… spending lots of time at the beach, especially now that the weather climbed to the upper 80’s this week. As I keep hearing and seeing photos of the cool, gray temps in Washington, where we are headed…
When some of our homeschool friends offered us the opportunity to go to Hoggetowne Medieval Faire, which is almost 2 hours from here and would mean getting up and out of the house early, finding food, and, well,…
The kids and I joined our friends at one of the most beautiful Jacksonville woods, Tillie K. Fowler Regional Park, one bright and gorgeous Sunday. We walked and chatted while kids ran and played– and a couple of…
We have a pretty awesome thing happening right now: A group of homeschooling families here on base found one another and formed a formal homeschool group. What this means is that we no longer have to drive hours…
We took the neighborhood kids for a beach walk on Matt’s last day with us. It was fun, and we need to do it again. All kids love the beach, and I love to watch them be so…
I got to be a photographer for a homecoming recently, and it was truly an amazing experience. Having been on the line of people waiting for my husband to get the heck off that ship, I knew I…
We met Melissa in Great Lakes right when we started with the Navy. She, with her 3 month old baby boy and sweet 2 year old little girl, became our friend in a place where we really didn’t…
When people around me start catching on to the fact that I am often toting around my big camera and snapping photos of all the kids running around… and then when I post pretty photos of their babies…
Well, I mean over the dirt-pile, through the woods and into the river. That’s just where we brought our sweet neighbor buddies on our date swap (we took those kids and their parents took ours on two consecutive…
We took our neighbor friends to the river to fish with us. I’m not much into fishing so I let the adults do the fishing and opted to chase the kids around while they ran, splashed and swam.…