Prairie Garden

I feel like I've Discovered Greens this fall.  We've been eating out of our garden for eight years now, but I don't think I'...

Our Little Guys: Eliah and Jamie  They were watching the heating guy check out the furnace. I love their sweet faces and Jamie peekin...

Last week the younger two went through a day-long "doll phase", where they were exceedingly pleased by carting around their own li...

I'm still getting up early each morning, though the time has settled in right around 5:00 AM.  I realize that I needed to get up at 4:30...

I've been learning all kinds of interesting things in the kitchen this past year, but the biggest accomplishment is broadening my abilit...

I've been working in the kitchen this morning and putting together split pea soup.  The boys are right with me, playing peacefully with ...

I love these pictures . . . the colors, all of us together, Blaine's beautiful hair, Truen's sweet face, Jamie and Eliah's...

My early, early mornings are continuing on track.  I am extremely motivated to keep this time of solitude in place and rise anywhere from 4:...

Oh my goodness, I don't think I even posted during the month of August. That is life now.  It just is . After stewing on it for a we...

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...