Living in Harmony

This is inspired by this post, but I don’t like the term “bucket list” for something like this. I have taken a lot of the ideas from there that I think the girls might like, and added some of my own as well. Often I think of things I want to do [...]

The mei tai we made for Meredith seems to work perfectly. It fits Meredith well, and is a good size for Guinevere too. Meredith tried it out shortly after Guinevere was born, but Guinevere was fussy and also couldn’t hold herself upright very well, so it was fairly short lived.

Meredith had asked several times for her own mei tai to carry the new baby around in. I put her off at first, thinking it might be just a passing request, but it was definitely something she was serious about as it kept coming up. She wanted it to be pink, and when I [...]

Here are some pictures of the new baby chicks. I’m hoping for more hens, since we ended up with mostly roosters last time.

There are six in total this time.

This little guy is about half the size of the rest and has fuzzy feet, so I [...]

We decided to participate in the Be A Tourist in Your Own Hometown event this year. A great friend had some extra tickets and there were several places that we thought would be a lot of fun, so we took the opportunity.

We went to Butchart Gardens first, which to be [...]

Drowning doesn’t look like drowning

If you ever take your children near water and haven’t seen this article, please click over and read it. I’ve seen it posted and reposted many places now, but it’s one of those articles I don’t think can be reposted too many times. It has a lot [...]

We have been busy, busy, busy! Over the weekend we had some really good friends come out and help us get our chicken coop started. In one day they got from this:

to this:

It was really cool to watch the progress. I can’t wait until it’s done and we can stick [...]