It was day two of returning to schoolwork. I feel embarrassed talking about "returning to schoolwork" because I really wish that schoolwork wasn't something we did. I wish it was just a part of life, and not something we would take a break from or anything. Yet, in many ways, we needed this break, and in another way, we need to return to it. What ( Read more... )

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/photos/?c=y&articleID=119483704&page=1
This is a short slideshow of pictures. I like the first one best.

All my computer time this week has been sucked up reading election news. I'll resist posting a bunch of stuff here, just a link to http://compellingcomics.justsomeguy.com/CanadaVotes2011/Canada.html. If anyone on my list is debating voting Conservative, I'd love to know why. (I can understand liking some of his policies, though I personally don't ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had a "like mother like son" moment at the library. We were there for a story-time with the homeschool group and at some point the story-teller brought out some hearts made of construction paper. Each heart had two colors, a big heart and then a little heart glued to the middle. She was using them to illustrate a song she was going to ( Read more... )

I didn't think I had much planning to do about the garden, but I'm finding myself thinking of things anyway. I want to move some of my perennials around, so the decorative ones can be outside the food garden (read: in the polluted soil). I also wonder about the mint. Somewhere I heard that peppermint needs new soil every few years because of how ( Read more... )

This morning has been a wonderful morning ( Read more... )

24 more days.

One of the things I don't like about having a c-section is the idea of how much garbage and waste will be created. I dislike all the junk from hospitals. I've started taking my own little jar with me to my doctor's office because otherwise they get me to pee in a new plastic cup each time and throw it out. My doctor in Montreal didn't ( Read more... )

So I posted a few weeks ago about what my family eats in a week. Then today I was looking at http://dothemathchallenge.blogspot.com/ which is a blog for people who are challenging themselves to live for a week on basically what is available from a food bank or from social services. I look at this, and think... wow... there's no way my family could ( Read more... )

Sunday nights I am more prayerful than any other night of the week, and always my prayer is the same. Please, let me be a good mother to my children this next week. Let me be patient and loving. Let me help to keep them active and let me not go insane.

I write out my to-do list for the week. I plan some school work as well as possible other ( Read more... )