Family Life & Kids
Time I spend feeding my family
August 12, 2009
Meals are cornerstone daily rituals we plan for, anticipate, cook, sit down and eat and of course clean up after three times each day. This makes me think it would be nice to live in a place where they only eat 2 meals a day - does such a place exist?
Life in the Woods ~ Life in the City
August 10, 2009
Two weekends ago, our family was camping in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. This past weekend Damien took the kids on the longest hike they've ever been on, almost 8 miles, up the highest mountain they've ever climbed (the 4th highest in Maine in fact). They were gone for ...
Home ~ A place of Welcoming
August 8, 2009
I want friends, family and strangers to feel welcome here. But the people I want most of all to feel welcome are my husband and children. This is their place for resting, creating, learning, eating, growing and sharing. Without them this house is just that and nothing more.
August homeschool reads
August 6, 2009
I'm on a homeschool roll these days. Maybe because I'm working on the kid's portfolios for their review in a couple weeks. I seem to recall being in an "education state of mind" last summer around this time. I've come across some interesting reads & listens lately that I wanted ...
Celine's dog Yvon
August 5, 2009
I have a bunch of things to say about project learning (not to be confused with unit studies), which I think just might be our method to this madness called homeschooling. Sometime I hope to get the ideas out of my head and onto this digital paper but in the ...
Camp character building
August 4, 2009
Pre-post introduction: We were camping this weekend. On Friday we had pre-arranged to meet a friend Damien met via the internet, John Sifferman and his wife. They met us at our campsite and we hit it off right away, that part of the day was great. What wasn't so great ...
Gone camping
July 30, 2009
I'm supposed to be cleaning up the kitchen right now, for the umpteenth time today, before we finally pack up the remaining food and head for the White Mountains in New Hampshire. Getting ready to go camping is anything but bliss and I've written before how I think that word ...
