A morning spent baking a pecan pie thank-you.
An early afternoon spent planting hyacinths and digging earthworms with the girls.
A late afternoon of immense blessing – We have been given an enormous maple loom, made right here in Oregon. We spent about two hours getting it dissassembled, carried up our narrow stairway, and reassembled.
It will need [...]
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I found these other-worldy fungi while mulching our future veggie garden on Saturday (these are a species of Inky Cap). The children were resting, and the sun was shining, so I dashed out to work on our sheet-mulched, mounded rows that will be next year’s kitchen garden (the garlic, shallots, onions, leeks are already in [...]
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Posted in Our home, Spinning on Nov 17th, 2009
A quiet afternoon yesterday – now all of us are feeling under the weather and we are doing our best to cultivate an atmosphere of peace and foster wellness. The girls were snuggling in their bed, reading Highlights and Ranger Rick, and Tum Tum was napping. A rare opportunity to enjoy a cup of coffee [...]
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We are feeling a bit like hermits, cooped-up in the house for days and days – the little ones are still wrestling with sickness, and we had to miss church again this week. Little Hen, still healthy, escaped to Grandma’s house for the weekend (a BIG thank-you to Grandma for inviting her up!).
After homemade pecan-chocolate [...]
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Posted in Nature Table, The Gift of God on Nov 13th, 2009
The two younger children are still sick, but Little Hen is perfectly healthy, so we dropped her off at homeschool co-op this morning. On the way home, the rain was pounding and the wind was whipping the trees about.
We came home and curled up on the sofa – me with a mug of coffee and [...]
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Posted in Moderation and Economy on Nov 12th, 2009
My husband had Veteran’s Day off of work, and stayed home reading the last book of The Chronicles of Prydain to some sick little kiddos. I took the opportunity to make a quick run to the thrift store and the craft store.
PACS is hands-down the best thrift store in Portland. I am never disappointed when [...]
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Posted in From my kitchen on Nov 11th, 2009
This autumn has been the hardest on our health of an season I can remember. It seems at least part of the family has been sick almost every day since September. We can’t seem to get a break of more than 3 days without someone being sick. Right now, we’ve all got a bad chest [...]
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Oregon is a wonderful place to be nursing a toddler! Tum Tum is nearly 18 months old, and I am very grateful to live in a place where doing what is normal and healthy is culturally accepted as normal and healthy. Granted, this being my third nursling, nursing past the WHO minimum recommendation of [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 4th, 2009
Look who celebrated a birthday over the weekend! Firecracker turned 5 years-old on Halloween (which is why I’m so late posting – what a busy weekend!!)
My sweet girl, Mama and Daddy are SO glad you are a part of our family! You bring such enthusiasm, such big feelings, and so much delight wherever you go. [...]
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Sigh… I’m getting a bit repetitive in my blogging and my knitting both, but I can’t stop knitting candleflame shawls!! I think this pattern is this fall what Toasty was for me last winter (and I’m still cranking those out for Christmas gifts again this year). It’s easy to memorize, easy to knit while doing [...]
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