I’m married to a devout reader. My husband is the type of reader who has multiple books going at the same time, gets nervous when he doesn’t have one waiting in the wings, and always reads before he falls asleep (on top of any other reading time he can squeeze[Read more]
It’s no stretch to say our family is in a rut when it comes to evening meals. The truth is we’re simple folks with simple palates, content to stick with what we know. But when 5:00 pm catches me by surprise, I stand, like a deer in headlights, staring in our[Read more]
It’s rare to hear someone say, “Boy, that weekend went by too slowly!” So, occasionally, it helps me to look back at my family did together, to remind me how much we crammed into our 2-day Sabbath. 1. We celebrated our oldest son’s 12th birthday. For all the potentially high[Read more]
While my brain is working overtime, composing daily emails during Lent, my hands have been completing some of the projects in my to do pile. I love the way this pillow turned out (thankfully, so does our youngest son, owner of said pillow). Long ago (and yards of fabric away) this was[Read more]
I have prattled on in other posts about the many wonderful things we’ve enjoyed thanks to our county’s library. Without exaggerating, I declare their newest program is, to me, better than all of their other programs combined. They now have a Seed Library! At a time when the cost of[Read more]
The countdown to Valentine’s Day has begun. Our oldest son has aged out of the all-class-valentine projects, but our youngest has a few years left to enjoy this tradition, so we agreed to use our next snow day to knock out 23 (meaningful, but fast and free) somethings he could exchange[Read more]