December 4

We love to watch The Great British Baking Show, especially this time of year. Today we tried a technical bake challenge (recipe and directions for marbling the frosting here). I mean, it’s baking with kids, so of course there were tense moments and lots of mess. And Clara came in third; there were tears. But overall […]


December 3

I call this one What It’s Like to Have a Brother. Snow shoveling photoshoot inspired today by Rebecca. 


December 2

📷: Fields Maranville, age 3 This afternoon River tried to teach Simon and me to play Risk. Let’s just say Simon and I could both use some practice. At one point when I forgot to do a key part of the game (one that would have given me “lots of guys”), I teased Riv that […]


December 1

Confession: I made Jason hang up the stockings in the middle of our game (Pictionary played like Charades instead of drawing the clues on paper) so that I could have a properly Christmasy backdrop for my DPP shot. Confession #2: I really don’t like any of the pics I took today because I don’t like […]