Family Life & Kids
Home again, home again
June 1, 2010
We got home a couple hours ago from our Memorial Day backpacking trip up to Horns Pond in Bigelow Maine. I'm absolutely exhausted in the best kind of way. Going to bed early and looking oh so forward to sleeping in my own climate controlled bedroom. I looked over a ...
Friday's Flowers ~ Celebrating Celine
May 28, 2010
This second ever edition of Friday's Flowers is dedicated to Celine. We are leaving to go backpacking today so I didn't pick any fresh flowers this week to molder on the kitchen table while we are gone. The bouquet photos in this post are from last weekend's celebration of Celine's ...
Summer in the City
May 27, 2010
There is a very easy summer recipe at the end of this post. It's been a full day of summer. Three full days of summer really. I don't remember a warmer May since moving here. I even watered my garden tonight for the first (or maybe second) time ever in ...
A day in the woods to process life
May 24, 2010
I have had much on my mind these days. The change of season from spring to summer and all that entails for family life, figuring out how to manage our small gardens in just a couple hours a week, the growing of my children (Celine turned eleven this weekend, e-leven!), ...
Strangers in Our Front Yard
May 17, 2010
A funny thing happened to me while I was taking the bus to meet my mom for our girl's weekend. I met a couple traveling on the same bus and after 5 minutes of knowing them invited the two (perfect strangers) to come stay at our home. They showed up ...
Involving Dad in your Homeschool
May 12, 2010
Interrupting our week of eats to direct you to my latest post at Simple Homeschool, Involving Dad in Your Homeschool. he juices oranges, he teaches the kids computer programming... he's Wonder Dad! Excerpt from that post: If you are like “the average” homeschooling family, one parent is largely responsible for ...
I go to the woods
April 28, 2010
We went backpacking last weekend to Gentian Pond. Here are a couple trip reports from last summer: Gentian Pond Trip Report and The rest of the backpacking story. On Friday we hiked 3.5 miles up to the shelter and set up camp there. Saturday we took a short mid-day hike ...
