Category Archives: Duendesday

{life with a curious and crazy almost 11 yr old} On a perfect day you can usually find Duende up a tree! Most of our older apple trees are kooky with lots of crossing branches and good places to grip – she can get up into most of them (Ted still confounds her, his mid-sectionContinue reading “Duendesday: Wood Imp”

{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} I love watching her ‘work’. She’s both very intent on what she is creating and also, just doing her thing. After a wonderful week of pampering (for my birthday) from my little peach, her first ice cream of the season (promised by the Tooth Faerie –Continue reading “Duende Wednesday”

{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} She’s an opportunist for any moment to scooter; keeping not one, but two scooters in the car just in case she can convince someone to scooter with her. When we finally made it to the Farmer’s Market (after a long Winter), Duende was less interested inContinue reading “Duendesday: Much to do”

{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} Duende loves Spring. She’s happy to have the sunshine and longer days. Running around to see what the creek is doing this time of year, doing hula hoop tricks, even trying to ride her bike on the firmer ground. Which is hard around here – weContinue reading “Duendesday: Early Spring”

{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} Ever since she was a small pea Duende has loved to hunt for things – and eggs for Spring is a special treat. Most of her egg-searching career has been inside our various homes because this is Maine and outside is generally covered in snow duringContinue reading “Duendesday: small obsessions”

{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} Duende is already making a pile of her favorite Spring books (A Bell for Ursli, Rechenka’s Eggs, Miss Maple’s Seeds, and A Curious Garden to name a few…) and reminding me that yet again, I am late at considering the coloring of eggs for the VernalContinue reading “Duendesday: almost Spring!”

{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} Oh, my little burgeoning witch; to where or what direction will her witchy ways blossom? Will she be a Hedge or Folk Witch like me? A Forest Witch, a Kitchen Witch, a Faerie Witch? Somehow I see her (though I can’t tell her, she needs toContinue reading “Duendesday: my little witch”

{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} There’s going to be a new sheriff around here, and it’s not going to be some sweet little sassy 10 yr old I know – ha! No, she’s a good girl but we need to reassess the way we do things. She’s at a new junctureContinue reading “Duendesday: a new day”

{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} Happy Midwinter! Our Imbolc holiday was nice – we put away our Winter celebratory stuffs (take down the tree, put away the lights, stockings, and decorations of which I try and keep to 2-3 medium boxes, no more), we cleaned (it’s so important to take theContinue reading “Duendesday: Midwinter”

{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} We have stepped into Kid Twilight Zone…hear the music? She’s officially gone off the deep end. It’s all cardboard, all the time. This past week she made cardboard and cloth flip-flop’s for the dog and when he didn’t want to wear them, she made him cardboardContinue reading “Duendesday: the Crazies”