We had a huge lesson in patience when friends gave us eggs to incubate. We counted out the days and proceeded to turn our eggs and watch the temperature and attempt to increase the humidity in our little incubators for the 21 days that we had read it would take to hatch our chicks. It […]
Playing Farm – In Real Life
We had the opportunity to get our hands dirty with some more hands-on learning a while back. I just love finding ‘real-life’ experiences for my family. There is nothing quite like ‘living it’ to bring home a lesson. As such, I’m learning to be bold and ask around for opportunities and have been delighted with […]
The Other Side of Cultivated Lives
Cultivated Lives is not only the home of my blog, but it also is the connecting point for our speaking ministry. That’s right. In case you hadn’t noticed the “Speaking” button at the top of the page, it includes our workshop topics and speaker bio’s. While I have a couple of workshops that I offer […]
The Myth of the Mom Who Has It All Together…
This week I read an absolutely FABULOUS post over at Preschoolers and Peace titled, “I Can’t Do This Homeschool Life” where she answers a reader’s question about what to do when everything seems to be crashing in and there is no one to talk to, especially those homeschool mom’s who ‘have it all together.’ That […]
Preparing for Pentecost!
I ended up caving and making my kids that yummy jello treat when we celebrated the Ascension last Thursday. My grocery store didn’t have any blue jello, so we fudged and I made juice sweetened jello (with white grape juice and blue food dye). It was a hit and something we’ll definitely do again next […]
From Rising to Rising…
As you may remember, I like to take time to meditate on and build up to Easter with my family. But we don’t stop there. It just seemed to be a natural progression to continue on and celebrate the Ascension (that occured 40 days after the Resurrection) and then Pentecost (10 days after Jesus ascended)… […]