Again, again

I guess I seem "start blogging" once or twice a year...so here we go again. Since Sam received her own MacBook for graduation and Craig's now resides on the kitchen counter, I can stand here and *maybe* blog more often without sitting in the office.

I imagine this will still be a mostly food blog, especially since I am in an emotional numb zone at the moment. The kids can be followed in images at the www.postfamilydigital.net website.

Cooking the Kristin Way

I love food...it is a motivator and a hobby. Craig often joked when we first met that my family never talked about anything else. He was right, and now does the same thing. My brothers are both chefs and we often trade ideas and recipes, call to exclaim over a dinner we are eating and plan all our visits around what or where we will be eating. It is very common to hear "Do you remember the camping trip that *this* happened?" "Oh yeah, we made *this*...it was delicious."

With that stated, I figure that food blogs will occur more often than others. Numerous friends and family ask me to share recipes, print off a cookbook or call me for ideas on a regular basis and I am hoping I can just post here and send them to it.

My style of cooking is very relaxed...I tend to measure loosely, if at all, and the world would collapse if I didn't change something in a recipe. While cooking I try and lower the salt and sugar content, substitute whole wheat and almost never use anything bleached(i.e. white rice, all purpose flour etc.) Cooking by feel is the norm in my kitchen. As such a food blog might not be a "recipe"; just an idea with loose amounts. I will try and put in recipes with measurements and procedures, but hope that people will be adventurous!

So much for inspiration!

Quality sibling time!

Well, months later and no new posts! I have the best of intentions....Kristin "I meant to" Post. Thinking about this blog and what I would like to do with it was my midnight activity last night.

Previously, I had stated that I would copy over Craig's blog posts relevant to homeschooling or family matters. Instead, I am just providing a link in the side bar and plan on encouraging perusal of his site on occasion. Therefore, those of you who read both sides won't be duplicating and it will be unbearably obvious how little I post. On that note, my new goal is to post at least once a week.

In the past few months we have had two family birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas and a couple of trips to the home town. It has been busy and fun with Elias and Eva both changing so much in that time span. Things have slowed down and we are attempting to organize, simplify and maintain some sort of routine around here. Craig and Sam are picking up the cycling. Elias wants to learn to ride the attachment tandem with his dad and do longer rides. Eva is crawling at super speeds and wishing her legs would just hold her up so she can walk.

Detailing, Recording

Our burgeoning photographer.

This blog will be a review of what we have learned and done. It is always nice to look back and see that "yes indeed, progress has been made." There are too many days in my life when I think the only thing I have accomplished is making it through the day. This is never true....diapers are washed, food is prepared, we have nursed ? times, books have been read and many, many hours have been spent in play. My hope is that in our homeschooling careers we can see a bit of that progress over time. I also hope to do some natural living and food blogging.

In this blog we plan on copying over some of Craig's writings so that they are all in one place. For those of you who read both of our blogs there will be some repeats. For those of you who read this one, you will have the benefit of my husbands point of view. He is also the more prolific writer, so he will definitely add content to this site (while I seem to barely find the time to sit at the computer...it is 2:15 am!)

Hopefully with this blog and our thousands of photographs we will have a good view of our lives to hand down to the kids. I am notoriously bad at scrapbook/journal types of projects, so with luck this will prove easier.