One of our butterflies emerged from it’s cocoon yesterday. The excitement at our house was palpable. Then Ben spotted what he thought was blood dripping from the butterfly’s back…. and the joy turned to despair. “What if it’s going to…
I don’t normally consider myself a prude. But even still, there’s not much worse than being in a crowded movie theater with your little kids… and having something really inappropriate pop up on the screen. Last year, I took my…
Somethings a little askew with Emma today. She is definitely out of sorts. Could it be that her front tooth is hanging by a thread? I have a snaggle-tooth daughter. I’m sort of getting a Nanny McPhee vibe. Her sister…
Any woman who sews or knits, or weaves, blends colors in a tapestry or creates a patchwork quilt, knows by the feel that a single thread is weak, but the weaving, the blending, the intertwining with many others makes it…
I’ve slowly… very slowly gotten to work on my son’s quilt for his bedroom. The hardest part has been coming up with the pattern I wanted to use. Ben liked a bull’s eye pattern… but I wanted something just a…
A great way to cut back on your grocery bill is to add “Peasant Food” recipes to your menu. Peasant food is typically very inexpensive to make, and is often quite healthy. Most peasant food includes lots of vegetables and…
I’ve been thinking about Earth Day over the past few days, and in doing so, I went back to the post I wrote last year on Earth Day. I was about my grandmother Maxine Morgan, really all our grandmothers, and…
Thankfully my children are past the age of drawing on walls with crayons. But the other day my girls were in full art mode at my kitchen table. After they cleaned up their crayons and pencils, I was left with…
Yesterday Ben and I went to the bank and to open his very own savings account. In went the money he has earned by taking care of our neighbor’s cats while they are on vacation, lemonade stand earnings, and birthday…
My mom, Leslie and her friend Norma are launching a website for their quilt pattern company, Remember When Pattern Co. This weekend my husband and I took some of their quilts out to photograph them for the site. We took…
Yes, I am still alive. Cleaning might have done me in! But I’m back… and I’ve got pie with me. Last week one of my dearest friends had a new, sweet little baby boy. And yesterday I made her dinner…
Actually, cleaning is in order. My house needs it. Bad. After a couple of weeks of less than stellar health… I’m feeling a little overwhelmed by all that needs to be done. I can’t leap over my laundry pile. I…