Prairie Garden

July 2015 . . . holy smokes . . . what a month.  What a doozy. It started off with Jamie's plunge into a secondary infecti...

Collectively, we've been sick three times in two months, all upper respiratory infections, and this last one has a deep, nasty cough to...

I read the following poem aloud during lunch today -- Hear what the mournful linnets say Hear what the mournful linnets say: "We bu...

We had an expander installed into Diego's mouth last week to widen his palate and make room for all his teeth to grow in.  The reason f...

Our Eliah is two years old.  He still feels like our baby.  He's so little by comparison.  So we carry him around on our hips, baby-t...

We've been enjoying eating out of the garden again: lettuce, spinach, scallions, parsnips, cilantro, dill, rhubarb.  It has been so deli...

I thought more about my What a diff post and realized that, duh, I now have FOUR children, ages ranging from 2 years old to almost 10 years...

I try to re-read posts from each particular month from years' past on my blog.  I like to reminisce, compare notes, remember phases and ...

I recently listened to a fashion podcast when it dawned on me: the people who are really into style and fashion are the ones that are very i...

My goodness.  Getting at blogging is harder and harder for me these days. Shucks, I just sent out our 2014 Christmas letter just last week....

  E-yi-ya has gotten into the bike craze too. Bbbbbb-bbbbbb-bbbbb (this is a motor-tricycle)   Puddle-stomping on a sunny morning...

  Truen decided it was time. This spring. Seven years old. Time to learn to ride a bike.  And by golly, he did it.  It took him tw...

QUOTE #1 Mama: "Where's the ball?" Eliah: "Dere ball!!" ~ A first for Yi-ya, putting two words together. QUO...

I am regularly looking for ways to streamline our life, to put the structure in place so I don't have to think as much and put myself in...

Eliah (21 months) now says, "Papo!" and points to the top of the refrigerator (where we keep the pacifiers) when he wants one.  H...

We were gone on our annual winter visit to the Twin Cities the week before last -- First with my friend Laura in Wisonsin, then with my...

I'm sure you could tell by my recent post that I have been working through what I've come to call a "mothering slump" in ...

I had an epiphany last week while listening to a podcast. Organization is a continuous process, not an end-goal.  It is as unrelenting and...

The sweetness

I am finally at the place in my life where I am drug-out, bone-tired by bed-time.  It seems like it used to be "just tired" when i...