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A thoroughly empty nest

  As mid-2022 approaches and we are facing the likelihood of not having any of our four kids “home” for the first summer ever, it seems we really are empty nesters now. We still have an unbelievably ancient dog though,

Miranda April 25, 2022April 25, 2022 Being active, Family Matters, Main, Moving on, Out on the property, The Natural World 2 Comments

Back to the garden

Although I’ve kept herbs and occasional greens growing next to the deck, I haven’t grown a proper garden since (checks blog archives… ) 2008. That must have been the point at which the water line broke, and I started taking

Miranda June 23, 2019June 23, 2019 Gardening, Main No Comments

Done?

Are we done raising children? It almost feels like it. This is the third year with all three older kids living and working far from home. Fiona turned 16 this week and is incredibly self-sufficient, living 90 minutes from home.

Miranda January 28, 2019January 28, 2019 Main, Moving on 1 Comment

My big kid’s big job

Erin was poised to finish her Masters in Violin Performance at New England Conservatory this past May. We anticipated that she would eventually land a full-time orchestra position, but the classical music world being what it is, we knew that

Miranda October 16, 2018October 16, 2018 Main, Moving on, Music education, Travel 2 Comments

Spinning

I bought a little spinning wheel. It’s about the size of an SLR camera and weighs a fraction as much. It came from a Kickstarter campaign I backed. I paid about $50 and like my other favourite Kickstarter reward, it

Miranda July 18, 2018July 31, 2018 Fibre arts, Main 2 Comments

Food management complexity

Honestly, I feel like my life is primarily about food management these days. I have one family member who goes to school five days a week and dances six days a week and who therefore needs eleven proper meals a

Miranda September 24, 2017September 24, 2017 Family Matters, Main No Comments

Second year of school

Fiona has begun Grade 11 at the big mainstream school in Nelson. Compared to the scheduling chaos of last year, her first year in school, it has been a very smooth start. She likes being back at the routine. She

Miranda September 6, 2017September 7, 2017 Main, School No Comments

Mountain Goat Hike

We continued our end-of-summer alpine hiking tradition as best we could this year. Instead of four or three of us female members of the family, we only had two of us. Sophie spent the summer train-hopping, road-tripping to the States, launching

Miranda September 5, 2017September 5, 2017 Animals, Being active, Main, The Natural World No Comments

First year of school

Fiona finished her first year of school, Grade 10, just over a week ago. Over the previous three years she had taken two core courses (math and science) and two short electives (Spanish and dance) at our local village school, but this

Miranda July 8, 2017July 9, 2017 Homeschooling, Main, School 1 Comment

Raising teens in a digital world

When it comes to teens’ use of technology, I feel strongly that we should listen to what the experts have to say. Recently I’ve waded into several threads on social media about youth and digital media. One was sparked by

Miranda February 26, 2017July 1, 2017 Family Matters, Main, Parenting, Rants 4 Comments

Post-asbestos progress

It set us back about three weeks and cost a lot of money, but the asbestos is gone, and the renovation is moving ahead again. First the roof came off. Then it poured rain all weekend. Of course. There were

Miranda November 19, 2016November 19, 2016 Main, Miscellaneous, Out on the property No Comments

First school term

Fiona has reached the end of the first term of the first semester of her first year fully enrolled in school. She has a part-time course load, with just three out of four time-slots filled. She is taking Art 11,

Miranda November 18, 2016November 19, 2016 Main, School, Science No Comments

HazMat Adventures

Our Nelson place is the eyesore on the block. We bought it because of that. It was affordable and well situated, and that created the possibility of bringing it up to neighbourhood standards and eventually reselling it for a price more

Miranda October 19, 2016 Main, Out on the property No Comments

My friend in Nairobi

Almost a year ago I attended a meeting of local New Denverites who were interested in the idea of sponsoring a refugee family. Out of that meeting, the Slocan Valley Refugee Coalition formed. We opened a bank account and started fund-raising

Miranda October 10, 2016 Community, Main, Miscellaneous No Comments

Physics is hard

Fiona has now been in high school for two weeks. It feels like a month! In both a bad way and a good way. Her life has been so crazy full that it feels like a month must have passed for all

Miranda September 21, 2016 Main, School, Science No Comments
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