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diy citronella candle
We’re getting ready for our first camping trip of the summer, and one of my biggest jobs is keeping the bugs (mosquitos and ticks especially!) at bay. I mixed up a batch of deet free bug spray earlier...
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unplugged
We’re not typically a media-heavy family. Sure, the boys love watching Wild Kratts on PBS, but otherwise the tv is only on when I am compulsively checking the weather for frost. We do enjoy movies...
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dusting off
Hello there. It’s been a long time since I’ve shared anything here. It wasn’t necessarily my intention, but the pace of the summer really kept me quite busy outside. Being the first summer in our new...
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local food love
Someday, I hope to be almost completely self-sufficient on our little homestead, but being still in our first year here we are not even close. Throughout the summer, a large amount of our food came...
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love.
You’ll have to forgive the mush today… I had a post all ready to go about unschooling and math, and if you’d rather read that be sure to check back tomorrow. For today, I’m going to tell a story....
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strewing math
Before we dive into this, let me take a moment to explain what exactly “strewing” is to any readers who may not be familiar with the idea. It’s a term originally used by Sandra Dodd, and you can find...
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helping out
In our small town, I have been lucky to meet an awesome fellow blogger with an amazing family. They moved up here to farm and do great things, and have hit some struggles along the way. Lisa has...
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slow and easy
I’ve always made a conscious effort to make the holidays a simple time. Still, there’s usually a lot of cooking, baking, sewing, knitting… and a bit of shopping and list making. Ah but this year there...
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what i hope they remember
I often think about what I hope my children will remember about these days when they are grown. Sometimes it’s a fun thought about their unconventional childhood, and other times it’s a deeper...
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unschooling in a highly regulated state
Unschooling or life learning can be challenging in a state with very strict laws regarding home education, but it certainly isn’t impossible. In life learning we have no curriculum; no one sits down...
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