In a previous post I showed you how we dug the hole for our natural swimming pool. The next step in the project is preparing the hole for the liner. We didn’t want to use concrete reinforcement for this project so our hole is built very much like a pond. The sides slope gradually toward [...]
A natural swimming pool is a chemical free pool that uses nature’s processes rather than chlorine for cleaning. I spoke about natural swimming pools or swim ponds, as they are sometimes called back in February. It was a bit too early for swim season then, but I had it on the brain and thought ya’ll [...]
Last week on Thursday my children were exposed to Hand Foot and Mouth disease because of an outbreak in a town nearby. I immediately knew that I should prepare for a warzone around here. Ever seen seven kids sick at the same time? And Itching? For those that don’t know Hand Foot and Mouth disease [...]
Over the weekend I found out that our kids had been exposed to a particularly nasty virus. Like all sicknesses, increasing vitamin C intake helps your body fight off and recover. One of the easiest ways to get children to increase their vitamin C is to make vitamin C popsicles. I make these popsicles for [...]
It never fails. No matter how careful you are, when you use a product like super glue it’s bound to end up where you don’t want it. I’m the world’s messiest super-gluer. If I open a tube you can bet some part of me is going to be glued to another part. I’ve prayed for [...]
Time. Its probably the “thing” in our lives, most often, taken for granted. I know most people “know” that and yet, some how in the back of our minds we always think we’ll have more. Time flew right by me during April. So fast that I nearly didn’t see it passing. In my defense, I [...]
Thanks Marty for letting me know that the site was down. I am so sorry you guys! I was working on some server stuff and never realized everything BUT the homepage wasn’t working. Again, thanks to Marty for letting me know. I hope you guys have a great weekend!
There have been so many changes lately that it is really hard to catch my breath. April is normally a touchy month for me. Dakota’s birthday is on April 1st, and his heaven-date is April 12th. For eight years I have just floated through the month of April and went through the motions. Not this [...]
Well, as promised.. I am finally posting about our tire swing, which is affectionately dubbed the super swing. Though you can’t tell from the video, at many points during that shoot I am 11 feet or more off the ground. That’s probably higher than anyone ever needs to be when in a tire swing… but [...]
I think the flip flop in our weather has finally gotten to me. We were 80-90 degrees just last week and now we are back into the mid 30′s at night time and 50′s during the day. I woke up early this morning ready to post, and I can’t seem to pull it together. Stuffy [...]
