this is the blog of a farmer's wife, a sustainable living junkie, an eco-entrepreneur, and a homeschooling and work-at-home nanay of three boys and a newborn baby girl
So it's been more than a year. Quarantine, isolation, lockdowns. We are lucky to be spared from the virus up to this point, but I wouldn't say nothing has changed. The new normal is only feeling more normal by the day. If anything, COVID-19 is a game changer in the kitchen... Let me start by… Continue reading how COVID changed food
Over the years, I've hade many people, even those I barely knew or have never met before, come up to me asking about homeschooling. We've literally had strangers, who eventually became our friends, visit us at home because they wanted to see for themselves what homeschooling was like. Sometimes they want to meet our kids,… Continue reading on choosing homeschool curriculum and materials
A message from a homeschooler to parents who think they are failing at it This pandemic has seen many parents take on the role of educators to their children. Parents who are forced to work from home who have children who are not allowed to go to school. In short, homeschool. But the situation does… Continue reading on giving homeschooling a try (during a pandemic)…
four weeks of quarantine and a list of food hacks to survive it... Since the declaration of the quarantine about a month ago, we had been to the grocery once. Miraculously, my children have been well-fed, we are all healthy and well. Also we all seem to be gaining a bit of weight, from the… Continue reading quarantine cooking
7:00am The alarm goes off. I grab my phone from the bedside to see the WordPress app open. I remembered I was supposed to write this post last night but didn't manage to. Here we are a day later. I get out of bed. There's no water in the upstairs bathroom so I forego taking… Continue reading our bahaySKUL day (2019-2020)
6:00am The alarm goes off. Although I’ve been awake for much longer, just waiting for the baby to unlatch before I can finally, very silently get out of bed. I go downstairs, turn on the lights, and see the kitchen sink half-full. Oh my God, I didn’t finish washing the dishes last night.… Continue reading our bahaySKUL day (2017-2018)
"Me time" is a foreign concept to me. Turo and I have pretty much maintained our own personal activities, goals, and undertakings, so while we do a lot of things together, we still have our own stuff to ourselves. In a way, having some personal time is a given, and it doesn't have to come off… Continue reading ‘me time’ when I’m never alone
A couple of years ago, our life looked like this. Turo was running our farm, and managing two other farms in two different locations. He also held a desk-based job, and had to travel to the city several times a month to attend meetings. I, on the other hand, was homeschooling two kids, and exclusively… Continue reading a year with a princess
It’s before 7 a.m. I anticipate the alarm on my phone. Very often, the alarm doesn't go off, because, as you may have guessed, I forgot to turn my alarm on the night before. I’m now half awake. I look at the nursing child beside me and do an imaginary, happy dance when she finally… Continue reading our bahaySKUL day (2016-2017)
I have two school-aged boys who were born in the YouTube and Minecraft generation, when everybody who wants to be anybody wants to follow in the footsteps of Dan TDM or Notch (creator of Minecraft). When the opportunity knocked for us to review an ebook with the title, "When I grow up I want to be... A Video Game… Continue reading when I grow up I want to be a video game designer
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