Nature Studies have always been an intimate, intricate part of our family. First, as part of our elementary years of homeschooling, but then as a part of a family heirloom that my teen daughters still add to today, almost 2 decades after it all started. Read on if you’d like to know more about our family’s […]
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I love perusing the photo card after she has borrowed my camera. Her 11-year-old perspective is fascinating. The angles she uses. The backgrounds she chooses. And the subjects she gravitates towards. Love seeing the world through a daughter’s eyes. Just need to stop and do it more often. And not only through images on a camera card. I need to allow
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My daughter made my Grandma’s Strawberry Pie today. It was a long time in the making. But I’m so thankful we weren’t in any rush at all. DISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links. ♥ The Secret to Amazing Strawberry Pie? I think that may be the secret to perfect-every-time, made-from-scratch fresh strawberry pie… take it slowly. Something
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I assured her many times. She did not need to water her newly planted fruits today. Buckets of rainfall had provided a deserved respite from her arduous chore. She had carried watering cans, carted hoses and sprinklers, and inspected her plantings every day for two weeks. Having mini orchards to call her own had been a dream
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I’m pretty much obsessed with attracting frogs and toads to my garden. And I am always extra happy when one greets me while I’m pulling weeds or staking plants. This cutey often visits me while I’m weeding around our squash patch. Which makes me exceptionally happy given the trouble we’ve had with squash beetles in
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My wide pine flooring is patriotic. No, my old farmhouse floors aren’t red, white, and blue. In fact, in some places the centuries-old planks are horribly worn, with no stain at all. But their age and width tell me they’re patriotic. Our New Hampshire farmhouse was built right after the Revolutionary War. The American
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It rained steady all day. Morning till dark, and long into the sleeping hours. I longed to gather armfuls of the luscious lilac blooms that were bending their beauty outside my windows, under the weight of the rain. I did so during a brief break in the deluge. But I was awestruck with a different
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Her favorite flower–the dandelion–was hated by most. But there’s fascinating things to love when you’re learning about dandelions. Keep reading for 10 things I bet you didn’t know about dandelions. But be warned, if you keep scrolling you indeed may learn to love this innocuous weed. DISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links. Grandma’s favorite flower grew prolifically
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They know how much I love a good story. So they baked dozens of them. And these stories, as hokey as it sounds, are baked forever in my heart. Scroll below for my family’s favorite traditional cut out cookie recipe. Or, if you’d prefer to go with all-natural maple syrup cut out cookies, those are
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“Promise.” That’s what she called the withered looking strawberry plant as she gingerly opened its brittle roots and fanned them across the luscious topsoil she had lovingly prepared for it. She saw past its dry, ugly roots and joyfully focused on the minuscule, tender shoot that represented so much hope to her. She knew it
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