Category: Posts
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Reading Life
In a car, on a boat, with a goat, in the rain, on a train, in the dark, in a tree, in a box, with a fox, in a house, or with a mouse… whenever I can help it, we’re reading. Here are a few titles we’ve recently enjoyed: What are you reading?
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The End of an Era (aka The Occupational Hazard of Being a Realtor)
Car salesmen are fickle with vehicles, often upgrading to newer models as soon as they hit the showfloor. Computer programmers (like my husband) rotate electronics seemingly with the seasons, gifting their wares as a love-language. Mechanics tend to have full garages and driveways; photographers have portraits adorning ‘most every wall of their homes. And, statistically,…
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Yes to the Dress
Their big day is still months away, but Baby Sister and her Saintly Fiancé are hard at work planning every detail of their upcoming nuptials. Generously, they’ve asked all five nieces and the lone nephew to have a special role in the festivities… My girls will be junior bridesmaids, alongside their oldest cousin; Little Man…
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Christmas Keepsakes
This Christmas, two of our little elves worked away on an extra-special, top-secret project to bless our extended family… After our beloved Grandfather recently passed, I swiped a stack of his old shirts from the donation pile. My Christmas elves then lovingly crafted them into keepsake throw-pillows. (I borrowed this touching idea from a neighbor…
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Heaven & Nature Sing
Joy to the world, the Lord is come– let earth receive her King! “They drank healths, told stories, sung songs, “reminisced,” as the old folks say, and had a thoroughly good time.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women Merry merry, holly jolly, hap-hap happiest Christmas!
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Visions of Sugarplums
For the first time in fourteen years, we’re not getting our Christmas cards out on time. Our mailing list will have to wait until New Year’s, and in the meantime enjoy this impromptu pic a sweet friend snapped at the church potluck photo-booth, this morning. Recent holiday festivities include our annual redneck tour of the…
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Semester Symposium
In preparation for a proper Christmas holiday, we’re putting a bow on our studies*, wrapping up* the first semester of our seventh (unless you count preschool, in which case it’s our ninth) homeschool year. Tomorrow I submit grades and confer with our facilitator from the online charter school under whose umbrella two-thirds of my pupils…
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Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime
It’s not Christmas ’til I burn my fingers on hot, molten sugar-magma. Quote me. My much older sister heralds HER holiday by prying the lid from an ornately festooned popcorn tin, eager ears tuned for the satisfying ‘pop’… we all have our own groundhogs. For the twelfth year in a row, I spent an evening…
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Evergreen Boughs
In Oregon, one does not simply select a Christmas tree from a parking lot… One must traipse through the woods (or, ahem, a tree-farm) wielding a saw, chop down a live conifer, and drag said conifer back to their abode like a proper lumberjack. We settled on a Nordman Fir this year, though Douglas is…
