It's March 2, and we shovelled our driveway again this morning! Yay!
Yay?! Yay, you say?! Yes, yay. This is Canada, and we need winter. Let me explain.
We are lucky to live in the great white north. The cold, dark winters are blessings in disguise. The drastically low temperatures knock out infectious vector-borne diseases, the vectors that carry such diseases, and invasive plant species. We've had quite a run of mild winters over the past couple of decades, so I'm quite relieved to at last have a nippy one!
May 29, 2014
April 28, 2014
30x30 Nature Challenge
The kiddos & I just went for a fantastic walk through the woods today on a local trail. It's super easy get to, and to complete. Kai wanted to go looking for snakes (there's a great spot to find sunning snakes on the trail), so we packed some snacks, donned our rain suits, and headed out the door!
This is a neat way to promote outdoor fitness ... a 30-day challenge that encourages a 30 minute daily dose of nature for 30 days! A great way to get outside & enjoy spring, as well as health habit formation!
Check out this link: http://30x30.davidsuzuki.org
This is a neat way to promote outdoor fitness ... a 30-day challenge that encourages a 30 minute daily dose of nature for 30 days! A great way to get outside & enjoy spring, as well as health habit formation!
Check out this link: http://30x30.davidsuzuki.org
March 19, 2014
Nature? Yes, please!
This. Is. Awesome.
A couple tackled a 100-day canoe trip, a feat in and of itself, but with their 3- and 5-year olds!!! Yay!!!!!
Check out an article/video here, and another article here! Here's a link the their website … not only are they avid long-distance canoeists, but they've also biked the Andes with their tots!
Limitations are what you make of them. Get outside, away from it all, get to know each other again, and be one with nature.
Now please excuse me while I rethink future work and travels plans. ;)
A couple tackled a 100-day canoe trip, a feat in and of itself, but with their 3- and 5-year olds!!! Yay!!!!!
Check out an article/video here, and another article here! Here's a link the their website … not only are they avid long-distance canoeists, but they've also biked the Andes with their tots!
Limitations are what you make of them. Get outside, away from it all, get to know each other again, and be one with nature.
Now please excuse me while I rethink future work and travels plans. ;)
March 2, 2014
Pupating homonid
Dinner conversations in our house tend to be, umm, unique. Here's the latest peak into our amusing world ...
me: "Kai, come eat dinner"
Kai: "I can't, I'm pupating." (from within an overturned laundry hamper)
me: "Well make it fast, dinner's on the table."
Kai: "But it takes 5000 days" (wow, what species IS she?)
... finally finished pupating, she sits, staring down her pork tenderloin & drying her imaginary wings …
Kai: "What is that brown stuff? Is it nectar?"
Craig: "It's meat flower nectar, good for butterfly wings."
Kai: "Oh, ok."
Have to admit, I never thought the words "meat flower nectar" would ever come out of our mouths.
Mind you, as a friend pointed out, 5000 days + her current age would actually find her maturing into an adult human. Maybe she's onto something.
me: "Kai, come eat dinner"
Kai: "I can't, I'm pupating." (from within an overturned laundry hamper)
me: "Well make it fast, dinner's on the table."
Kai: "But it takes 5000 days" (wow, what species IS she?)
... finally finished pupating, she sits, staring down her pork tenderloin & drying her imaginary wings …
Kai: "What is that brown stuff? Is it nectar?"
Craig: "It's meat flower nectar, good for butterfly wings."
Kai: "Oh, ok."
Have to admit, I never thought the words "meat flower nectar" would ever come out of our mouths.
Mind you, as a friend pointed out, 5000 days + her current age would actually find her maturing into an adult human. Maybe she's onto something.
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