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 [...]

Do you know what drowning looks like?

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 [...]

Children and Apple Pie Festival

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Friday I heard about a Children and Apple Pie Festival that takes place right in our little village, put on by a local independent school, Evergreen, as a fundraiser. It sounded like fun, so we decided to go check it out on Saturday. I’m glad we did. It was actually a great [...]

More unschooly learning

Doing what she does best: Play!

The other night we were sitting eating dinner, and Meredith pointed out that Kris’ taco looked like a triangle. We agreed it did and didn’t really think much of it, until she held up three fingers and said “That’s because it has three sides and three corners.” Such a seemingly small, obvious fact, but [...]

Pad Thai

This is a recipe my friend Debbie shared with me, and it is so delicious. We have had it numerous times since she shared it, so I thought I would post it here so it will be easier to find (rather than searching through the depths of my Facebook messages). 2 [...]

My Country Lyrics

One of the first things I often do when I find a new song I really like is go find the lyrics. But I searched for the lyrics for the song I posted yesterday and didn’t have any luck, so I wrote them down myself and thought I’d share them here too. I don’t [...]

My Country

Annie shared this over on her blog recently. I found the video very touching and poignant. Though the video is about oil and a very specific part of Canada, a lot of what she says applies to other areas of our country as well. My dad once flew over Vancouver Island [...]

Teenagers…

Meredith, Fiona, and I went to another LLL meeting this morning. The meetings are held in a building on a school ground. Afterwards, Meredith wanted to play at the playground so we stopped to play for a bit. While we were playing, two older girls showed up. Considering it was an elementary school, they [...]

Angel

I thought these pictures were sweet. We were at a meeting for parents who practice EC hosted monthly by Deirdre at Continuum Family. Meredith loves Deirdre’s two daughters and it’s nice for me to sit and chat with likeminded moms (and dads too sometimes!)

She’s in a phase of [...]

Making butter

Butter and buttermilk

A friend gets raw milk from a local farm, and they have lots of extra this time of year, so we took a bottle to try out. Though I am confident Kris and Meredith at least, and Fiona likely, are allergic to the store-bought, processed milk, I do wonder if raw milk would be [...]

“You cannot teach a person anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”
~ Galileo

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