Cider and Spices

I have spent the past few weeks trying to come up with and implement playtime ideas (Hello, busy bags!  How have I been unaware of these lif...

Bullet points today.  I don't have time to write a "real" post and try to tie everything neatly together, but there are so man...

(I started typing this post, and typed several paragraphs before it started sounding very familiar.  I check my previous posts and realize...

I have been using the techniques in Raising Godly Tomatoes , by L. Elizabeth Krueger.  Well, Oliver knows what to expect now.  He knows that...

Oliver 1 year ago. Mike and I watched the movie A More Perfect Union a few days ago.  Not a lot of action and adventure, but it was a ...

  Here he is, my (big) little man!  15 months old today. Cutie-patootie. Griffin had a birthday, and I got ...

We have spent the last month being sick and recovering, and it is so wonderful to be well again!  I am full of pent-up energy now, so I am u...

I am one of those people who thinks they have to sit down and write up a massive, year-long, decorated (preferably scrapbooked) PLAN before ...

This past month has been a whirlwind.  I never knew that so much emotion could be jam-packed into one little month! Several recent deaths ...

It's time for another edition of NEO November!  What?  You've never heard of NEO November?  Well, let me tell you all about it.  It ...

Our little homeschool has gone through some changes since the beginning of the school year, which for us was July 11, 2011.  My plan was to ...

I love my anniversary presents!  Last year, we began a new tradition.  We go to the Louisburg Cider Mill the weekend before or after our ann...

Oliver is 5 months old!  It is hard for me to believe that my littlest guy is so big.  He smiles a TON, which has earned him the nickname ...

This is what we have been up to for the past 4 months!  Oliver is su...

This morning before school, we played dominoes.  With Eric Carle pictures.  It is a lovely game called Matchominoes, which was a present to ...