March 12th, 2011
 I’d read about seed balls a few times and thought it might be an interesting project to try, but hadn’t got around to it. Basically, seed balls are a mixture of clay, compost, and seeds formed into a ball. The clay protects the seed from birds and insects, the compost gives it something to [...]
February 9th, 2011

Puppet shows in our homemade puppet theatre
Organizing my spices using dollar store jars and a dry erase marker
Piano playing
Sleeping
Swinging in her Ikea swing
Trying chocolate beet cake. She [...]
February 2nd, 2011

Meredith has been enjoying painting and other arts and crafts a lot lately. But she seems to especially like painting right now. We got some primary-coloured tempura paints free from a local homeschooler. I add the colours in the sections of an egg carton, and as she paints she [...]
January 18th, 2011
 I keep mentioning this project we did. It was so successful I really want to actually write about. This kept her attention the entire time and she did most of it completely on her own. Meredith had told me she wanted to watch Three Little Pigs. I originally thought of making her a felt [...]
January 17th, 2011
 I wrote my post on TV watching late at night when I should have been sleeping. It’s late again and I should probably be in bed again, but I had a small tangent I wanted to make.
In that post, I stated that Kris and I are both the type of people that [...]
January 16th, 2011
 Meredith has been watching a lot of TV lately. I’m not someone who sees no value in TV and believes it should be banned from the house altogether, but I also don’t think it can replace physical play, outdoor exploration, and spending time with family. We don’t have cable, but we recently signed up [...]
January 11th, 2011
Welcome to the January Carnival of Natural Parenting: Learning from children
This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month our participants have shared the many lessons their children have taught them. Please [...]
January 2nd, 2011
 “Look Mama, I spelled Mimi!”
I don’t make a point of correcting her, but she then asked me to spell Mimi, so I wrote it too. She examined mine carefully, and then wrote it again herself:
The two first arcs are the M.
Then she drew a banana:
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December 15th, 2010
 Fiona took her first step the other day, on her nine-month birthday! I tried to get a picture of her standing/stepping, but she just wanted to crawl back to me and see the camera so you’ll have to use your imagination. I’ll have to take a video with the iPhone at some point, since [...]
December 14th, 2010
 We had a farewell play date with some of the other moms and kids in the co-op this morning, where we made snow globes with the kids. I didn’t think to bring my camera with me there unfortunately, but we decided to make snow globes. This was definitely more of a mom’s craft than [...]
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