Exploring Life In The Grit Of The Earth
Posted in Mothering on Apr 22nd, 2010
You HAVE to check this out! It looks like so much fun! Kaia is always talking about how she wants to get more mail and I tell her she has to send some to get some back. Well, now’s her chance! I use to have lots of pen pals when I was a kid. Then [...]
Posted in Chickens/Ducks, Home Schooling on Apr 18th, 2010
One thing I really like about homeschooling is going on field trips! (OK, I know that I could go on field trips even if Kaia was in public school, but it just seems like more fun when we get to design and plan them ourselves!) She just finished up her solar system and prehistory studies. [...]
Posted in Do It Yourself, Mothering, Sewing on Apr 13th, 2010
I’ve been wanting to make Leif this doll for a while now. He’s so into taking things apart, pushing buttons, pulling levers…. I thought he’d enjoy it. It was a lot of fun to make! If you want to make one for your favorite little explorer you’ll need: fabric for the body (I used an [...]
Posted in Home Schooling, Mothering on Apr 11th, 2010
We are wrapping up Kaia’s Prehistory studies this next week and she has been begging to do a dinosaur dig. I got this kit because it looked like it was pretty good quality and the tools (which are metal) could be used again. The kit says it can be ‘hours of fun’, especially if you [...]
Last week, my father-in-law passed on boxes of sewing goodies from his mother’s stash (so, that would be Kaia and Leif’s great-grandmother)! She was an avid seamstress and had some fabulous stuff! Look at this: There were 4 boxes of lace like this! This is just begging to be the hem of a frilly dress [...]
Posted in Chickens/Ducks, Sustainable Living on Apr 4th, 2010
Our ladies have had a great egg laying month!! Last month we averaged about a dozen a day (from 22 chickens), and the numbers just keep increasing. I’ve put a fence around the garden so that I can let the chickens out of their gated area to free range in the afternoons without them getting [...]
Posted in Mothering on Apr 4th, 2010
Don’t worry! This sand is new and contains no coprolites!