My fitness goals for this week were: Be more systematic about exercise. Oops! I was totally random about it instead. Find a physiotherapist. I think I’ve located one close by. I hope she will understand muscles that can give up for a day or more if they’re worked at all. “Post-exertion malaise” some call it. […]
Kitchen
Review: Real Food on a Real Budget
Feeding our families costs money—lots of it—no matter what we eat. Serving only excellent, nutritious, quality food can cost even more, but it needn’t. Stephanie Langford has written an inspiring and practical guide, Real Food On a Real Budget: How to Eat Healthy for Less, that contains over 200 pages of organized, encouraging, balanced […]
Holiday Highlights, Week 1
School: This week we started to document what we did in the past school year. Although this is not required in our province, it’s nice to do anyhow. We have the rough daily and weekly records, but having everything listed neatly in just a few pages per child makes for a wonderful set of memories. […]
Our Garden
Wednesday we finished planting our garden! Yes, I know this seems late. In fact, I’ve seen lovely pictures of almost-ready-to-eat vegetables at In His Hands. Our little microclimate is a fair bit colder than the rest of the world, however. If we try to start our peppers, melons, pumpkins, and squashes too early, they […]