An Emerging High Schooler, Interest-led, Learner-Specific Homeschool Curriculum

An Emerging High Schooler, Interest-led, Learner-Specific Homeschool Curriculum

Oh my word. That's a mouthful of a title. I originally started this post as an overview of all three of our kids' homeschool curriculum. Yikes. If I had continued down that track it would never have seen the light of day. So I decided to limit this to Céline's ...

Home Again

Home Again

We're home again from our brief, one night hiking trip on the IAT in New Brunswick. Québec charges backpackers a fee to hike the Québec portion of The International Appalachian Trail or Sentier international des Appalaches. These fees are modest (though still high in my estimation) for a single backpacker. ...

Embracing Fall ~ A 31 Day Blog Recommend

Embracing Fall ~ A 31 Day Blog Recommend

We are busy getting out the door to go backpacking on this chilly fall weekend but I wanted to mention a 31 Days of Blogging series I'm really enjoying this month (it relates to chilly fall days). My friend Spring is blogging 31 Days of Embracing Autumn: So Long Seasonal ...

The View Around Here ~ Warmth

The View Around Here ~ Warmth

The fire is crackling near my toes, snow is lightly falling outside (yes snow, it won't stay), my coffee in hand. Could this morning be more cozy? It was cold and wet in our neck of the woods this week. After the glory that has been our autumn so far, ...

Fall Running

Fall Running

I'm running this morning in a community race. One of the races we talked about this post at Outsideways. The last two family races we did I ran short distances with Brienne. I'm not much of a runner and but even I could handle the 1 kilmometer distance! Problem was, ...

A weekend blessing

A weekend blessing

May you greet the day with hope and expectation. Live with brilliance and blue skies.

Going Paper-less in my Kitchen ~ Digital Recipe Storage

Going Paper-less in my Kitchen ~ Digital Recipe Storage

This topic has generated quite a bit of interest from readers and I'm happy to share what works for me in this regard. Like in my first post on digital organizing, I will be sharing what I use and what works for me. This is not an exhaustive list of ...