Pad Thai

This is a recipe my friend Debbie shared with me, and it is so delicious. We have had it numerous times since she shared it, so I thought I would post it here so it will be easier to find (rather than searching through the depths of my Facebook messages). 2 [...]

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 [...]

Teenagers…

Meredith, Fiona, and I went to another LLL meeting this morning. The meetings are held in a building on a school ground. Afterwards, Meredith wanted to play at the playground so we stopped to play for a bit. While we were playing, two older girls showed up. Considering it was an elementary school, they [...]

Angel

I thought these pictures were sweet. We were at a meeting for parents who practice EC hosted monthly by Deirdre at Continuum Family. Meredith loves Deirdre’s two daughters and it’s nice for me to sit and chat with likeminded moms (and dads too sometimes!)

She’s in a phase of [...]

Making butter

Butter and buttermilk

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 [...]

Unveiling

I got another blog up and running. Don’t expect much, I threw it together during a couple of Fiona’s naps, migrated some posts from this blog over, and added some drafts and quick posts of our coop progress. It’s definitely a work in progress that likely won’t be finished until after our [...]

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 [...]

Change

I haven’t been writing much. Mostly, because I’m not really sure what to write. I started this blog to chronicle my journey as a parent and it evolved into trying to portray our unschooling and consensual lifestyle and how it looks and works for our family. Lately, Meredith has been going through a very [...]

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 [...]

“It is as true now as it was then that no matter what tests show, very little of what is taught in school is learned, very little of what is learned is remembered, and very little of what is remembered is used. The things we learn, remember, and use are the things we seek out or meet in the daily, serious, nonschool parts of our lives.”
~ John Holt

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