WWOOFing With Kids
The Basics
I get asked all the time if you can WWOOF if you have kids.  The short answer is yes!  Many hosts do allow and even encourage volunteers to bring their children.  But actually doing it can be challenging.
What is WWOOFing, exactly?  Willing Workers On Organic Farms or Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms, [...]

Great Sites for Homeschoolers, Parents, and KidsWe’ve been homeschooling for the last year and a half, and we’ve been traveling. We’re currently in France, and English language books are hard to find. Not to mention, school supplies are a bit pricey! Wherever I’ve been, the Internet is a great source for free [...]

New site for kids – Online-Kidz.comI’m helping develop a new website for kids, called Online-Kidz.com .  I’m really excited about this project.  We have a few videos and advice columns up.  It will soon include more of these, plus games, recipes for kids, music, and more.  Plus, we want to have drawings, photos, videos, poems, [...]

The Red Tent by Anita DiamantI was drawn first to this book by its beautiful cover illustration.   It’s in the style of  a classical oil painting, and shows a woman in a Biblical landscape who is obviously suffering from a great tragedy.  I looked at the description, and found that it was about Dinah, a [...]

Book Review: The Girls by Lori LansensI found this book incredibly interesting and I read it constantly until the end. What was so interesting? The author is from Canada, the characters were well developed, and it is a story about conjoined twins (yes, siamese twins, but the proper term is conjoined twins). Of [...]

It all makes me realize that my baby’s getting older (and therefore, so am I).

Homeschooling Tips – How to Get Your Child to Enjoy LearningDue to constant traveling, I have been homeschooling my son for the last few months. We have gone through different stages where he enjoyed it or didn’t, and I’ve had a few struggles getting him to listen and to actually like doing work, especially [...]

A Very Personal Post: Ectopic Pregnancy and Losing a BabyI wrote this back in June, when it happened, and since then I haven’t even felt like writing on this blog. On top of that, we’ve had various computer issues. Anyway, now I’m getting organized again, and I feel I have to put this on, [...]

The River Why by David James DuncanThis is one of those rare perfect books that I will want to keep forever to loan out to friends in need of enlightenment or encouragement. It has everything: a good storyline; characters that are real, complex and that you would want to meet in real life; it’s funny; [...]

Whale Rider Movie ReviewWhale Rider is a lovely little movie about a rural Maori town in New Zealand and their search for a leader. It’s about the struggle for a little girl to be accepted, about the struggle between tradition and modern ideas, fulfilling your dreams, and about love within a family and within a [...]