Family Life & Kids
Project learning ~ Bedrooms and Dollhouses (& Pond building too)
September 4, 2009
During the craziness of last month I alluded to getting Celine started on a project. I also briefly mentioned the perhaps projects are our home education modus operandi. I'm not sure I'm ready to hang my hat totally on that idea but my kiddos sure do learn an awful lot ...
The sunflowers of late summer
September 2, 2009
Late summer is all about sunflowers - don't you think? It's also about transitions and shifting to new routines. So although these first days of September are blue sky beautiful, the type of weather so lovely it's almost dreamy, daily home life have been somewhat tumultuous. Coming down from the ...
Simple living myths
September 1, 2009
I feel almost like a fraud writing about the simple life. These last two months have been very hectic due to circumstances we had not planned and I've been living life at the edge of chaos. Granted my edge is probably different from most and even at the point of ...
Back from Backpacking ~ Content, Tired & Hungry
August 30, 2009
We just got home from our first "carry everything on your back" trip. The weekend was phenomenal in so many ways. Not what I necessarily expected but so much more! I will talk about it more this week but I just need to post these photos tonight. Now. That's how ...
Gone backpacking
August 29, 2009
That's right baby. This weekend we are backpacking. For real. By the time you're reading this we've already hiked into our site, carrying all our supplies for 2 nights and 3 days (plus the camera) on our backs, including a tent and shelter. You know what this means don't know ...
summer sacrifices ~ thoughts on owning a rental
August 24, 2009
In these parts our home is called, a 2 family house. Where we are from originally this type of house is called a "house with a suite or mother-in-law apartment". Regardless of what it's called the idea is the same; part of our house is an apartment/suite/flat that we rent ...
love, marriage and a dinner out
August 19, 2009
We celebrated our 13th anniversary last Friday night. We went to Portland, our favorite Maine city hang-out and ate supper at a divine "real food" restaurant. An innovative local place with vegan, veggie and even gluten and corn free options. It was so wonderful. I get wistful even now, in ...
