This space called mid-winter
February 11, 2007
Winter routines slighty tiresome and weary. Like Laurent, who wants soil for planting seeds, wondering when I can dig in the dirt again. At the same time, not wanting to be there... quite yet. Reminding myself enjoy the skating, hot cocoa, reading books on the couch. The snowpants and mittens ...
creative mess
February 2, 2007
What does homeschooling look like today? In a word, messy. It started this morning with finding flat plastic trays to catch the mess and water under our seedling trays. Celine and I took an adult ed course last night on starting seedlings indoors and came home with some seeds carefully ...
winter routines & blahs
January 31, 2007
I'm very good at setting routines, planning schedules and imagining how disciplined I'm going to be. Give me a few weeks though and inevitably I hit the "I'm tired of this routine" stage. Maybe it's the colder weather, for which I'm actually grateful after watching An Inconvenient Truth. Maybe it's ...
Canadian, eh?
January 22, 2007
There is much I enjoy about our weekly skating outing with the kids. But one aspect that is especially poignant is how Canadian I feel skating around the arena. This is just something that Canadians do - and I'm proud to be a part of it. It's also worth noting ...
Snow Days
January 17, 2007
The snow we've been waiting for has finally arrived. Not as much as we'd like but we'll take whatever we can get. With the snow comes the wet, dripping snowpants, mittens and scarves, drying by the front door radiator. But I welcome that clothesrack with the little puddles underneath because ...
Christmas January update
January 8, 2007
We're slowly getting into the January groove and have pretty much finished the cleaning, house re-arranging, laundry and pantry restocking after my family's visit with us this Christmas. My parents came for 10 days and my brother, his wife and 3 kids were here for one week. During the 5 ...
