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Spring Tomatoes and Growing Where You're Planted
May 3, 2012
Spring is usually a busy time of year for me in the garden. This year it's busy for a whole bunch of different reasons. Without a garden I'm in a real season of "blooming where I'm planted" and being creative with what this looks like. Our housing situation is not ...
Ready, Set... May (& We're Going To Montreal)
May 1, 2012
So, so much going on this month, where to start. The school books are now closed, and we're starting a two month break from our regular learning routine (all that stuff I wrote about in this curriculum post). Celine will continue with her self-directed studies and Damien will continue to ...
This Past School Year's Curriculum
April 30, 2012
I'm at Simple Homeschool today talking the curriculum we used this past year during our big year of transition from interest-led elementary into the middle school years. This was just one of many transitions for our family this past year.
A Song from the Suds
April 29, 2012
As a writer, mother, cook, lover, homemaker, reader, adventurer, photographer, and everything else I do and am, I sometimes feel myself torn between three worlds. The world of my head. The world of my heart. The world of my hands. I love to read. To turn my mind to higher ...
Babies, Birth Stories & Books (a link to Laurent's birth story)
April 28, 2012
If I had been blogging when my children were babies, over a decade ago, FIMBY would be a blog about birth and midwifery care, diapers and physical exhaustion. It would be about my life with littles. I'd probably talk a bit about all the work I went through changing our ...
An Iterative Process & Spring Breakthroughs
April 25, 2012
Damien and I move forward in our life goals through an iterative process. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it's geek speak for the cyclical process of refining an idea, with each refinement (or repetition) getting you closer to the desired goal. What this means practically is that ...
More Spring Science (& Writing)
April 23, 2012
The kids are keen about a topic and naturally have something they want to share. We sit down together over several days (or just one short session) to get out the thoughts, edit and then publish. Most times "publishing" is simply me handwriting or typing what they want to say.
