The girls super-shortened (thank you mean, mean Winter) Spring Break took place over Thursday and Friday last week and I decided we needed to have an adventure or two. As I looked back at our camera roll, I saw picture after picture of the girls snuggled on the couch (thank you again mean, mean Winter). […]
Read more“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on […]
Read moreI always try to find cute books to add to the sugar rush of our Easter baskets. This year, I am super excited about my finds thanks to two of my favorite ‘book recommenders’ (which I don’t think is a word but should be). One of these recommenders lives far and other near but both […]
Read moreIt’s Twitterature time! Somehow this lovely link up at Modern Mrs. Darcy is upon us again. I can always tell how busy my months are by the number of books I have to write about when Twitterature roles around. Only two again this month. Hopefully there will be a few more books by the time […]
Read moreWe are a newspaper family. We are, in fact, so much a newspaper family that the girls thought that everyone got the newspaper in the same way that everyone gets the mail. They were awfully confused a few weeks ago when we explained that our neighbor simply didn’t get the newspaper. We get our local […]
Read more“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.” -J.R.R. Tolkien
Read moreTomorrow Katherine turns 8. I will reading to her class as a way of celebrating her special day. Over the past week, she has been thinking a lot about what books she wants us to read. Earlier this week, we sat on the floor surrounded by picture books. I pulled out a bunch of our […]
Read moreApparently my eyes are rule followers. I’ve always heard that if you’ve been blessed with good eye sight, things can change quickly when the calendar turns to your 40th year. I will turn 41 in a few weeks and today I picked up my first pair of reading glasses. I went to the eye doctor […]
Read moreLong term blog readers may have noticed that last week, I posted fewer times than I have in years. Each day, I thought that I would be able to write a post and avoid explaining why my writing practice is suffering. You see, I desperately want to be believe that I can do everything I […]
Read moreThis winter, my picture taking habit really suffered. When I look back at my pictures, I see tons of photos of the girls and the pets snuggled on the couch mixed in with pictures of deep, deep snow. While this is a pretty accurate depiction of the coldest and snowiest winter, I can remember, I […]
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