Bring on the Fall

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We have been outside a lot this month! It was been really nice. The weather has mostly been great up until this past week. I will never get around to blogging about each time, but here are some of the things we have been up to. While we would love for the beautiful weather [...]

A summer’s day

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It rained for a few days last week and I was feeling a little down. I don’t mind the rain, and in fact prefer cooler weather over sweltering hot. But I do feel like we didn’t get much of a summer this year. Guinevere was born just as summer started, and because of mild [...]

Today we…

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We had a busy day today. I got woken up by a strange sound. It took me a few minutes before I realized  it was a rooster crowing! I’m not sure which one it was, but one of the roosters has finally found his voice. I joked with Kris that the hens were behind [...]

Spring days

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Just a little taste of what we’ve been doing lately. Click any picture to see it bigger.

Painting, yes her hands really are moving that fast. Somewhere under all that paint there is a piece of paper too.

Lots of outdoor play [...]

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 [...]

Happy Birthday Fiona!

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Yesterday we celebrated Fiona’s birthday. I can’t believe my tiny little baby is already a year old. Time sure flies now that I’m a mom. Wasn’t this just yesterday?

We had a good day. We had considered going out and doing something, like we did for Meredith’s first, but the weather [...]

Lately

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 [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Best Friends

With two days to go until possession, I can’t help but wonder how these two are going to take moving so far apart.

We hope to still see them often, but it will be so different. We’ll lose the spontaneity and almost every day contact we have now.

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Wordless Wednesday: Snow!

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We didn’t really get snow last year, so she was thrilled to see it and wanted to go out in the backyard. I was surprised how long she was happy out there, considering that we don’t have a lot of snow gear for her. (It just doesn’t snow enough!) That will [...]

Today we…

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This post is inspired by Sarah. I love to read her “today we” posts, and can imagine what fun they will be for her to look back on in the future. I think the simple, day-to-day things are most likely to be forgotten but they are what make up the majority of [...]

“Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.”
~ John Holt

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