraffe
June 11, 2010
Check out Simple Homeschool for my post published today Lessons Learned while Camping. Last weekend was Brienne's first ever dance recital. Celine took dance for a couple years when she was Brienne's age also. I even danced for a bit and had my own recital experience. Yikes is all I ...
Prizes, Swaps and Gifts from the Heart
June 9, 2010
One of the things I have so enjoyed about blogging is how it has expanded my circle of friends and contacts, in ways unexpected and delightful. Meeting people around the world, reading about their everyday lives, so different yet sharing similarities to my own, makes me happy. Sometimes you get ...
Audio Books ~ A Mother's Sanity Saver
June 8, 2010
What started as a tool to transition out of nap times has become a family tradition - listening to books together.
Backpacking at Horns Pond and a Creative Recharge
June 6, 2010
Today is my hiking day-off. I realized late last summer that if our family was going be hiking almost every weekend I needed a day off once every few months. Physically, emotionally and mentally. I need this time to recharge my creative batteries. photo credit: Laurent Tougas Time to putter ...
Strawberry Haiku
June 5, 2010
We picked our first strawberries from our backyard plants this week. This is insanely early for strawberries, in my opinion, but who's complaining. We're waiting on the organic u-pick farm berries to ripen before we go strawberry pickin' in earnest. For now we'll snack on berries from the backyard. Brienne ...
Friday's Flowers ~ Beauty in Busy
June 4, 2010
I thought I was doing good. I was doing good. Then spring and summer collided and my careful scheduling of our days to give us time to explore, create, learn, play and manage our home went flying out the window. Oh, I don't do good with transitions. To put things ...
Blogging is my Part Time (unpaid) Job
June 2, 2010
I call these type of posts blog navel gazing. This kind of introspection can be tedious to read. Feel free to skip right over it and come back another day, knowing of course you'll miss out on all my deep, dark blogging secrets. This month I've spent a lot of ...
Home again, home again
June 1, 2010
We got home a couple hours ago from our Memorial Day backpacking trip up to Horns Pond in Bigelow Maine. I'm absolutely exhausted in the best kind of way. Going to bed early and looking oh so forward to sleeping in my own climate controlled bedroom. I looked over a ...
