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Spring Tomatoes and Growing Where You're Planted

Spring Tomatoes and Growing Where You're Planted

Spring is usually a busy time of year for me in the garden. This year it's busy for a whole bunch of different reasons. Without a garden I'm in a real season of "blooming where I'm planted" and being creative with what this looks like. Our housing situation is not ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ides of March (on St. Patrick's Day)

Ides of March (on St. Patrick's Day)

(No Weekend Edition links today.) I just learned about the Ides of March this week. We were reading Chapter 35 in The Story of The World: Ancient Times (the one that's taken us about 2 years to read through) and came across the significance of March 15th. While reading the ...

Winter Intentions ~ The Nitty Gritty

Winter Intentions ~ The Nitty Gritty

{All the photos in this post and last week's post on winter intentions are from our January ski vacation. Realizing I probably won't get around to writing a post dedicated to that trip I'm working photos of that trip into these two posts.} When I shared my fall intentions last ...

Moving Challenges ~ Counting to 1,000 ~ Winter Ski Vacation

Moving Challenges ~ Counting to 1,000 ~ Winter Ski Vacation

This has been an amazing move for our family and the months since we left Maine last May and then arrived here in Gaspé last fall have been full to the brim with blessings. Honestly, it's like I've been given a gift - the gift of dreams coming true and ...