We are a noisy, messy, happy, wacky family in rural Minnesota.\u00a0 Our family consists of me (Alicia), my\u00a0 husband (Daryl) and five kids — Victoria (Toria), Rhiannon (Rhia now, or Annalee or Anna here on the blog in the old days), Jack, Alex and Fiona.\u00a0 Our oldest kids have now left the nest and live in their own little houses nearby.<\/p>\n
I started my website A Magical Childhood<\/a> in 2001, when our oldest kids were tiny.\u00a0 At the time, I had a newsletter<\/a> that I sent out full of magical ideas, crafts, links, musings and such.\u00a0 I sent the Magical Childhood newsletter out for about 8 years but more and more time elapsed between issues as our family grew.\u00a0 In 2009, I replaced the newsletter with a mostly-daily blog (first at LiveJournal, then WordPress, and finally moved to our website just recently).<\/p>\n Along the way I’ve added related sites — A Magical Homeschool<\/a>, A Magical Life<\/a> (with foraging and sustainable living content about how we live a modern, old fashioned, sustainable life together), and Wild Kids Magazine<\/a>, a free printable nature magazine for kids and their grown ups.<\/p>\n There are no ads on the Magical Childhood website or here on the blog.\u00a0 This has never been about making money for me.\u00a0 I love children and I love people who love children, and this is just a place for me to share the same sorts of things I wrote in my newsletters all those years.<\/p>\n I hope you find something here to make you smile.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n ~Alicia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are a noisy, messy, happy, wacky family in rural Minnesota.\u00a0 Our family consists of me (Alicia), my\u00a0 husband (Daryl) and five kids — Victoria (Toria), Rhiannon (Rhia now, or Annalee or Anna here on the blog in the old days), Jack, Alex and Fiona.\u00a0 Our oldest kids have now left the nest and live…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2784"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2950,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2784\/revisions\/2950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}