I'm ok

I'm ok

After the flood of e-mail (ok, four or so), including one this morning from my mom "you ok?", and comments to Friday's post I feel I need to come back to reassure you all. Everything's ok. It always has been but there is some upheaval in our family life right ...

Flowers at the Farm

Flowers at the Farm

This has been an incredibly difficult week for me. And to add insult to injury I can't talk too much about it here and that's hard. I like writing out my angst. You should see the scrawl in my journals these days. I briefly considered not taking my camera to ...

Who Needs to Knit?

Who Needs to Knit?

The last knitting project I was working on stalled at about this point: This photo is from last Christmas when I decided, after too many mistakes to count, to frog my first pair of socks. The fact that they are "froggy" green is simply a sweet irony. This brings the ...

A Little RSS Mishap ~ Don't Miss my Kitchen Post

A Little RSS Mishap ~ Don't Miss my Kitchen Post

Have you seen today's post about canning, preserving and a weekly menu? Last week when I scheduled it to publish this morning I made a small error that resulted in Google reader picking up the post a whole three days early. Ie: if you read blogs through Google reader the ...

August's Kitchen and a Weekly Menu

August's Kitchen and a Weekly Menu

This summer has been a fabulous growing season, unlike last year's disappointing months of rain. Simply fabulous. I am loving summer. And I am loving our share at the farm. With a csa you share the risk but you also share the bounty, and what a bounty it is. August ...

Intimacies

Intimacies

We celebrated our fourteenth anniversary this week with an over-night getaway to Bethel, Maine's most beautiful mountain village. If memory serves me well (Damien thinks we may have done this once though I don't recall) this is our first ever over-night trip without any children. What with no relatives living ...

3 Lessons Learned for the Beginner Homeschooler

3 Lessons Learned for the Beginner Homeschooler

Eleven years ago our family started this home education journey with the birth of our oldest child. We never did try a public or private school option. Homeschooling is all we know. Our family's experience is limited to elementary aged education. So I'm certainly no expert on the subject of ...