I realized, while we were visiting my friend in her home in the woods of Asheville, North Carolina, a lot of things about myself. It was quite a life-changing visit, actually. I remembered a lot of things I…
These photos portray much of what the kids and I have been doing with our days lately: making lots of new friends and developing relationships with the people we know, going outside (parks, pools, beach, or woods), enjoying…
The weather has warmed here in Jacksonville. I’m not sure it ever gets as warm in Montana as it has in this area, and it’s only the very start of spring (mid-March at the time of these photos).…
One of the things I know about myself is that I LOVE watching my children head outside for adventuring, especially if the adventuring can happen in the woods. I long for a day when our backyard (these photos…
While visiting our friend last week in North Carolina, after reading a library book about a girl who eats bugs, Ashton confirmed that she was going to cook up some worms and eat them. She was dead serious,…
The kids and I visited an old and dear friend in Asheville, North Carolina this weekend, staying for several days in the peace of her warm home. We explored the city, played in the woods, got to experience…
This month begins the rest of our year– of Matt being away at sea, that is. That calendar up there? The blacked out days are his “underways” (on the ship at sea– meaning not at home), then in…
Cedar has been drawing up a monster storm around here lately. And I’ve been wanting something to put on a wall in our house. So, I figured a new chalkboard might be a nice way to watch those…
Getting those body parts fresh and clean. And because, after 7 years of raising children, I don’t think I have even a single bathtub photo of either of them. Sadly they are drawing nearer to the day they…
I sewed a new flannel nightgown for my growing girl. It will be a replacement for this one, again here, and this one, again here, both made for her by her grandma. She wears them all the time, loves…
