Clik here to view.
Transitions and gymnastics.
Well, it’s that time again: the end of term is in two weeks, and we need to decide now if Snort will continue with football. For a long time it has been apparent that he goes for his friends, not the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The who-gets-your-kid convo that some people have at Thanksgiving.
I was sucked in to a particularly ….oh, I can’t think of the right adjective. That one word that will hang, shining and bright, symbolic of the emotions I want to portray. So let’s keep it simple....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Power dynamics and butt medicine.
You know what you don’t anticipate when you become a parent? Having to hold the tip of your pinky finger in your child’s anus to hold a suppository in. All the while wondering if you are causing them...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Today. Our reality.
Some people are making perfect crafts out of all organic materials. We are pretending to be zombies as I lead my zombie babies in exercises – reaching for brains, arms falling off, facial grimacing....
View ArticleClik here to view.
I need to remember how much I appreciate these 2.5 hours.
I dreaded it, this day called today. Coats and sweaters and shoes and hats and backpacks and a walk through the cold to the doctor. Loading kids in and out of cars as we shopped for compost and short...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ode to Plants vs Zombies
People say, what does home education look like? What do you do? For us, we are child led. Of course the kids are only 3.5, but we have no plans to try to recreate school at home as they get older. What...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dancing can be awesome as dancing alone. It doesn’t need to teach us to read...
I’m hiding in the bathroom for a possible two minutes of peace before we leave for ‘dance class.’ I think it’s a fairly relaxed group that focuses on creativity, not learning steps, which is great....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Figuring out what authentic means. Motherhood and me-ness. Just being.
I read a status update on Facebook by an unschooling page I follow. It was essentially all about how difficult it can be to support others, to inspire them, and always have to push your own dreams...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Where I come from.
My heritage is in listening to medical stories over dinner. This heart attack, that injury. Words spinning and dancing in the air, describing microwaving blankets to heat the up for boring night...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Home education ‘school trips’
We are lucky to live in one of the best places in the country to home educate – there is a huge and varied population of home educators, including more than a handful of mamas from Country A. We have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Chicken pox is my beer.
Yes, you read that right. Chicken pox is my beer. It makes me lose my inhibitions and live an awesome life. We are naked in the front garden, running around in wild circles, waving at neighbours,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What I just posted on Facebook. (30/365 ONE)
I remember how I felt that evening two years ago when I walked fifteen minutes without any assistance. I dubbed it ‘the summer I would learn to walk again,’ and after two years full time in a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The prodigal daughter.
I haven’t disappeared. Rather, things are changing. I don’t know how to explain it, because on the surface nothing has. Except, I suppose, the kids are now officially home educated, which is quite a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Today. Our reality.
Some people are making perfect crafts out of all organic materials. We are pretending to be zombies as I lead my zombie babies in exercises – reaching for brains, arms falling off, facial grimacing....
View ArticleClik here to view.
I need to remember how much I appreciate these 2.5 hours.
I dreaded it, this day called today. Coats and sweaters and shoes and hats and backpacks and a walk through the cold to the doctor. Loading kids in and out of cars as we shopped for compost and short...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ode to Plants vs Zombies
People say, what does home education look like? What do you do? For us, we are child led. Of course the kids are only 3.5, but we have no plans to try to recreate school at home as they get older. What...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dancing can be awesome as dancing alone. It doesn’t need to teach us to read...
I’m hiding in the bathroom for a possible two minutes of peace before we leave for ‘dance class.’ I think it’s a fairly relaxed group that focuses on creativity, not learning steps, which is great....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Figuring out what authentic means. Motherhood and me-ness. Just being.
I read a status update on Facebook by an unschooling page I follow. It was essentially all about how difficult it can be to support others, to inspire them, and always have to push your own dreams...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Where I come from.
My heritage is in listening to medical stories over dinner. This heart attack, that injury. Words spinning and dancing in the air, describing microwaving blankets to heat the up for boring night...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Home education ‘school trips’
We are lucky to live in one of the best places in the country to home educate – there is a huge and varied population of home educators, including more than a handful of mamas from Country A. We have...
View Article
