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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up: Preparing for School

We gardened and swam, ate apples, visited a thrift shop, and simply enjoyed life…and then the girls decided they wanted to start school next Monday.  Really?  Suddenly there was a deadline and things got busy, fast. In our homeschool … So we are writing up weekly to do lists for term 1.  Miss 15 decided […]

Holiday Highlights

In my life these weeks… From watching a wild fawn nurse to being with family, from sewing a dress for Miss 10 to making applesauce, life has been full this past month.  We visited family and friends, we camped, we drove more than 6000 km (~2/3 of that in the rocky, forested Canadian Shield), and […]

Weekly Wrap Up: Healing, Gardening, and Happiness

In my life this week… First of all, Miss 10 is doing much better. Thank you for your prayers.  Her flashing dizzying headaches disappeared and only returned briefly after 15 wild minutes of unsupervised play.  The more ordinary regular headaches are also gone, but we’re still trying to keep her calm and quiet for a […]

Weekly Wrap Up: Overwhelmed

In my life this week… I feel overwhelmed. First Canada Day with cake and fireworks, then a concussion (Miss 10 bumped her head on the swing set), now a house full of girls, and through it all a garden that needs to be weeded, fruit that needs to be picked, and a house that needs […]

Weekly Wrap Up: Summer Holidays

In my life this week… This was the week of the thunderstorm!  Day after day after day.  So the river is deep, and we put on our life jackets and went floating down it several times.  Now the current is so fast that it is no longer a safe thing to do, especially for little […]