About a month ago my niece did a guest post on how she starts seedlings in her garden. Last week she sent me an update on how her seedlings are doing. The seedlings grew fine in their miniature containers. Here are some pictures from 2 weeks ago that we took as they were sprouting. I …
Today I have a guest writer - my 15-year-old niece. I know if Emilie and I were neighbours we'd get along fine. She loves animals and gardening. A while ago her family lived on some property where she was able to have ducks and geese. It was fun to see all the pictures. Now my …
This week started out a bit rough. Sunday night the baby had a fever that lingered into Monday. Then Monday afternoon I discovered three new teeth in his mouth - one of which was a molar. Poor thing. No wonder he had a fever. Then Tuesday morning I woke up with the worst headache I …
This week has gone by in a blur - a husband recovering from a minor back injury, sick children, sewing projects, etc. It has been hard for me to stay focused with so much sickness in the house so I'm glad I had sewing projects to keep me going. I promised my youngest daughter a …
This will be a little bit of a mishmash of "Fruitful Friday" and "Library Time". Yesterday I was tired and just basically spent the day hanging out with my children watching movie and eating ice cream cones which could explain the higher numbers on the scales this morning. Anyway, we had fun and every once …
This has been an incredibly hot week. Thankfully it rained tonight and things have started to cool down. The noise and busyness of having the children inside all week was starting to get to me this morning. I was so thankful that I had a phonics lesson with my five-year-old son to work on. After …
This has been our first week of summer break! Yeah! That has meant more sewing for me. We have also had some warmer and drier weather so the children have been enjoying playing outside. It has also been the week that I have finally lost more than half of what I’m hoping to lose – …
Yesterday I was all set to do a a post only I couldn’t get into my account. I was upset and tried everything I could think of. I went to bed with the post unwritten and the problem unsolved. A couple of hours after I got up this morning I was mentally giving myself a …
So we’re pretty much finished all of our school work for the year. Just a few more assignments and we’re done. The downside is that I am already hearing rumors of boredom. Why is it that they work so hard all year to get done and then complain three days into their vacation that there …
Today I needed to go to a couple of stores and the library, and I had to do it by myself! {gasp} No help from another adult or an older child with the toddler and baby! So, my husband dug our tandem stroller out of the back of the garage and off we went. Absolutely …
Intentional Simplicity 