Family Life & Kids


When You Feel Inadequate

When You Feel Inadequate

Ever have one of those days, or weeks or months when you feel woefully inadequate as a homeschooler or mother? Yeah, me too.

Hello April, Please Be Kind

Hello April, Please Be Kind

I have debated for days whether I should write this post. Every time I sit down to write I have at least ten ideas on the go vying for my attention. So if I take the time to write about how difficult the month of March was those other ideas ...

Outdoor Parents Outdoor Kids ~ A Book Review

Outdoor Parents Outdoor Kids ~ A Book Review

Moving right along with our Spring Book series (let's just call it a series for fun) I've got a book review just in time to help you get outdoors more this spring and summer (and hopefully all year round) with your family. Last summer when Damien and I went to ...

On Being (and Saturday mornings)

On Being (and Saturday mornings)

On Saturday mornings I make baked apples for my family for breakfast. This is one of our family's food rituals, a touchstone to our week, and I love the comfort and simplicity of it. I drink my coffee. I cut the apples. I kiss and hug my children as they ...

Sugaring! (& a Spring Reading List)

Sugaring! (& a Spring Reading List)

For years I've read seasonal stories to my children. Stories in general but I do love marking the seasons in our reading also.

There Are No Formulas

There Are No Formulas

This weekend Damien spent some time poring over maps and the Internet, starting to think about our summer adventures. He came to the conclusion that we are going to have to blaze our own trail a bit this summer, in terms of backpacking trips in the peninsula. And so it ...

Return To Center

Return To Center

Everybody has their individual practices that ground them and bring their focus back to those most important things in life. Yesterday I needed to reconnect with mine. I needed to come back to center. (I do love this phrase from the yoga world, though I don't practice yoga.) Computers are ...