Kayla and Marisol eagerly await the beginning of the show! Kayla and I had so much fun last Friday night attending The American Girl Fashion Show at Old Sturbridge Village. Old Sturbridge Village is a living history museum which allows visitors to experience life in New England during the years 1790 – 1840. It is… Read More A Historical AND Modern Fashion Show for Girls
Our family is hobbling around today due to cramped hands, splinters, sore backs, and aching leg muscles ~ all from yard work! It was time to get the yard cleaned up before winter arrives in full force, and our only obligation yesterday was Kayla’s mid-morning dance class. We started prepping the kids early in the… Read More Leaves + Weeds + Chicken and Rabbit Droppings = Happy Family & Ibuprofen
Every year at this time, I enter into some sort of “season denial.” I look away when I catch a glimpse of the apples in the local orchards going from green to red. I ignore the blush of orange and red on each sugar maple I pass. And the squash and pumpkins out in the… Read More Summer Wrap Up
I was going to write “it never ceases to amaze me that we vacation in Maine every summer,” but then I looked back at previous “Maine posts” and realized that I write that same phrase almost every year after we return from Maine. But it’s true. I am amazed. And like a good parent, I… Read More The Maine Event Part 2: Family Beach Vacation!
(Those three being the 3 M’s, I’m guessing: Melissa, Melinda, and Megan.) My sister, Melissa, said that the post about getting my cousin’s furniture made her cry, since it was also about our aunt and grandmother. “But I was hoping to see pictures of the NEW furniture,” she added. Yes, pictures would have been a… Read More Furniture & Birthmarks (For the three of you interested…)
Not just the biblical Ruth and Sarah, but a Ruth and a Sarah that I have known and loved personally – two women who have modeled for me a grace in the midst of trial, flexibility in the midst of change – two things that I’m learning are a big struggle for me. Ruth was… Read More Ruth, Sarah, the Hebrews & Me
This has been the scene in my dining room for about two weeks now. I have been writing the end-of-year reports that the local school district requires, and collecting work samples from each child to send in for approval. Supposedly, Massachusetts is one of the most highly regulated homeschool states (anyone surprised?), but I… Read More Ten Years of Homeschooling – Completed! (8 More to go…)
Everyone he told thought is was a joke – that one of his Father’s Day gifts was an iron. But it wasn’t a joke. He loves to iron. (My clothes, too. Aren’t I blessed?) If you asked him why, he would probably say something like, “It is so satisfying to bring order out of chaos… Read More Ironing, Hiking, Praying, Protecting
Is it obvious how much I love smoothies? I think I have one for breakfast at least 3 times a week. They can be so delicious and full of healthy ingredients all at the same time. Our farm share began this week, so on Tuesday I came home with strawberries, kale, radishes, turnips, spinach, lettuce,… Read More Farm Fresh Smoothie for a Full Day
Kayla’s recent choir concert – such a special director and overall music experience! …our life, that is. I have always been fascinated with the word picture of the “cup” in the Bible. I have even been known to go searching for antique (or new) teacups to give girls on the last day of a Bible… Read More A Cup Full and Brimming Over…