In honor of February, and Valentine’s Day, and Cabin Fever, and the Olympics, and the sun is shining and the sky is blue, and despite the snow being so deep that I cannot walk beyond the goat shed without snow shoes, I’m having a shop sale! Okay, so I don’t have one reason, but does one ever need a reason… Read More »Shop Sale
Is it just me, or is everyone else rather glad to say farewell to January? It was an interesting month and I usually enjoy the month after the holidays as a time to sink in, stay home, and enjoy the quiet of deep winter. But this year was definitely not the quiet I had hoped for. Much of it was… Read More »Hello February!
Emma seems to have had a growth spurt and many of her dresses are just too short. Since she has been very much enchanted with all things old fashioned lately, I thought this drees would be just right for her. Since green is her favorite color these days (and has been for a while now), The dress, of course, had… Read More »A Green Dress for Emma
As a homeschooling mom, I’m often on the lookout for great resources for our children to learn, preferably low or no cost, preferably easily accessible. One of those resources we use a lot is Art for Kids Hub, a channel on YouTube. I don’t remember when we started using them, but they’re a great resource. They give the kids drawing… Read More »Homeschooling Resources – Art
Since before the holidays, it seems that at least one person in our family has been fighting a cold. It’s an unusual one too. You feel like you’re getting better and then hours later you’re back to feeling awful. And sometimes you wake up feeling badly but then by afternoon you think it’s gone, only to start over again the… Read More »Lemon Ginger Tea Recipe for Colds
(This picture has nothing at all to do with my post, but I needed a picture and thought the cats were very funny watching the snow. Sorry for the overexposure. I’m still working on my camera skills and they wouldn’t re-pose once I figured out my settings.) As you may have noticed if you’ve been reading here for a while,… Read More »Writing
We’ve been in quite a cold snap since Christmas. The days when our thermometer hits 0 are “warm”. Because the wind chills are so low, the children have been in much more than out. It has been helpful for getting schoolwork done though, since the lure of outside play isn’t a distraction. The cats are staying in, too. Sometimes the… Read More »Keeping Warm
If it’s cold outside and you live in Maine You might want to make a hat. You need wool, a pattern, needles to knit, A marker or two, and a cat. The pattern is easy to find online, The wool is a hank I bought. But the needles must be the right size, you know, And for them I have… Read More »If You Want to Make a Hat – A Silly Poem
We had a beautiful, quiet and snowy Christmas day. We missed being with some of our family – some due to distance, some due to the foot or so of snow we got, but phone calls and face time and Skype came into service. The children were able to decipher all their clues to figure out the tags on the… Read More »On the Second Day of Christmas
What began as necessity has become tradition. With a house full of peekers and shakers and squeezers and sniffers and not a lot of room to hide things, I need to wrap presents early. But with a house full of peekers and shakers and squeezers and sniffers, even wrapped presents don’t always hide their contents well. So years ago I… Read More »The game is afoot!