Archive for August, 2013

{this moment}

Posted on August 23rd, 2013 by mountain girl  |  4 Comments »

Linking up with SouleMama…a moment from our week this morning. The first day of school has dawned bright and clear!



first grade at home

Posted on August 19th, 2013 by mountain girl  |  6 Comments »

I’ve been doing some scheming. A little spying, snooping, hypothesizing, and gathering a plan for our school year.  The end result is that I have quite a bit more structure planned for Zia this year.  Gasp. After observing her way of learning–and just plain way of being happy–I’ve decided to switch up last year’s open-ended […]



{this moment}

Posted on August 16th, 2013 by mountain girl  |  7 Comments »

Linking up with SouleMama…a moment from our week. Photo taken by Zia one VERY RARE morning when I slept past 7:00. She had to document it.



solar prints

Posted on August 14th, 2013 by mountain girl  |  2 Comments »

Zia got this solar print paper from one of her friends at her birthday party. It sat on the table for a while, but when Caleb got back, he whipped her into action and they collected some leaves and flowers and made prints. These are sweet as is, but they would also look cool with […]



geocaching expedition #2

Posted on August 12th, 2013 by mountain girl  |  3 Comments »

We headed out looking for another geocache last week.  It was Caleb’s first, so he was pretty stoked.  We used a geocache map that showed landmarks, and it was an easy find. The container was tiny, with no room for any kind of treasure, so Caleb just signed his and Zia’s names and replaced it. […]