Exploring Life In The Grit Of The Earth
Posted in Holistic Medicine, Mothering on Jan 29th, 2010
I finally did it! I’m taking sewing lessons! I’ve been wanting to learn how to sew for a long time now. I can do a little on the sewing machine, but I’ve wanted to learn from a professional. Well, as luck would have it, I won a raffle for 7 sewing lessons from a professional [...]
Posted in Home Schooling on Jan 23rd, 2010
You can’t study pre-history without making trilobite cookies!! This was Kaia’s first time using the cookie press and she LOVED it! I had to make her a deal though… we make one full sheet of trilobite shaped cookies and she could use the rest of the dough to try out all the other cookie press [...]
Posted in Mothering on Jan 20th, 2010
Leif loves puzzles! I’m not sure why, since he’s not old enough to really put them together. But there is something about them that attracts him and if you want to give him something to do, just put a puzzle in front of him. He’ll take all the pieces and throw them all around the [...]
Posted in Home Schooling on Jan 16th, 2010
For a family that lives on 25 acres, we seem to spend most of our time indoors, especially in the winter. Now that Kaia is at home most days, I thought it increasingly more important to make getting outside a priority! So, we’ve added a weekly Outdoor Hour Challenge to our studies. This week, we [...]
Posted in Chickens/Ducks, Home Schooling, Mothering, Organic Gardening on Jan 16th, 2010
Finally, it’s gotten above 35 degrees!! The snow has been on the ground for a month and it seems like every morning I’ll wake up to a little more! The past few days it’s gotten up into the 50′s and it’s been wonderful! The chickens are having a field day taking dirt baths and stretching [...]
Well, my intention was to knit myself a new hat… one that completely covers my ears, because I can’t seem to get one that keeps my head and ears nice and warm. I found a great pattern and saw the finished hat in my local yarn store. But the pattern didn’t have a gauge (how [...]
Posted in Home Schooling, Mothering on Jan 9th, 2010
This week was the first official full week of Kaia and I homeschooling and we had a great time. Along with the standard weekly math, spelling/language, and stuff, we’ve begun studying prehistoric times (Thanks to Sarah for the curriculum!). We started by doing our own little recreation of the Big Bang. Kaia stuffed a balloon [...]