Cider and Spices

These are my thoughts that have come from a question Mike asked me a few days ago. We were discussing school options for the boys. He knows...

I had so much fun at Bonnie's house carving pumpkins two weekends ago. I had never carved a pumpkin before, so it was a crash course....

Miles is on antibiotics for his mangled face and also a cream for one of his eyes that had started to swell up. Cleo was given her worming ...

Wow, what a week this has been! And today was the doozy. First off, Griffin's lymph nodes, the ones on one side of his neck, have been...

I attended my first MOPS (Mothers of PreSchoolers) meeting tonight at the church we have been attending for about a month now. It was so muc...

I had put it off long enough. I have had the supplies sitting in my craft room for weeks. I finally made my fall wreath today. I didn't ...

Need I say more? But I will anyway. The boys LOVE playing in the dirt! Sammy...

Life has been very even-keel over the past few weeks, but my blogging time has been eaten up by a myriad of other things. Also, my camera ha...

You tell on yourself by the friends you seek, By the very manner in which you speak, By the way you employ your leisure time, By the ...

What a weekend! We spent most of this weekend at Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun. We are all exhausted but happy and filled with some grea...

You were there when we brought our first new baby home from the hospital. You were cast aside many a night because the doc...

Mike installed a program on my computer that makes adding pictures to my blog a breeze! After the laptop crashed, I knew it might be a whil...

We have had so much fun this summer! One of Griffin's favorite things was going to the Day Out with Thomas in Baldwin City. A half day...

We had fun this morning at the McDonald's PlayPlace with a friend from church who has a daughter close to the same age as Griffin. We h...

So I have made my menu plan for the next week. I had to, because I ordered my groceries online this week, and I think that will be how I do...

I can't believe it has been so long since I blogged! Shame on me!!! Well, I'll just jump right back in. We had a boys' poker g...

We went to McDonald's last night to let the boys play in the play area and also to grab a quick dinner. We also thought it might be tim...

I have started going to the gym to work out with a friend. We have just finished our third week of going every Monday through Thursday. It...

I began writing this on Friday night, after a very eventful day, and am posting it a few days late. I need to get with Bonnie to make sure I...

This is our friend, whom we have dubbed "The Backyard Butterfly". He flutters around the whole time we are outside. Apparently ...

Just in case you couldn't tell, the first picture is BEFORE the transformation of our backyard into a safe place for the ...

Griffin has completely filled in his sticker chart! For those who are unaware, Griffin has been potty-training for the last couple of week...

This has been a slide show depicting what it is like to try to take "the perfect picture" of two squirmy little boys. I think the...