Balancing Curriculum with Interests

In our more than 15 years of home education, we have moved through various seasons of more and less formal learning. We never quite qualified as bona fide unschoolers (although I was quite attracted to radical unschooling as a philosophy) but nor did we fully qualify as traditional homeschoolers, since we often had very relaxed …

Marriage on the Prairie ♡

I absolutely love being married, and I love being a wife. I didn't think I would - leaving Voyager and relinquishing my control and authority over all my starship personnel was a huge wrench. It took me a while to give in and accept that the Voyager crew had finally, completely and totally abandoned us, …

Looking forward

Hi people 🙂 A happy post for a change. I'm feeling good! I have been so down for so long. All the heaviness of the past few years just heaped up on me and I was so weighed down I couldn't get up. There is obviously a situational basis for my misery - I had …

Studying Health and Nutrition the Fun Way, and Swedish Välling

We are on a bit of a 'health-kick' here right now - we've invested in a juicer, a manual grain-mill, and we are sprouting seeds, making coconut yoghurt and kefir, brewing kombucha, and having all sorts of fun! My 12yos is even growing wheatgrass to juice (they love the whole process! Though I am the …