We never really know, from day to day, what each day’s work will look like. Nor do we know whom will be tasked with which project. The children’s needs come first so meals and laundry and school are always on the list. But each of the children ends up helping with whatever needs doing, be…
Do you ever head to your local gardens or closest national park and wonder how it manages to stay so beautiful year round? It could be because it’s a native garden. A native garden consists only of plants that are native to your country and region. They are easy to maintain as they’re adapted to…
The days are warm and the nights are cool and the rain falls with some semblance of regularity. When we walk the land we find pear blossoms and salad makings and dirt filled with seeds at all stages of life. It is spring, so they say. I’d say this is a busy time of year…
Maybe it’s the new baby in the house… or perhaps the entire month of February in which our whole family was sick. Or, maybe we could chock it up to two full and lovely weeks of family visiting… and the car accident that kept them here a bit longer. (They were spared injury but the…
