Using an Antique Renfrew Cream Separator
How we’re using an antique Renfrew cream separator to get the cream from our highland jersey’s milk.
Sledding and a Giveaway winner
We've officially gotten our big snowfall...in fact it's still coming down. The girls are of course thrilled and have taken up sledding in the front yard. Dan made them some starting ramps to add a little more pizzazz to their sledding experience. They are quite...
No Sew Cloth Menstrual Pads
I've been using cloth menstrual pads for six years now. A few years ago I was organizing a pad making party to makecloth menstrual pads for a group of school girls in Uganda. It was somethingthat I shared on my blog and I am still getting emails from individuals...
31 Days of Nature Walks-Gathering Chestnuts
This afternoon the girls unanimous wish was that we would take a picnic and go play on the hills at Fort Anne . On one of our many visits there this summer (it's their favorite place to go play.), I had noticed a large chestnut tree and had made a mental note to...
31 Days of Nature Walks-Keep it Simple
As a mama with three little ones, I know that especially in the cooler months it can be hard to get everyone dressed and out the door. We are blessed to be just yards away from hours of exploring in our own backyard but I know for many it just isn't that easy. Perhaps...
Memories at Milford House
We've been waiting until Dan's busy season eased a little to take advantage of some days at Milford House. About 30 minutes drive from us, it's a perfect distance for us to take a few days. We've been the before while Dan was doing photography work and knew that it is...
8 Ways to Encourage Adventurous Eating
Our kids like food and they like to eat. I wouldn’t say they are big eaters exactly but they certainly enjoy their meals. They each have things that they really like and things that they would prefer not to eat. I’m not going to say that there are never...
The Family Milk Cow
We've somewhat settled into having a milk cow and I thought that I’d share a post (or two or three) on the addition of a milk cow to our farm and I figured that I better do it before I got really comfortable so that I’d remember all those newbie,...
Farming with Children
Our lives just received an added slight interesting dynamic for the next while. It was a beautiful sunny spring day and as Dan had the morning off, we spent it outside doing the spring hen house clean out, turned the garden, and played with compost. The girls were in...
April: 30 for 30 challenge
It’s April and the past few days of sunshine have been amazing. Dan’s been working hard on the shelter and fences for our new addition while there is light and then, trooper that he is, works his other jobs after dark. The girls have been loving playing in the field...
How to respond when your child has been abused
In my previous post, I talked about the proactive side of protecting our
children from abuse. I shared some thoughts on the ways that we parent
can better equip our children against abuse. You might be wondering how
these last two posts relate to becoming kindred;
I sit here with great sadness in my heart because I know that so many
times despite our best efforts and our deepest desires to protect our
children, they are not always protected. They are not always safe. Our
children may experience things in life that are incredibly hard and that
we as parents will hardly know how to respond, love, and connect with
them through those painful things but this is a place where they need us
to connect with them.
Talking with our children about sex
Talking about sex with our children is probably rated as one of the hardest topics but it’s also a crucial one as we are part of building the foundations of our kids lives. We are trying to carefully guide our daughters through these early years, and to set them on...
Eat & be Merry
A while back, I talked about the way that we eat. After some conversations, emails, and questions with others, I realized that I had kind of missed the mark and I felt bad about that. My intention was to share some food for thought (haha) and perhaps I did for some...
Caesarean: It’s still your birth and your baby
With my medical history, I was considered a “high risk” pregnancy from the beginning of my first pregnancy. I fought against what that seemed to entail with each of my doctors, both of whom I have known and had a good medical relationship with for years (28...
Nearer Still~Being a Doula: Guest Post
After a caesarean with my second daughter, Cecily, due to complete placenta previa, I knew that a VBAC would be a challenge with my next baby. Especially here in Nova Scotia where midwives are basically unavailable. I asked Lola to attend my birth for several reasons;...