Prairie Garden

My poor chapped lips. I'm not kidding. I accidentally licked my lips on and off one day last weekend (I don't even know why...perha...

Making my own laundry detergent is something I've been thinking about for quite some time. My reasons include: Cost: I'm pretty sur...

I can't believe how skinny I am. I didn't include my head...I wasn't smiling because I didn't realize Squeeze did a whole b...

In the mail yesterday came a "guide to your labor & delivery experience" from the hospital where the back-up doctor we saw del...

I'm fairly certain that Starbeans said his first simple sentence this morning. All parts were there, nothing was dropped. He said, Pickl...

We are in the midst of potty training, I think. My SIL & BIL finally got so exasperated with their 3 year old, who had shown no sign of ...

Squeeze took this picture. Isn't it lovely??

I'm not totally convinced, but I think I may be in the clear . It has been almost 3 weeks now, but it is possible that my lips have fi...

After discussing the children's books I've collected over the years, I decided that I needed to experience the pleasure of providin...

I have some major baby brains going on over here. I'm having a hard time focusing on any task other than day-to-day survival that isn...

Aren't they pretty?

I really, really love Nursery Rhymes: I'm discovering this through having a toddler. A good friend gave Starbeans a Mother Goose Nursery...

I'm on Day 4, Week 2 of my End of Chapstick Odyssey and I'm sorry to say that it isn't getting much better. I've wondered i...

Our water supply comes from something called Rural Water, meaning that we have water piped into our place for some kind of cooperative, rath...

It's Day 6 . I'm still uncomfortable -- it isn't pure torture like this weekend was, but it is still quite unpleasant. My friend...

Squeeze took this picture this morning before he went to work. Isn't it lovely? I can actually appreciate the corn, based on this phot...

I haven't used any kind of lip balm or chapstick since last Thursday night. I am a warrior; I am a trooper; I'm not giving in. The o...

I'm thinking about breaking my addiction to chapstick/lip gloss/lip balm/blahblahblah. Now. Today. I am so sick and tired of slavishly l...

Here's my boy with his new dump truck shirt, his cousin - " Yee -vi", and his favorite construction vehicle of all time - the ...