In other crafting news, the kids were all in a flurry one day to sew up some dolls. Cedar, not surprisingly, wanted to make a zombie doll, while Ashton opted for a sweet cloth girl. We had fun,…
Valentine’s Day card making is such a fun ritual around here for Ashton and me that I just needed to post pictures of it. We had fun, she and I, allowing ourselves into that lovely timeless world of…
That last photo is of the lovely mountains so close to us. Because it’s sort of representative of our life here now, I wanted to post these photos here of our homeschool group’s recent trip to explore the…
The kids and I visited our local Marine Science Center recently and had a fantastic experience. We asked for guidance, and were given our own private tour (by none other than an extremely learned and impressive fifteen (going on twenty-five) year…
Well, I certainly didn’t intend on putting so very many pictures up as I have over these last few “2014” posts. And these are just a FEW of the many beautiful moments I’ve captured this year. I guess…
I made into a couple of collages the photos my dear friend Cassie took of our adventures together during our last few months in Florida. It’s silly, and I know the pictures are so small here that you can’t actually…
Books and cookies, movies and hot chocolate (with peppermint schnapps of course), crafts and gifts: We’ve been hard at work Elving over here, and doing our best to hit all the traditions of the season. There has been a…
I see this random collection of photos and I wonder how they all fit together, as they sure don’t appear to tell a coherent story. But they do go together: They tell the story of my life right now.…
Matt has been on a gymnastic/martial arts kick lately… well, he wants to learn that stuff and wants our kids to learn it, too. So, as we research options for engaging our family in lessons of some sort, he’s…