Monthly Archives Oct 2012
How to Homeschool the Preschool Years
October 31, 2012
In your heart you know this is a very special time. Everything is new and exciting to your child, their enthusiasm is boundless (your energy is not!), and they help you see the world through fresh eyes. This is the beautiful first step on the interest-led homeschooling journey. But your ...
Home From Allume
October 30, 2012
I am home today. Home yesterday in fact but last night I slept in my bed and that makes it official. I am home to the woods and woodsmoke. The stark reality of trees with no leaves. (Pennsylvania trees have not yet lost their glory, that was a nice treat ...
Our Work Goals & Vision
October 28, 2012
We've been talking a bit about work for the past couple weeks and I'm going to continue on that theme because this is where we're at right now. It's what's fresh in our lives and our writing. We're trying to answer the question (for our family's unique situation) "how can ...
Saturday Inspiration
October 27, 2012
I'm at Allume right now. I had thought I might write while here. That's not happening. There is just way too much going on in real life. I'm having the time of my life. I have met so many beautiful women. My anxieties were completely unfounded (hint: anxiety usually is) ...
An ESTJ on her way to Allume
October 25, 2012
I'm on my way to Allume right now. My first ever blogging conference. I'm both incredibly excited and a tad anxious about going to Allume. I love new experiences but they also make me nervous simply because I don't know what to expect. And I have no grid whatsoever for ...
We Have a Store (homeschool, health, adventure, natural family living support and services)
October 23, 2012
I have some exciting news to share - we have a store! In the past I've talked about the iterative process Damien and I use to flesh out ideas in our life. And how those ideas keep moving forward but usually in a slow, cyclical fashion until we finally do ...
Season's Eatings
October 22, 2012
Today I'm pleased to introduce Leah Cherry to FIMBY. Leah Cherry teaches children and their families how to cook, sew, make and grow – traditional talents that remain essential for living well today. Her business, Skill It, is founded on the belief that working with your hands nourishes your spirit ...
What Remains
October 22, 2012
October has been stormy and wet. The days have been mostly grey. The gusts have blown the leaves from the trees and the rain has swollen the rivers and streams. What remains now for color, stark against mostly naked branches, is yellow. Some leaves and the feathery needles of the ...
He Cooks ~ He Shops
October 19, 2012
One of our goals when we moved was to build a livelihood together at the intersection of our skills and passion, expertise and interests. We don't have a specific "career" in mind for either of us. Instead, we envision our work as an ongoing evolution of projects and ideas that ...
An Emerging High Schooler, Interest-led, Learner-Specific Homeschool Curriculum
October 15, 2012
Oh my word. That's a mouthful of a title. I originally started this post as an overview of all three of our kids' homeschool curriculum. Yikes. If I had continued down that track it would never have seen the light of day. So I decided to limit this to Céline's ...
Home Again
October 15, 2012
We're home again from our brief, one night hiking trip on the IAT in New Brunswick. Québec charges backpackers a fee to hike the Québec portion of The International Appalachian Trail or Sentier international des Appalaches. These fees are modest (though still high in my estimation) for a single backpacker. ...
Embracing Fall ~ A 31 Day Blog Recommend
October 13, 2012
We are busy getting out the door to go backpacking on this chilly fall weekend but I wanted to mention a 31 Days of Blogging series I'm really enjoying this month (it relates to chilly fall days). My friend Spring is blogging 31 Days of Embracing Autumn: So Long Seasonal ...
The View Around Here ~ Warmth
October 12, 2012
The fire is crackling near my toes, snow is lightly falling outside (yes snow, it won't stay), my coffee in hand. Could this morning be more cozy? It was cold and wet in our neck of the woods this week. After the glory that has been our autumn so far, ...
Fall Running
October 8, 2012
I'm running this morning in a community race. One of the races we talked about this post at Outsideways. The last two family races we did I ran short distances with Brienne. I'm not much of a runner and but even I could handle the 1 kilmometer distance! Problem was, ...
A weekend blessing
October 6, 2012
May you greet the day with hope and expectation. Live with brilliance and blue skies.
Going Paper-less in my Kitchen ~ Digital Recipe Storage
October 5, 2012
This topic has generated quite a bit of interest from readers and I'm happy to share what works for me in this regard. Like in my first post on digital organizing, I will be sharing what I use and what works for me. This is not an exhaustive list of ...
Naysayers & Negativity ~ At Outsideways
October 3, 2012
In my coaching and comments from readers I've noticed a theme that comes up often. How do you deal with people who naysay your decision to homeschool, eat vegan, to home birth, etc. I've thought about this a lot because we've dealt with it in our own lives. Today on ...
Digital Organizing ~ Ideas & To-Do's
October 2, 2012
I've been mentioning on the blog how I'm going more digital in my organizing and home management. I haven't written any dedicated posts because I'm a relative newbie at digital organization and I wasn't sure how much interest there was from readers for something like that. Well, apparently, there's quite ...
Wood Work
October 1, 2012
That was a great weekend. A busy, working weekend but the most enjoyable kind of work there is. Work done with friends. Work with a very tangible reward, heat for our homes this winter. Work that engages our body and gives the kids a chance to operate power tools. Work ...
