Welcome to our week in review! We have been living on my sisters farm now for nearly two months and I think we have finally found our rhythm! Farm life has so much to offer our children as they connect with nature and the animals all around them. This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure statement for more information. This week started off with … [Read more...] about Our Week in Review: Including Mending Fences, Baking Pies, and This Week’s Reading List
Archives for May 2016
Inspiring a Love of Reading with the Love of Animals
Inspiring a Love of Reading with the Love of Animals Before our son became the voracious reader that he is today, he was anxious and easily frustrated with each attempt to read. You can read about his favorite books here at Our Favorite Children's Books. We had a little boy with big ideas that could understand complexities far beyond his years. He knew the sounds that the … [Read more...] about Inspiring a Love of Reading with the Love of Animals
Our Week in Review: Including Gardening, Chickens, and Reading
Welcome to our week in review! We have been living on my sisters farm now for over a month and I think we are finally starting to find our rhythm! Farm life has so much to offer our children as they connect with nature and the animals all around them. Back in March (about two weeks before we moved to the farm) Uncle Joe hatched 24 Bantam Ameraucana chicks. Since arriving, the … [Read more...] about Our Week in Review: Including Gardening, Chickens, and Reading
Our Beekeeping Adventure
As many of you know our family moved to my sisters farm in East Tennessee in April. You can see how our first two weeks, of adjusting to farm life, went here and here. This move has been such a blessing for our family, but it has also taken some getting used to. Life on the farm is very different from the hustle and bustle of Atlanta! Beekeeping, for example, isn't something that we saw … [Read more...] about Our Beekeeping Adventure
Gardening With Children
Spring is here! The sweet smell of apple blossoms fill the air and I find it is the perfect time to start gardening with the children. Since moving to my sisters farm it seems the children have taken a wonderful interest in how plants grow. Perhaps it is because their uncle has been plowing the fields, perhaps it is because I keep pointing out all of the fruit trees in bloom, or perhaps … [Read more...] about Gardening With Children