In late September:
Mama, who are those socks for?
Papa.
Again?
Do you want a pair?
Yes!
Archive for the ‘parenting’ Category
Leap
Posted in handmade, knitting, parenting on November 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Earlier this week…
Posted in adventure, home, parenting on October 16, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Grrrr Arrrg!
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That boy. He’s my Taoist master. Since the moment of his arrival, he’s taught me so much about being in the moment. At first it was to keep up with his body as he nursed, crawled, and leaped. Then it was because that was where his mind lived. In. [...]
Little :: Lot
Posted in adventure, handmade, parenting on September 12, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Doing a little that means a lot: it’s a big part of our parenting. We believe that change is within our reach. Not just collectively as a society, as in Our reach, but also our reach, our little foursome of humans.
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We bake cookies each Christmas and sell them to Rainer’s co-workers. Tiny, tangible actions we [...]
A Quote and a Question
Posted in A Quote and a Question, adventure, homeschooling, parenting, quotes on September 8, 2009 | 12 Comments »
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“We live in a culture which does not place great value on parenting as valued and honoured work. It is considered perfectly acceptable for people to give one hundred percent to their careers, or to ‘their relationships’, or to ‘finding themselves’, but not to their children.
Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Have you taken the time to [...]
They’re not moving!
Posted in adventure, parenting on August 19, 2009 | 7 Comments »
A Quote and a Question
Posted in A Quote and a Question, Project Spectrum, adventure, homeschooling, parenting on August 18, 2009 | 14 Comments »
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“Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.” C. Mason
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Where are you going today?
One of the Me-s I used to Be
Posted in adventure, homeschooling, parenting on August 14, 2009 | 57 Comments »
I’ve been many versions of myself. There was the shy, sweet Mennonite child who was shredded by the kids and the public school in a prairie town. There was the pre-teen who contemplated suicide and struggled with depression. There was the teenager who was desperate for responsibility and control who reached out and [...]
One Word
Posted in adventure, handmade, home, homeschooling, parenting on August 10, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Last year, my Word of the Year was adventure and it was a powerful impetus in my days. It stirred me up, moved me forward, gave me a mental hook upon which to hang our lives. Home, this year’s word, just isn’t echoing the same way. Yes, we’ve done far more for [...]
Thoughts on a day
Posted in books, home, homeschooling, parenting on August 7, 2009 | 23 Comments »
It’s interesting that emails and comments about my day in the life post have taken certain avenues. I’m surprised at the feedback which has been so happy to see a ‘real day’ and surprised by the sense that I’d had a bad day.
From my perspective, it wasn’t a bad day or even a hard day. [...]
A day
Posted in Project Spectrum, handmade, home, homeschooling, parenting on August 6, 2009 | 17 Comments »
A day in our life. Not so much a normal day as a typical day. It’s summer, we’re homeschoolers, there are 4 of us – how can there possibly be a normal day?
5:20 Woke and realized I felt like someone was mashing around in my skull. I thought about getting up since I usually feel [...]
