Monthly Archives Mar 2007

Why we have children

Why we have children

Have you heard the latest news? Angelina has adopted another child. I read about it on the cover of People Magazine today while in the grocery store. When I got back to the car, where my family was waiting, I proceeded to tell Damien about the news. We agreed that ...

WellTellMe.com

WellTellMe.com

I want to introduce you all to this cool web site called welltellme.com, a forum dedicated to natural health and wellbeing. I've gone there recently to figure out how to: Cure a UTI -lots of cranberry juice, blueberries, vit C and no sugar. How to make my own dishwasher soap ...

Morning reading

Morning reading

Lewiston Riverwalk Trees I want to share a passage from McKibben's book. He's just written about how his environmentalism springs not so much from altruistic motivations but from his desire to save the wild places he loves. He then goes on to say: For me, then, one of the reasons ...

Discovering Home

Discovering Home

I'm currently reading Bill McKibben's book "Wandering Home". I really enjoy McKibben's writing and his essays and articles seem to keep turning up in the publications I read. There are two things, predominantly, that I am enjoying about this book.

Wet morning outdoors

Wet morning outdoors

The kids and I enjoyed a morning outside yesterday. The weather was warm and snow was melting, in addition it was raining so there were lots of puddles to jump in! We are expecting some more winter weather this weekend but yesterday we enjoyed a precursor to spring!

quotes of the day

quotes of the day

I made a vegetable, barley and bean soup for the kids for lunch today. When Laurent was finished devouring his first bowl he exclaimed "this soup is fabulous mommy!" Wow, that's a fairly strong compliment. Tonight the kids were wrestling with Daddy. Brienne came huffing, puffing and panting into the ...

Spring cleaning... if I must

Spring cleaning... if I must

I hadn't planned on spring cleaning and perhaps that's best. If it was written in my planner it would of been one more thing to do, another project to try to squeeze in to my day. A project that would keep getting re-scheduled, assigned to next month and the next.

Better left un-blogged

Better left un-blogged

Some weeks are better left un-blogged. Like these past few weeks... The kids have all been sick and some days it seems I've spent my time equally between the bathroom and the washing machine. And then I've been awakened at night by children needing changes of pj's and bedding....