Parenting consciously is just plain hard work! The journey is as much about the children as the parent. I have grown and learned so much about myself as I have ventured down this path of gentle parenting. But as difficult as it is to look at the ways I could be more gentle with my […]
We are blessed to live in Canada, with four seasons. The season of autumn signals the beginning of turning inward. A time for dreaming and planning while cozy indoors for the winter months. But it doesn’t seem so enticing as the days are growing shorter and we are losing the time in daylight to wrap […]
Harvest season has been a long haul this year. I have had a hard time keeping up with everything, from the influx of fresh food, to the realizations that we need to move on to bigger and better things. The crux of our business is from the two greenhouses Rob and a friend took on […]
What a year this has been! I cannot believe that I have been blogging for a year! On the other hand, I can’t believe that writing has only been part of my landscape for the past year. Like watching my babies grow, parts of the journey seem like just yesterday, while other parts seem distant […]
This summer has been a busy one around here. We’ve been racing from one event to the next, taking weekend trips and day trips – packing as much into our days without coats as possible. We are tired. We are all tired. What seemed like a good idea at the beginning of the summer, to […]
The truth about vacations with children is that they are hard work. We just returned from a trip to the city with our three children, aged 5, 3, and 1. We had an amazing time. We visited family, an aquarium, a train museum, took a ride on transit, and visited a science centre. All together […]
We lost a great deal of our orchard blossoms early in the season during a frost. It was a disappointing day. We tried hard to save them, throwing a sheet over each tree, which knocked off some of the blooms in the wind before we decided to remove them. After the frost hit, Rob got […]
I often have great ideas for what I’m going to accomplish in a day. The day starts off with a bang, getting the children through their morning routines and into a rhythm. My morning energy leads to noticing all the things I could do. As we enjoy our day together, meandering through what calls to […]
I have written before about how my family values extreme empathy. We try to meet each other first by empathizing, whether it’s adults or children. We try to validate feelings and then work to find solutions. What is becoming clear to me is that even though we have this goal, it isn’t always achieved. There […]
How is it possible that we have people so impoverished that they have to eat dirt cookies in order to trick their stomachs into thinking they’re full? They have no food. My husband brought up that he had seen this video last week as we sat around the dinner table. The children were curious, asking […]
