Recent Posts Tagged With 'evelyn'

• Good Morning Sunshine

  Posted on Monday September 28th, 2009 at 10:29 in grace, working from home, unschooling, madelyn, evelyn, kids are fun, mom-sanity, wherever we're living

  am not a “morning person.” I wake up confused, my eyes are blurry, my voice is gritty and my body moves slowly. I tumble into the kitchen, straight for the coffee pot and stare at it cross-eyed until there’s enough to fill my cup. ...

• Pumpkins, peppers and patience

  Posted on Thursday September 17th, 2009 at 18:06 in food, unschooling, evelyn, kids are fun, mom-sanity, cleaning kids messes

  n my quest to live at a child’s pace, and just let my kids “be” I’ve been making a point each day to accompany my 21 month old on a walk to the garden each afternoon. She gets “itchy” to go outside with the older g...

• Learning about Moths

  Posted on Saturday July 25th, 2009 at 18:36 in homeschooling, grace, unschooling, homeschool science, evelyn, kids are fun, wherever we're living

  caption id=”attachment_1737″ align=”alignright” width=”300″ caption=”moths are exciting”][/caption] We have moths. This old house doesn’t have all of its window screens and every now & then ...

• Road trip to a clean kitchen

  Posted on Monday June 15th, 2009 at 17:00 in house, grace, unschooling, madelyn, gabriella, evelyn, kids are fun, san juan island, wherever we're living, cleaning kids messes, driving with kids; road trips with kids

  The trip we just took to San Juan was exhausting, but wonderful. In my mind, being stuck in the car for hours was probably the worst part. Having 8 souls with different needs occupying a mere 25 square feet (my guess) makes for some piercing shriek...

• Graduation and Baby Communication

  Posted on Friday June 12th, 2009 at 02:50 in homeschooling, dancing, evelyn, kids are fun, homeschool support

  Our Homeschool group has an annual graduation ceremony. I love it, because it’s for the whole family. My kids look forward to it all year long. They involve all the kids in the group, awarding every child for meeting SOME kind of goal to wra...

• An Absolutely Perfect Day

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 08:26 in homeschooling, grace, unschooling, my girls, meagan, madelyn, gabriella, evelyn, kids are fun, emilee, marriage stories

  Field trip- San Juan Island Wow- can this have been the best day in our family’s life so far? We arrived at the loading dock for the ferry on time, since I misread the itinerary and didn’t realize that our crossing was figured into the t...

• So you think your baby can dance

  Posted on Tuesday June 2nd, 2009 at 01:24 in evelyn, kids are fun

  At the risk of being known as “the lady who keeps posting pictures of her baby dancing” I just had to share this video that my older girls took. If deep thoughts like this rock your world, then please enter your email address: ...

• Field Trip to the National Zoo

  Posted on Sunday May 31st, 2009 at 00:30 in grace, unschooling, sibling rivalry, homeschool science, evelyn, kids are fun, baltimore 2009

  Last week we went to visit my parents in Baltimore, Maryland. We took the kids to the National Zoo and they had a wonderful time. My sister went recently with her son and was going on and on about how it was “Just like when we were kids”...

• Singing & Dancing

  Posted on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 03:24 in homeschooling, unschooling, meagan, yakima, evelyn, homeschool art, kids are fun, emilee, a girl's gotta have friends, mom-sanity

  Last weekend was a busy weekend on stage for the Russell girls. On the Friday before Mother’s Day, Emilee played Sleeping Beauty in a local production of Cinderella (Or how a guy named Pauly turned out to be a fairly good fairy godmother) She...