Everywhere I look, green. At every meal of the day, collard greens and mustard greens and kale greens, alongside dark green kale rapinis and light green turnip rapini. There are some purples working there way in as we harvest wild violets for fun and the sprouting broccoli from the field, and the purple cape cauliflowers [...]
Posts Tagged ‘family’
Seeing green (and red)
Posted in children, duality, family, farming, food saftey, home, politics, seasonal eating, spring, weather, tagged family, farming, food politics, history, home, homeschooling, mother, potato famine, seasons, spring, unschooling on March 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Each time
Posted in children, cycles, family, farming, home, local food, seasonal eating, weather, tagged family, farming, mother, nature, rhythym, seasons on March 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Let me tell you, it is just as fun the fourth time around as the first, second, and third. Each time, it has been equally exciting and amazing. Those first milky smiles and baby coos, the learning to crawl and then those first stumble-y steps…breathtaking. Right now, we are discovering books. We read from 2-3 [...]
My Valentine(s): about a week late
Posted in children, family, gratitude, home, tagged family, gratitude, home, love, mother, valentine's day on February 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I had saved this photo of the farmer for a Valentine’s Day post, snapped about a month ago on some winter’s day when he was on one of his many piano playing breaks from farm work and the sun was shining through our kitchen window just as to illuminate briefly the beauty ever present in [...]
Always learning
Posted in children, family, home, tagged family, homeschooling, mother, unschooling on February 8, 2012 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Looking for spring
Posted in changes, children, family, farm, farming, nature, spring, tagged family, farming, homeschooling, nature study, spring on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Today was so brilliant! It was decidedly sunny and that sun felt so good. The kids and I spent nearly all day outside. We started out there this morning with songs and times tables, and after a quick trip inside to do some writing, we happily returned out of doors for picnics and stories and [...]


