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A Successful Elk Hunting/Camping Trip
Tents zipping open. Container lids being popped opened and then closed as a camper searches for some missing item. These are the early morning sounds of our camp at 4:15 am. Apparently no one can sleep so soon all of the hunters are up and about. It feels almost like a neighborhood when the lights start coming on one by one. Sadly, there is no roaring fire so they are huddled over a pitiful flame. It may be just because of the symbolic heat it offers instead of any real warmth they are receiving. I wouldn’t know since I’m snug in my down sleeping bag. I chuckle when I think…
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My Pegboard Wall Tent Organizer
It’s that time of year again. The hunting season is upon us and our annual elk trip is getting ready to begin. Menus Camping Checklists Groceries Gear Warm Bedding Warm Clothing and the list goes on. But what a good time we have. This year there’s about 42 of us heading out to the great outdoors. I’ll once again be staying in our wall tent (which I’m loving) with a wood burning stove to keep me toasty if I should get too chilled. One of my goal is to figure out ways to organize my kitchen set-up in the tent. I think this will be my 3rd year sleeping…
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Feeling Discouraged in Your Homeschool Endeavors?
Sometimes we may get discouraged because we feel we’re dropping the ball in our children’s education. We read the writings of Charlotte Mason or another modern day guru on education and feel the wash of failure sweep over us. We wonder, we wish and we think desperately what we might be doing wrong because our homeschool doesn’t look like what others describe. But I want to challenge us today to consider what it would be if we didn’t have an ideal to strive for. Lofty thoughts, ideals and a vision of something bigger than ourselves are what gives us inspiration to keep trying. It’s what makes us…
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Keeping the Tradition and Celebrating Their Success
Thanks everyone for the well wishes for Justus after his calf riding incident. Justus is getting around but gingerly. He definitely favors his leg and it’s still very tender for him. On Monday we headed up to Lake Powell as a treat for Audrey (age 8) since she finished her phonics program. Celebrating my children’s successes is very important to me. Why not celebrate and make the most of our moments with the kids? We were only a year late in going. 🙂 We weren’t able to go last year and promised we would do it this year but we were almost too late since the weather is starting to…
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A Recipe for Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread
Here’s a Pumpkin Chocolate Chips Bread recipe from The King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion that I tweaked to make it more healthy. A slice of this with a cup of Tension Tamer herbal tea and you’ll be set to start your day off right. And it was needed this weekend. On Friday evening my son entered the Calf Riding competition at our local fair. He didn’t stay on long but while on on the ground the steer stepped on his leg and split it open. Of course, we didn’t know. All we could see was that his pants were torn a little and he was bleeding a little. But we…
