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 As many of you know our Annika (aged 5) loves bugs. At her preschool ‘graduation’ after all the princesses, fire fighters, and artists, the teacher announced: “When Annika grows up she wants to be an entomologist”. Most of the parents looked at each other and laughed and the kids all looked confused. Like most parents I hardly even … Continue reading Our ‘Bugging’ Entomologist  Our hope this with year with having a productive garden was to get our kids interested in eating different types of vegetables more often. I wrote about this hope in the Spring in “Will Gardening Get Kids to Eat Their Vegetables?”. We thought that our kids would be excited about eating vegetables that they planted and cared for. So far the results have … Continue reading Eating RIGHT Out of the Garden  We previously wrote the blog “Read to Your Kids Before Bed Everyday” and I thought this needed an update. Annika "reading" to Jada, 2008 We still strongly believe in reading to you children everyday. It takes some time to do but it is worth it, for the kids and youself. We just signed Annika with the Vancouver Island … Continue reading Summer Reading  I had an idea the other day to make homemade pasta. I have never made pasta by myself before so I chose a simple recipe for whole wheat linguine with a tomato clam sauce. My Mother-in-law gave us her old pasta press months ago and we still hadn’t used it which made me feel a bit guilty … Continue reading Keep a Five Year Old Busy for Two Hours  This year we spent over $50 on seeds for the garden with most of them being vegetables but some flowers as well. My frugal nature always questions purchases like this and I wondered why we need to be spending so much when seeds naturally occur in the vegetables and flowers we grow. Some of the things in … Continue reading Save Money Saving Seeds  A little while back we had a family outing to a very nice beach just North of where we live. It was one nice day in all the terrible rainy weather we had been having, so we thought we better take advantage and do something outside. The grandparents happened to be in town with their trailer and were accompanied … Continue reading Giving Our Five Year Old More Freedom Summer has arrived and our garden is in full flower. The garden gradually starts blooming and before you know it is a sea of colour. I was impressed with the way the garden looked when I took these “Early Spring Photos”but the garden has progressed even more since then. Our beds are just packed with plants that it almost looks like … Continue reading Early Summer Garden Photo Essay  We have had an interesting spring for pests in our garden. We have a lot of bugs (to keep Annika busy and happy) but there are a couple big pests that have been more notable. It is hard for me to call these creatures pests, we do live in their environment after all, but they are causing some havoc … Continue reading Pests in our Garden  |
 
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