Sleeping

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Some older photos for Wordless Wednesday of some strange or awkward looking sleeping positions my kids have had!

Happy Halloween!

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It has been a while since I posted anything. I keep meaning to post and have lots to write about, but then I wonder where I should start. Back in the summer where I left off, or from where we are now, or somewhere in between? Well, it’s NaBloPoMo this month and it seems [...]

Today we…

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We had a busy day today. I got woken up by a strange sound. It took me a few minutes before I realized  it was a rooster crowing! I’m not sure which one it was, but one of the roosters has finally found his voice. I joked with Kris that the hens were behind [...]

Sunday Surf

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I don’t promise to actually be able to do this regularly, but I have some more links to share this week so thought I’d participate in Hobo Mama’s Sunday Surf.

Image credit: Louma Sader Bujana

First, you may have already heard of the plight of

Spring days

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Just a little taste of what we’ve been doing lately. Click any picture to see it bigger.

Painting, yes her hands really are moving that fast. Somewhere under all that paint there is a piece of paper too.

Lots of outdoor play [...]

My Country Lyrics

One of the first things I often do when I find a new song I really like is go find the lyrics. But I searched for the lyrics for the song I posted yesterday and didn’t have any luck, so I wrote them down myself and thought I’d share them here too. I don’t [...]

My Country

Annie shared this over on her blog recently. I found the video very touching and poignant. Though the video is about oil and a very specific part of Canada, a lot of what she says applies to other areas of our country as well. My dad once flew over Vancouver Island [...]

Making butter

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A friend gets raw milk from a local farm, and they have lots of extra this time of year, so we took a bottle to try out. Though I am confident Kris and Meredith at least, and Fiona likely, are allergic to the store-bought, processed milk, I do wonder if raw milk would be [...]

Spring!

Well, we’re still getting a lot of rain, but the sun is slowly making itself known again.

Which means trips to the playground with friends, new and old. Meredith has been loving her bike so far this year. We wanted to get her a run bike, or convert this one to [...]

Update

I feel like there is so much to do around here that we will never not have something that needs done again. I love it though, really. Occasionally I feel a bit overwhelmed by everything, but mostly it’s so neat to be doing all these things for our own place and trying things that [...]

“If you try to teach your children all the fact and answers you think they need to know, they will end up knowing nothing.
If instead you help them look deep within themselves, you will have led them to the source, from where all answers flow.”
~ William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching

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