Spread some love this week (or anytime!) – find these printable valentines in the shop. Print in black and white and add your personal touch with watercolours, pencil crayon or whatever medium you prefer. If you use these, we’d love to see what you create – leave a comment below with a link or email us… Continue reading Farm Fresh Valentines
Bird Love Links
A collection of links for more bird learning… Okay, so almost all these sites are developed by one or more of these organizations – and they are all really helpful. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Bird Studies Canada, and the National Audubon Society. These seem like the most visited and well-presented bird studies sites I have… Continue reading Bird Love Links
Coconut Oil Bird Feeders
We’re crafting some bird-watching goodness over here, in preparation for The Great Backyard Bird Count, starting on February 14th. The kids have been working hard on Woodworking Wednesdays with their dad to design and make some wooden bird feeders for our yard. Plans to come. Sign up for our newsletter (top of this page)… Continue reading Coconut Oil Bird Feeders
The Week in Photos
Having a rhythm to carry our weeks is the glue that keeps us together. We’re not strict about it, though we do try to follow along with it as much as possible. If it’s baking day and I find the kids completely engaged in playing house, I leave them to it. Play is… Continue reading The Week in Photos
Maple Butter Calendula Popcorn
Well, we did intend to bake some sort of calendula muffin – different from last week’s – but the day sort of got away on us. It felt more like a lazy kind of day, anyway, and so a big bowl of popcorn suited us just fine. It had been a while since we’d had popcorn,… Continue reading Maple Butter Calendula Popcorn
The Week in Photos
Lots of home photos as usual, as I rarely want to bring the big camera out in 40 below (or, any below really), and the iPhone battery goes oh so quickly in this weather… The kids are still enjoying daily excursions out to the backyard fort, or the neighbourhood park and playground where there is… Continue reading The Week in Photos
This Moment
“A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.” {joining Soule Mama today} If you’re inspired to follow along, please leave a link to your moment in the comments!
rhythm + rice
Folks, this is such a simple post! These two little things, though, have really made a lot of difference in our meal planning and weekly meal rhythm that I wanted to share them with you. For many years, we’ve been planning our meals with a framework of each day being earmarked for a certain main… Continue reading rhythm + rice
Calendula Banana Muffins
Our go-to muffin recipe, Choco-Banano Muffins are always a hit. It’s a recipe that has been shared among friends time and time again and is based on a banana muffin recipe from The 250 Best Mufffin Recipes by Esther Brody. This past week, since we were learning about Calendula, we adapted the recipe to be… Continue reading Calendula Banana Muffins
The Week in Photos
Another week of our living and learning journey. I often hear that this time of year can be the worst for wanting to quit. I’m thankful that we are all still firmly IN this journey, and though there are daily hiccups, we are happy with and thankful for our chosen path. A few things we… Continue reading The Week in Photos