Family News
New arrival
Well, the kittens came and are already opening their eyes! The chicks hatched on schedule and provide much entertainment! Ivy has her two favorites – Tiny Tim and Jezebel. The others have been named Arrow-dart, Snow White, Stormy, Coco, Snacks and Egg Yolk. Brian and I have declined the kids’ help in naming […]
How to get something done
Many of you have probably seen this film short done by a fellow mom and her 20 month old baby. Please, take a minute and enjoy some of the humor of parenting. I saw it, enjoyed it, watched again with the kids and all had a good laugh. I scrolled through some of the comments […]
Expecting
The new life of Spring is coming a bit late around our place this year but it’s about to hit in full force! The cat is miserably fat and spends much of her time laying around. We have eggs in the incubator which should hatch in about 5 days! The goat is heavy with […]
How does your garden grow?
With lots of hard work – that’s how! Here is our garden as of yesterday. Each crop has a special memory tied to it: I planted potatoes with the kids as a norther blew in, me digging a trench while two kids dropped in seed potatoes at a spacing measured by a stick and two […]
Archiving ideas
We’ve had several co-op days where I recreated and expanded on some unit studies I did back when Lance and Ivy were little. To save the work of researching several years from now when I need to do it again, I thought I’d post what we did: Three little pigs This was a new unit […]