Here at Rhythm of the Home, we know how important reading is to you and your family. Children are natural lovers of stories, and sharing seasonal books and poems with them can create traditions that can be passed down for generations. A few of our readers recently shared their favorite winter reads with us, and [...]
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When my family moved aboard our 32-foot sailboat a year and a half ago, I was worried about all the wonderful things my children would miss from our Waldorf-inspired lifestyle. Our move meant abandoning a life rooted in the earth, our small patch of vegetable garden, and our dreams of chickens and fruit trees. It [...]
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Most of the year when my family and I are out and about, I bring my point-and-shoot camera along to capture our adventures. In spring and summer, our photos are full of the deep saturated color of flowers, the lush green of kale and broccoli in our garden, blues and pinks from sidewalk chalk, and [...]
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Since the Autumn Equinox, the earth has been falling slowly into its slumber. As Winter Solstice approaches, the time of darkness and reflection is upon us. As spiritual beings we come inside ourselves after a long season of reaching out and expanding. The sun is reborn through the winter solstice and light returns again to [...]
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As many of you are aware, we here at Rhythm of the Home have extended an ongoing invitation to members of our community to share the rhythm of their own daily lives and families with one another through photographs posted to our Flickr group. These photographs are submitted by our readers and contributors, and are [...]
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As I look around the blog world, Pinterest or Facebook, I see a common theme: a return to the land. Small farms all around the world are being purchased and transformed. Families who had been on the same land for hundreds of years are releasing their tenure, and handing the soil over to someone else. [...]
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When a woman enjoys a peaceful, supported pregnancy and looks forward to a pleasurable birth, there is no doubt that a sense of bliss will create the optimal mental and emotional state for a new mother during labor. Supporting our beautiful, blooming mommies-to-be is a special commitment. Offering positive energy, stories and blessings is a [...]
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It is Winter. The waters are frozen. The trees are bare. The heart is still as the season of death descends and the sound of grief echoes in the quiet sleeping garden of the soul. Winter is characterized by water, the healing water of tears. We invite the ancestors in the Fall and in the [...]
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The rush of the holiday season had ended, the days became unbearably cold, and our spirits were restless, waiting for the warmth of spring. Winter was a time of quiet reflection, a time of enjoying our precious six month old son. Yet our family of three was anxious to warm our hearts with the closeness [...]
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I see a young lady emerging before my very eyes. Somehow after that tenth birthday arrives, everything begins to shift. Each of her siblings before her have handled this change in their own way, and I expect her to do just the same. I watch her become her very own self. Like sweetpeas in early [...]
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I love to make up little rhymes and songs about what my children and I are doing. More often than not, they don’t make sense or I throw in some obscure word just to get it to rhyme, which my son thinks is hysterical. These days he joins in too or makes up his own. [...]
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. –Lao Tzu Do you notice that as the holidays approach, it’s so easy to get swept away by the stress and chaos that oftentimes comes with it? How many gifts do I have to [...]
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