Friday Favourites
1. AJ from the Carnival Band sent me a link to a photo by Wayne Worden in their flickr pool. It’s from 2012, and is such a gorgeous photo of Esmé that I wanted to post it here. Esmé has been a big...
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windblown
One of the books that Esmé added to the library pile last week is called Windblown, by Edouard Manceau. Originally titled Merci, le vent, it isn’t a book that I would’ve picked. I like warmer kids...
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More Not Back to School fun!
At the last minute we packed up beach toys and spare clothes and a picnic and headed to the Not Back to School Picnic at Jericho last week. Extra bonus? It was Jack’s day off! She never gets to go...
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thankful
On Monday afternoon we picked up Jack after work and headed out of town while most everyone was wending home after the holiday long weekend, hence the traffic jam going the other way. We met up with...
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New Project!
I’ve been sensing a shift in Esmé’s project focus lately. It made sense to set aside her entomology work when the weather turned and it got colder and many of her beloved bugs became harder to find,...
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Mondays with Hawk
Monday mornings are Esmé’s least project-y time of the week, being that her class at the Lyceum is the one and only commitment we have outside of home. We’re out all the time, don’t get me wrong, and...
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Dissection Day!
At long last there was just one more sleep until the Vancouver Aquarium’s dissection class for homelearners. Esmé was beyond stoked when she went to bed last night, and this morning it was the first...
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beautiful concrete
On one of our Monday dates, Hawk and I headed to Granville Island while Esmé was at the Lyceum. My reason to go to Granville Island was to get three very specific shades of blue Prismacolor artists’...
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pretzels
Jack and Hawk made pretzels the other day. I love pretzels, but didn’t have them for years and years and years when I wasn’t eating gluten. One of the wonderful things about eating gluten again is...
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solstmas
What did we get up to for Solstice and Christmas? A cabin by the sea. A ‘tree’ from abandoned branches. Burning paper wishes for 2014 on a Solstice fire. Beeswax candles. Glow. Family. Paper garlands....
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sick days
It’s been a wicked winter. Hawk and I have been sick since the beginning of December, and are only just getting better now. And then last week, Esmé woke up in the middle of the night and vomited on...
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taking the time
Hawk has been carefully and mindfully observing the same construction site since the buildings were demolished. In fact, just before they were torn down, he and I had hot chocolate in the café that...
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Happy Birthday, Esmé!
Dear Esmé, Yesterday you turned five. You can read, you are an ace with numbers, and you are the fastest runner I’ve ever met. You’re working on riding a pedal bike, but still aren’t very interested...
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Project-based Homeschooling away from home
Call it whatever you’d like … life-learning, home-learning, world-learning, roadschooling, travel-schooling, homeschooling, unschooling, lifeschooling, hackschooling, independent learning, or just...
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Hearts of Sayulita!
It’s Valentines Day in Sayulita! We decided to do a scavenger hunt for hearts, starting at our house. Sayulita is full of love and hearts, some of the most gorgeous hearts we’ve ever seen. Esmé had a...
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San Sebastian del Oeste
On our first day here, we met Barbara at the beach. She’s from Comox, and filled us in on what she’d learned since arriving a couple of weeks before. We saw her a couple of times after that, and then...
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our Mexico curriculum
Our Mexico curriculum? Doesn’t exist! Or, at least, not in any formal way, which I’m sure you are all shocked to hear. We’re mostly life learners, really, with a smattering of Miquon and Reading...
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art, side by side
One of my favourite ways to spend time on this planet is by making art. Drawing, painting, making, writing … generally any kind of creative mucking about makes my heart all warm and sparkly. Add kids...
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home | school | life subscription giveaway!
A handful of smart, lovely folks are putting together a new homeschool magazine, and are launching their first issue this spring! home|school|life magazine is going to be full of information, advice,...
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wanderlust
Even before we left Mexico, we were talking about when the kids and I could get out of town again. I’m not actually a city person, so when we moved down from Pemberton almost five years ago, Jack and...
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