September 1st, 2010 | Martin Pedersen |
Creating a Healthy Home Life |
Our Transition

“This is a very nice van for you; it has a built in DVD player”. This was the sales pitch we received when we were van shopping a few years back. Lisa was pregnant with the twins and with Annika running around beside us it was obvious to the sales person that this was going to be …
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July 29th, 2010 | Lisa Pedersen |
Healthy & Green |
Lisa's Garden

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 …
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July 16th, 2010 | Lisa Pedersen |
Home Life |
Yummy (healthy) Recipes

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

There is a reason why our website is called FamilyNavigation.com and not FamilyGotItAllFiguredOut.com. We are sailing the wild seas of life with three young kids and we do not know which way to go but together we will figure it out. We do not know what is best for our family all the time and we …
Continue reading Using Competition to Motivate Kids
July 9th, 2010 | Lisa Pedersen |
Lisa's Garden

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 …
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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
June 26th, 2010 | Lisa Pedersen |
Lisa's Garden
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 …
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June 12th, 2010 | Lisa Pedersen |
Lisa's Garden

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 …
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