Every summer I grow lavender on the back deck in containers. At the end of the season, I pick the purple flowers, let them dry, and fill little sachets with the blossoms. I toss them in my dresser drawers to make things smell nice, and other places. This winter season…

We have waited years to tear out the carpet in our family room and put new flooring in. We debated for years about what kind of flooring to install: Tile? Wood? A mixture? A few months ago we decided it was time for action. The carpet in that room was…

Last weekend a group of women from our church drove up to Adventurous Christians, a small camp close to Canada. We were joined by a group of women from another church in town, (and there was also a group of dads and their kids staying for the weekend as well).…

I love a good picture book, and so do my kidlets, who are now big kidlets. I think illustrated books are for people of all ages. Here are some of our recent favorites: Douglas by Randy Cecil: This is a lovely story, and the illustrations are terrific, so many details!…

It’s Wednesday, which means I am hauling kids to all sorts of places, and waiting in the car during YaYa’s oboe lesson. At least I get some reading done in snatches here and there. I’m on a quest to better my poor attitude about driving kidlets to this place and…

At the piano I learned the middle movement of a Beethoven Sonata. I have been working on the Sarabande from Bach’s G Major Suite for Cello (obviously, on the cello!) but I’m not finished learning it yet. I learned that when the temperature rises wind instruments go sharp, BUT string…