Posted in Learning, Our home, Playing/ Free Exploration, Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on Mar 1st, 2010
We scrapped all other plans for today,
and simply played in in the dirt.
As Firecracker said, “There’s nothin’ more natural than gettin’ dirty.”
Somehow, in the midst of playing “dirt fairies”, “cruel dirt queen who makes her workers dig all day”, “climb dirt mountain”, “search for worms and buried treasure”, and “fill and empty buckets of [...]
Posted in Homemaking, Mothering tool kit, Our home, Uncategorized on Feb 4th, 2010
The past month has been an opportunity to re-evaluate what we value as a family – to really examine what we strive to be and to accomplish. Although unintentional, the blogging break these past several weeks has been very therapeutic for our whole family. (Actually, it was a break from all computer-related activities).
I realized how [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Changing Seasons, Moderation and Economy, Mothering tool kit, Our home on Sep 28th, 2009
Some friends recently asked how we share sleep with our youngest while he’s in cloth diapers. Overnight leaks are a worry, even with doublers and the “good covers” saved for night time. To safeguard the mattress, we don’t use expensive wool mattress pads (which sound fabulous, but are way out of the budget) or those [...]
Posted in Our home, Playing/ Free Exploration on Jul 5th, 2009
Little Hen and I picking wildflowers in the yard,
and cutting out new paperdolls from Grandma,
while the little ones take a nice long nap.
I think that makes for a pretty good Sunday afternoon.
Posted in Changing Seasons, Crafting, Learning, Nature Table, Our home, Outings, Playing/ Free Exploration, Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on May 31st, 2009
While not technically summer, the very warm, sunny weather of late has been pointing us in that direction. The girls and I have cleared away the spring table and begun to gather items for our summer table. It’s just beginning to take shape – rocks from a nature hike, sweet alyssum from the yard, beeswax [...]
Posted in Our home, Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on May 11th, 2009
Ever since I was a girl, and our neighbors in San Antonio grew lemons in their backyard, I have wanted a lemon tree of my own. But of course, in the Pacific Northwest, planting a citrus grove in your backyard is not realistic.
Our new home has a large L-shaped bank of windows in the front [...]
Posted in Moderation and Economy, Our home, Outings on May 5th, 2009
First off, an apology on this Wordpress Theme – it’s having issues, I don’t like it, and will probably be changing it soon. I’m in the middle of trying to work up a custom header, as well (that’s tougher than I realized!) so things maybe a bit wonky for a few days.
Okay, on to the [...]
Posted in Our home on Apr 29th, 2009
The breakfast nook is finished! A few late nights after the girls were asleep, with Tum Tum on my back, and we now have a place to eat our oatmeal and take tea in the afternoon.
The walls are Behr’s Butter Cookie in Sateen finish.
The trim, beadboard and cabinest took 4 coats of white semigloss.
Now to [...]
Posted in Our home, Playing/ Free Exploration on Apr 27th, 2009
Life is crazy right now, but I am trying to enjoy the peaceful moments where I can find them. We are in our new house, and have been fighting off a family-wide chest cold for the past week. Everything is still a complete mess – half-unpacked boxes everywhere, still in the midst of painting the [...]
