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 …

Barnkammarboken

When Stora Pojken was little, we were given a beautiful book called "Blå Barnkammarboken" which roughly translates the Blue bed-time book. When we went to lessons at the Swedish school, one of the teachers was using another, Silver bed-time book of songs which included a CD, and a few weeks ago when I was looking …

Välkommen till Svengelska Hemskolan

n Years ago, when the children were little, I kept a blog called 'Svengelska Hemskolan'. "Svengelska Hemskolan: Homeschooling in the UK with links to Sweden with intentions to follow the Charlotte Mason philosophy, mostly using Sonlight Curriculum, and also themes / projects / unit-studies, lapbooking and which usually looks a lot like unschooling!" Since the …

Memories of Lidingö

This is probably a bit random and disjointed. It's largely taken from a series of tweets that I posted, so apologies for anybody who has already seen most of it. Apologies also that there are no photos - I have some, I just can't figure out how to get them into WordPress. Earlier in the …

Introducing the Little Bears – history part 1

"Little Bears" was originally going to be "Little Bears Family Dayhome" (1) - a childminding service, way back in 1998 when we were first home from living in Sweden. We had decided to move back to the UK because we were a little homesick, and thought that we should get Dragon-tamer's name down for a …

The Simple Woman’s Daybook

My friend Kathryn (the bookworm) introduced me to the Simple Woman's Daybook meme, and I thought I would give it a go today:http://thesimplewoman.blogspot.com/Check out The Simple Woman for links to other Daybooks and instructions if you want to add your own.Outside My Window... it's grey and drizzling. Actually it looks very lush and green out …