Monthly Archives Sep 2012
The View Around Here ~ In the woods
September 28, 2012
It's wood weekend. We're renting a splitter with our friend/landlord and splitting a bunch of wood. We're sharing the work and we're sharing the wood to heat our homes this winter. We live in "woodsville" you could say. Our house is surrounded by woods. And stashed here and there and ...
Kids in the Kitchen
September 28, 2012
As much as I value kitchen work and feeding my family, I realized that if I was going to work towards some of my other goals I needed to spend less time in the kitchen.
Online Teaching ~ Some recommends from my own life
September 27, 2012
I'm in a season of learning. As homeschoolers we place a high value on lifelong learning. In fact, it's one of our family's core values. Not only do Damien and I make time for our own learning because we want to grow, but we do this to model for our ...
The Green Living Update ~ closing the chapter
September 26, 2012
I’m here to spill the beans on what I still do and don’t still do in terms of homemade soap, garbage, recycling and compost (yes, I’ve written about all of these at FIMBY), gardening and homesteading type activities and other DIY and "sustainable" living practices.
The Price of Paradise ~ My travel plans for Allume
September 24, 2012
Last Friday I shared the view from our backyard. It looks like paradise and in many ways it is. I have a "pinch me, I actually get to live here" outlook most days. When we decided to leave Maine to move back to Canada we had two criteria in looking ...
New at Outsideways
September 22, 2012
Damien and I are writing up a storm these days at Outsideways. Ok, maybe not a storm of writing, but for us it's a lot. Our goal is publish there twice a week - one meaty "ideas" post on Monday and a Thursday photo post of recent adventures (because for ...
The View Around Here ~ I washed some windows
September 21, 2012
No writing this morning. I slept in. (Usually, not always gives me the freedom to do that.) When I sat down to work I realized I had a bunch of photos I wanted to edit rather than writing. And I also wanted to hang out with my family, instead of ...
State of The Union ~ Late Elementary and Middle Years
September 19, 2012
In the coming weeks I will be sharing our homeschool curriculum and resources for the late elementary and pre-high school years. You could call these pre-high school years junior high, middle school or transition to scholar - all would work. I don't know the best definition to use, so just ...
These Two
September 18, 2012
They don't know it, but they're best friends. They spend their days playing together - all manner of games. Sneaky, hide-and-scare-mommy games are their favorite. Dressing up and stalking around the house like ninjas is also a fun one. Whispering under tents, sharing stories and plots. Building fairies houses in ...
Usually, Not Always (I Join the Organizing Party)
September 13, 2012
The internet is a flurry these days with organizing posts. Or maybe the flurry is already past (I'm not current with my blog reading) and people are moving on to planning for Christmas and drinking pumpkin lattes. I'm still living the end of summer and it takes me a good ...
Sunday's Kitchen
September 12, 2012
Meals from the season. From the generosity of friend's farms and gardens. Remember the tomato greenhouse I told you about earlier this year? (I've mentioned it several times since then also.) I was given 60 lbs of organic greenhouse tomatoes a couple weeks ago. This was the week before we ...
At The Edge
September 11, 2012
I've made an observation in my own life recently. An illumination of something that I'm pretty sure has always been there but that I haven't thought much about or been able to verbalize till now. My writing and reading are at the edge of my personal growth. I had considered ...
My Farm Fill
September 9, 2012
I got my farm fill this week. But better yet, we met two more families and are making more friends. Small scale, organic growing farm families are inspiring people to be around. They're not afraid of hard work. They usually have a lot of passion for what they do. And ...
Inspired Internet (A Short & Sweet Blog List)
September 7, 2012
For years I have read blogs through Google Reader, a service that allows you to subscribe to blogs. Instead of reading blogs by bookmarking them or searching for their address, I go one place, my goggle reader, and read what's new on the blogs I follow. If a post is ...
My New Mug
September 6, 2012
For a couple years now I have been looking for the "one mug". As we have slowly downsized our belongings (maybe too much in some cases, we have only two wine glasses now in the house) the things we do decide to keep mean that much more to us. And ...
Inspired Internet (Inspired Living)
September 5, 2012
For the past week or so I've taken a writing break. I thought I would spend that time homeschool planning instead. I can't say there has been a one to one time swap. Writing out, planning in. My life doesn't quite work that way. Taking a little break though was ...
Gone Camping
September 5, 2012
We just got home from camping. I'll share more details later this week and probably something of our trip will show up on Outsideways (Facebook here) but until then here's a little taste of the last couple days. I'm so glad we don't do "school". I like love living life ...
I like myself and I miss my curls
September 1, 2012
For several years now I've kept my hair short, very short. Damien cuts it with his clippers, just like going to the barber. I love the simplicity of short hair. I love not "doing" my hair. I am a low maintenance woman and short hair fits well with this. I ...
