I can't believe I've been blogging for a full year now. I started blogging because my SIL urged me to try it out. Honestly, I didn't think it I would make it to a year, but here I am. Being part of the blosphere has been an adventure. I enjoy reading other...
Now that we've started keeping rabbit kits for the purpose of breeding and selling we need a way to tell them apart. Enter the tattoo artist...Tattooing the inside of the rabbit ears gives a permanent way of identifying one rabbit from the other. It's also...
Sweetpea is already 7 months old. Her introduction to solid foods has been slow, partly because of her disinterest and partly because of a recent ear infection. But over the last week she's finally started to show interest. So the time has come, once...
I believe that I'm officially done canning this year (please ignore the pears processing behind me). This is the most canning I've done - ever! I've discovered that I'm quite a fan of it, obsessed might be a better word. You know...
I realize that I've never properly introduce our furry friends. But first a little back story...A year and half ago we decided to raise rabbits. I can't pinpoint our decision to raise rabbits to something specific. I know that it grew out of a desire to be more...
Long ago I made some lemon curd for a cake and decided that it was really yummy stuff! But I've never made it again...until yesterday. I've read that some people make up a batch of lemon curd and store it in the fridge to use on scones or other baked yummies....
With all the bulk of my canning done, I'm excited to start creating other things. But, I'm not quite ready to let go of the canning. Surprised? Probably not. Last night I starting thinking of ways to decorate my canned food. The first thought that came to mind was...
There's a booth at our farmers' market where the worm ladies hang out. I have never paid much attention to them in the past. I always thought that people who keep worms were strange. I still have memories of my friend's mom who kept worms in her coffee table. We...
Last night I finished reading Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne. Paynes explains in his book that we are raising our children in a society of "too much". Too much stuff, too many scheduled activities, and too much access to adult information...
This morning I took a picture of our Jesse Tree. It's looking a lot fuller but we still have many more ornaments to add on. I'm really happy with the way it's coming together, but we are having some structural issues with the ribbons holding the ornaments - some are...
The only things Monkey likes about the Jesse Tree is the part where we hang up the ornament. We do our Jesse Tree in the evening as a family so Monkey is usually tired and has a nonexistent attention span. At first we tried to get him involved but not...
We are now on Day 3 of our Jesse Tree reflections! The first night was hilarious (and frustrating) so we changed a few things and modified our expectations. Things are going a lot smoother now. We use a variety of books during our reflection time. Our main books are...
Advent has begun and our Jesse Tree and Advent wreath are set up. I spent time organizing and preparing for Advent this year but I kept on getting this nagging feeling that Monkey was being left out in some way. So I gave it a bit of thought and came up with a...
I am so happy that I managed to finish our felt Jesse Tree. For some reason a bunch of our fabric stores closed so I couldn't find any large pieces of felt. I ended up buying the felt for this tree in a city 2,000 km away! (I was there visiting family). We won't start...
Today we celebrated the life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary. Her life story has always inspired me.St. Elizabeth of Hungary is the patron of bakers - how neat is that! So I thought it would be fun to make some Hungarian rolls called beigli. These rolls are commonly...
At the end of summer I was tired of canning. I had canned a bunch of jams, jellies and chutneys with my sister-in-law and 40lbs of pickles on my own. Thankfully I've had a few months to recover so when I found pears by the case I bought 16lbs of them. I probably...