It has been a week with the kids at home and “unschooled” . We have actually been TRYING this week. Trying to keep them busy, trying to get their brains working and trying to manage our work/life/farm and family. Our […]
Sometime last year I sat with my eldest daughter, flipping through the available movies and clicked on the Hunger Games. I had read the books and seen the film already and knew that while there …
This is Skipper . . . Why does this matter? Skipper was my sons chicken. He picked her out of a bundle of hens we had gotten from a neighbourhood farm. He hasn't had much luck with …
Hubby and I aren't date night folks, we frequently forget our anniversary and are pretty minimal on gift giving in general, but we still find ways to sneak in the romance and appreciation of each …
It has been a fast week, a very fast week. And time is ticking. On tuesday I am off to San Francisco with 3 fabulous ladies, and then onwards to San Jose for Blogher 14. But …
We are starting to get into the "every day is a saturday" feel around here now that summer has arrived. On one hand this means sleeping in, and lazy days, and with that "boredom", too …
When we moved into the new house we had talked about getting exchange students again. And this weekend we welcome two Japanese Exchange students into our crazy world. They were with us for 4 …
After being raised in various quiet and sluggish suburbs, when I moved to the city after getting married I embraced the concrete jungle hard. I loved Vancouver with that deep abiding love reserved for teen …
We are conscious people. Not uber, living off the grid and hunting our own meat kind of conscious, but . . . urban conscious? Of course, not urban. Anymore at least. When we made the move here, …
While I know that a big chunk of Canada is still sitting under snow, over here on the wet west coast we are in full spring time bloom. With the rhododendrons and daffodils, comes our first …
As I continue to explore the concept of "raising interesting kids", I started to wonder, what is "IT" that makes a person interesting in the first place? People we classify as interesting tend to have a …
We all meet and interact with people every day. Some are better than others, many are complete bores and every now and then you come across someone really interesting. I sat down to lunch with my …
