I just figured out how to create a navigation bar up top on my blog and so created a little "About Me" button. I kind of like what I wrote and so here it is :-)
First of all, please don't be offended by anything I say. I love you all! (lqimh - laughing quietly in my head)
I left my job as a librarian in January 2011 in order to stay at home
with my three kids (Eaden-age 5, Naia-age 3, Taven-age 2, and Mirek-born
June 12, 2012). It is the best decision I've ever made and although
money is tight, life is good! We are an unschooling family with
apparently no method to our madness. However, I am patiently working
toward creating a more self-sufficient, slow, and full life for my
family and loving every second of it. Quit your job! (if you can of
course) Create a home! -Megan
Interests:
unschooling, homesteading, camping, backpacking,
parenting, sustainable living, natural living, gardening, reading,
cooking, beer, wine, bioregionalism, living history, thrift stores,
baking, outdoors, music, family, sewing by hand, tom hodgkinson,
libraries, Texas, sewing with a machine :-), slow food, urban chickens,
wildlife, the simple life, family, crafting, making art, handwork
Homeschooling:
My thoughts and beliefs are constantly evolving
on this issue, but as of right now we are unschoolers. I like some
Waldorf ideas, handwork primarily, but I think the obsession with gnomes
and fairies is a little weird :-) I'm not too into Montessori mainly
because what I see is a lot of time spent on little activities meant to
teach things kids will learn anyway (colors, numbers, shapes, etc.). Now
I am by no means an expert on any of this, maybe not even a little
knowledgeable....And I am talking about young kids here. I like a lot of
the Charlotte Mason type stuff I see, but mostly as it pertains to
older kids. However, I've stopped planning so called learning activities
for my kids as I have found it is not really time well spent (for me or
them). We just live and learn.
Pretty and Expensive Toys:
Listen, I love pretty toys. I understand when
people talk of buying less, but buying higher quality. It all makes
sense. But in my experience, it kind of gives me heart palpitations. I
bought my daughter the expensive Stockmar crayons and felt like I had to
watch her with them at all times. I followed her like a hawk. Don't
break those! Put them all back!. Let me put them up! Then, the horrible
horrible moment...she broke one! After one day! I couldn't believe it! Then I bought
the kids a few very expensive handmade wooden toys on Etsy. Well guess
what? They broke those too! The durable wooden toys that are supposed to
last generations! So the blogging community made me feel guilty about
not having handmade beautiful toys and I was a sucker! No more! We get
our toys as hand me downs or from the thrift store. That's a "greener"
solution anyway, in my opinion. Plastic baby dolls for everyone!
Birthing and Breastfeeding:
Do whatever the bleep you want! If you want to
give birth at home, fine! In a hospital, fine! Epidural? I'm sure the
majority of pioneer woman would have had one if available! Vaginal
birth? Fine! C-section? Okay too! Do you want to breastfeed until the
kid is 8? Fine by me! Formula until they are 9? Alrighty then. Just do
what makes you feel comfortable and what is right for you! It's no one's
business but your own!
Living with what I have:
My house is not an old redone farm house, I
don't have antiques, we all are not running around in beautiful handmade
clothes all of the time (we get those from the thrift store too
mostly), we don't have cows and chickens and goats (but we do wish for
them), or acres and acres (or one acre) of land. However, we do our
best, we are happy with what we have, we are thankful, and we do not try
to hide our lives. We (I) do seek to capture the beauty in our lives,
but I do not wish for this blog to be all about perfection. We have ugly
plastic things in our house, we have dirty carpet, dirty walls, hideous
paint and wallpaper on our walls, and we watch t.v.. But guess what? We
are very "green," (nearly everything is bought secondhand or given to
us by others), we try our best to eat local healthy food, and we are
attempting, little by little, to become more sustainable. We do not have
a lot of money and that is okay. We have chosen this life and we are so
very thankful for it.
