Monthly Archives Jan 2011
Celebrate Winter
January 31, 2011
I love having four seasons but winter has been the most challenging for me to embrace with my whole heart. Not as a child mind you. Aside from the "inevitable" colds and flus I experienced, winter as a child was fun. (An aside about colds and flus - my own ...
Saturday Morning Inspiration
January 29, 2011
Every Saturday morning (or Sundays if we hike on Saturday) during winter and fall I prepare baked Maine apples for breakfast. Sometimes I add frozen blueberries or raspberries also. We are still eating the raspberries from our marathon picking in early July. Saturday mornings start slow around our home. We ...
Our Homeschool Day in The Life
January 28, 2011
If you've been following along at Simple Homeschool you know that during this month the various contributors have been sharing what their homeschool days look like. Today is my turn. You can read all about my homeschool day in the life with a 8, 9 & 11 year old. I've ...
Open For Business
January 26, 2011
When I started blogging six years ago it was simply a personal journal to update far away relations about our family happenings. I did that for a few years until it became apparent to me that the internet was exploding with mama bloggers (among others) sharing tales of home life, ...
Creativity in our Homeschool ~ A Little Background
January 24, 2011
I could see from the very beginning that my children wanted to make and do and I determined to give them the freedom to do that. And then a realization dawned on me, the same freedom I gave them I wanted to give myself.
Moving Forward
January 20, 2011
After keeping all of you (or some of you) in suspense we're now ready to share our big news, we have decided to return to Canada in this year of 2011. It's unbelievable the amount of mental, creative and emotional energy that have gone into that one little sentence. Many ...
How To Make Simple Soap ~ A Video Tutorial
January 17, 2011
Last September our family got a teeny, tiny video camera. We wanted this mostly for recording and producing video of our outdoor adventures, like this one of Damien's seven day hike in Wyoming last fall. Also, we have a theatrical daughter (number 3) who we thought might appreciate a tool ...
Mama Sleds
January 16, 2011
I'm missing my camera these days. Not terribly mind you (there is so much going on in our home this week I'm glad to not have the extra distraction) but enough that I'm playing around with our little video camera. Which is kind of a cute little number that let's ...
A Cardinal in an Evergreen ~ The Boy's Got a Gift
January 13, 2011
Last month as Laurent was busy creating Christmas gifts for other members of the family I dropped a not-so-subtle hint that mommy also would appreciate some art for Christmas. I'm happy being his number one fan (and the person who budgets for and buys art supplies) but it was nice ...
Introducing Toe Salad (it's not what you think)
January 11, 2011
Just over two years ago, in the fall of 2008, Damien started ADVENTUREinPROGRESS. His goal was to write about our journey of having outdoor adventures together as a family. I joined him a couple months later writing posts now and then. My most significant contributions though are as a photographer ...
Christmas with the Cousins
January 7, 2011
This may take some time to load, there's like a gazillion photos in this post. I know I closed Christmas but now that all the photos are downloaded to my computer I'm going to revisit it. Join me as I open the photo album, look back and remember all the ...
Camera Sabbatical
January 6, 2011
Starting yesterday I am taking a "forced" sabbatical from photography. For over a year now the connector cover (the little flap that closes over the USB connector and other gizmos) hasn't closed properly. I couldn't bring myself to part with my camera for an unspecified period of time, never mind ...
Closing Christmas
January 2, 2011
I learned something about myself these past couple weeks. And I learned something about my family, as in the family I have created with my husband. And that is simply this - certain traditions, routines and Christmas festivities do matter to us. I learned a lot more than this about myself, but that is for another time.
