There are a lot of technical things wrong with this image, but I LOVE it anyway.

  It’s most certainly NOT an original idea, as thankful trees are all over the internet, but I am so happy that this project that I’ve been wanting to do for a couple of years actually got done this year!  And we all really liked it, so I am hoping…

On Saturday the weather was amazing, and we were very grateful because we had done hardly any yard work all throughout fall season.  There was much to do to get ready for winter around the yard, so after lunch Mr. TOF went down for a nap and we put our…

  In our house there are mandatory showers on Sunday mornings and Wednesday mornings.  This morning The Banana was standing in the kitchen debating about what hairstyle she’d like for kindergarten.  She asked for princess braids. To make princess braids I braid the sides of her hair and join them…

Inspired by my friend Kristell, who served fresh oregano from her backyard on baked potatoes when we visited her in Montana last year, at the beginning of the growing season last spring I planted two pots of herbs:  oregano and rosemary, which happen to be my two favorite seasonings.  Not…

YaYa spent the better part of the weekend creating this amazing drawing of B6 and B7 Fairy apartments and Fairy Condos.  I wish you could see this up close, because the teensy tiny details are truly remarkable, and everything in the drawing is thought out and has a purpose.  There…

I caught Mr. Trouble on Feet coming around the corner with not one but two pairs of child scissors in his hands and a grin on his face, and for a second I thought about snatching them away and putting them out of reach, and then I remembered that my…

My weekend really wasn’t that great.  It was dark.  It was drizzly. It was foggy.   And the honest truth is that it was full of grief for my lost baby, that kind of debilitating grief that sneaks up on a person when they very least expect it.  I wish…

He’s been having fun working on projects, although admittedly we don’t get up to the kids writing area nearly as often as I’d like.  He loves markers and dot inkers.  His favorite colors are blue, orange and red.  He also likes green.

My husband and I tend to be rather moderate in our political views, and quite private about our opinions, which are probably getting a bit more set as we get older, but are still tempered with quite a bit of perspective and ability to see both sides of most issues.…