Do you have big plans for Valentine’s Day? We’re going low-key this year. Since the kids are getting bigger and have some sense of the meaning behind this day, I plan on making them a homemade card to remind them how much we love them. And include lovey-dovey words that…
Hello friends! I just wanted to take the opportunity to wish you a Merry Christmas! Decorating some sugar cookies has been on my to-do list for the past three weeks, and I finally got to it now that I am on Winter Break. Thanks to my neighbor who wanted to…
There are very few cookies I have met and didn’t like. Nuts, fruit, crunchy, chewy, I love them all. Raisins? Bleh. I think this has to do with the fact that my mom always put raisins in my lunch and I never liked eating them, but if I wanted dessert…
Spring is just around the corner. And honestly, I can’t wait. We’ve had some snow flurries the past two weeks, and that put my kids in a tizzy. Matthew was jumping around the house saying, “No school! No school!” I think in his head, just a few drops of snow…
It snowed an inch in Portland yesterday. For those of you who live in areas where lots of snows is normal in the winter, one inch is probably a dusting to you; but out here, it shuts down the city. And that is what it did yesterday afternoon, today, and most…
The older my kids get, the more they notice things. Here’s just a few things that have been asked of me of late: “Why do I have to eat my vegetables before I can have dessert if Daddy doesn’t have to?” “Mommy, go faster! You need to go faster than the speed…
My younger sister had her baby boy a few weeks ago. I haven’t been out of the “baby stage” for that long (my youngest is 3), but as I was holding this tiny baby, I had such a hard time picturing my kids when they were that young–even though their…
My family and I just came back from camping–in 90 degree weather. In the Pacific Northwest, we usually see temperatures this high late in July or early in August, and it normally lasts about a week. Well, the heat spell here started towards the end of June and lasted almost 3…
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