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Tourists!
We decided to participate in the Be A Tourist in Your Own Hometown event this year. A great friend had some extra tickets and there were several places that we thought would be a lot of fun, so we took...
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Busy bees
We’ve been doing a lot of gardening lately. I posted about it on my homestead blog. 5 yards of dirt ready to be moved! Related posts: Unveiling My Garden Snapshot Sunday Related posts: Unveiling My...
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Life right now
For anyone interested, we are currently super busy with ducklings and chicks and gardening, and I’m blogging about it over on my other blog. I’ve been finding some time to actually sit down and blog...
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Our giant sandbox
We built a giant sandbox today for the girls. More pictures and details are here. I’ve started watching a friend’s son two days a week and the situation is pretty ideal. They live close, her schedule...
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Play area update
This is cross-posted from my other blog again, but is relevant here too. Some friends came over today and we were able to get our sand box filled with sand as well as put up our swing set. The kids...
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Kindergarten
Well, this week would have been Meredith’s first week of kindergarten. (Or would it have started last week? I don’t actually know.) So what have we done lately to kick off this important milestone? We...
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Baby chicks!
Here are some pictures of the new baby chicks. I’m hoping for more hens, since we ended up with mostly roosters last time. There are six in total this time. This little guy is about half the size of...
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First term
The first “term” of Meredith’s first official year of home schooling is coming to an end. I use the word “term” loosely. I had to fill out something for the school we’re enrolled with, that took about...
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Some craftiness
Things have been busy around here, as usual. With a baby due in just over three months(ish) and lots of gardening and other things happening to prepare for spring, it seems like we are always doing...
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Three years old
My sweet Fiona turned three this week. Kris always takes their birthday off and for Meredith we have done things like gone to Saltspring Island, but the weather isn’t nearly as predictable in March....
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Mei tai for an older sibling
Meredith had asked several times for her own mei tai to carry the new baby around in. I put her off at first, thinking it might be just a passing request, but it was definitely something she was...
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Life, lately
Life is moving along right now. It’s busy as we prepare not only for a new baby, but for a new gardening season. Also, it seems that the local home learner’s group is much slower in the winter, and...
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Mud volcano
Meredith loves doing science experiments. She has really wanted to do a particular one that involves building a volcano out of clay and then using baking soda and vinegar for the lava. We don’t have...
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New things to try
So far our home learning journey has been almost completely unstructured and involves mostly lots of free play, snuggling and reading together, lots of outdoor time, science experiments, cooking and...
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Treasure map
Meredith is quite interested in maps and mapping. When we went on the totem walk a few weeks ago with the local co-operative home learning school, the teacher commented several times that she seems to...
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30×30 Nature Challenge
I’ve mentioned that I signed us up for the 30×30 Nature Challenge. It honestly didn’t change much. I don’t know if I did it wrong or what, but I never got any challenges via email so we just did our...
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BFSU A/B 1
I have been reading Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding myself, but not so sure how or even whether to incorporate it into our day-to-day living. I am excited about it as I love science...
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BFSU A2 & A3: Solids, liquids, & gases and Air is a Substance
These two pretty much happened concurrently and again, almost completely naturally. In fact, it had actually come up shortly before I even found BFSU. Meredith had noticed we don’t fill the tub all the...
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And baby makes 5
Already our third little girl is showing us once again that every child is different. I wasn’t sure what to expect as far as labour and birth went, but figured it would be like one of the previous...
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Sister wearing
The mei tai we made for Meredith seems to work perfectly. It fits Meredith well, and is a good size for Guinevere too. Meredith tried it out shortly after Guinevere was born, but Guinevere was fussy...
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