A few weeks ago, I was asked by a friend with younger children and plans of homeschooling them how I went about our days and how I was able to homeschool the bigger kids with a little one in tow. As we spoke, I was reminded of those early years of parenting–reading everything I could [...]
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Always learning
Posted in family, children, home, tagged family, mother, homeschooling, unschooling on February 8, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Take off
Posted in children, cycles, family, home, tagged family, home, mother, rhythym, seasons on February 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Really quick, before we slip into February and the year is officially on its way, let’s pretend that all year we will be as poised and ready for flight as we are in the freshness of January. I have had this list floating around in my head for the past month or so, taking shape, [...]
January through the lens
Posted in children, cycles, farm, farming, home, winter, tagged family, farming, home, seasons, winter on January 28, 2012 | 2 Comments »
A small look at what our month has been full of: yo-yo’s keeping warm with new Christmas hats from Grandma sunny (and wet) winter harvests and yummy winter meals rain and rain and floods wet explorations, loads of splashing, and oh so much puddle jumping baby goat joy and tragedy and many hours of learning, [...]
Happy (Chinese) New Year!
Posted in family, farm, farming, health, home, tagged family, home, mother, rhythym, seasons on January 24, 2012 | 2 Comments »
This year I think I’ll throw my lot in with the Chinese calender and call this the start of a (great) new year. I am a dragon child after all; according to the eastern skies this will, indeed, be a year meant for me. There was a part of me itching to go right after [...]
Let your heart be light
Posted in children, home, winter, tagged family, home, seasons, winter on December 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, the day I planned to take a holiday photo of all of my beautiful 1,000–I mean4!–children happened to also be the day that our oldest child’s face was puffed up like a balloon and covered in a terrible poison oak rash. Needless to say, that photo wasn’t an option. He is gradually getting better; [...]


