One of my favorite Christmas traditions is making a huge batch of my grandma’s ginger cookies. We decided that today was Simon’s fifth year, Ian’s third year, and Clara’s first year for helping.
Oh the weather outside is [not at all] frightful. This first real snow of the season is downright amazing — light and fluffy and brilliant. The boys and I scooped (shoveled?) our driveway in record time and then made snow angels to celebrate. DPP pics from past years: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
A warm car and a twenty-or-so-minute wait for big brother to get out of school make it pretty likely that a three-year-old will succumb to a little nap. This sweet child has made me work for it today. His questions have ranged from big, huge, important wonderings — Will I be God someday? Did God […]
Who needs action figures when you have a nativity set? The boys played with the statues for quite a while this afternoon, and I lost track of all their antics. I do know they started by playing Earthquake (lined the figures up and knocked them down like dominoes), and I’m pretty sure I heard “Baby […]
This morning the boys decided they wanted to dress Clara. With a lot of teamwork and supervision (but no actual hands-on help), they got their very patient sister dressed. As Jason would say, #parentingachievementunlocked. DPP pics from past years: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
On a whim, we threw together a picnic yesterday afternoon and headed for the ampitheater (or, if you’re Simon and Ian “ampitheteor,” rhymes with “ampi-meteor”) at Pioneers Park. After lunch the boys wanted to show us their two forts (the spaces behind the bushes on either side of the stage), and we passed a lovely […]
It was not quite warm enough to spend hours outside today, so we made some fun inside. The boys were entertained for about twenty minutes (I was hoping for more). Clara thought the bubbles were delicious. In related news: Simon will not be allowed to wear this t-shirt anymore. It makes him look like a […]
Although I am over-the-moon excited to be moving to our new house in just under six weeks, I am also starting to feel the bittersweetness of leaving this home, where I have lived now for ten years (minus ten days). Today was one of the best days in recent memory, and the old neighborhood did […]
I take photos of my three kids almost every day and of other people (and places and things) when I get a chance. I love to travel. I quilt and read and organize with great passion and in bursts of creativity and motivation with long (sometimes years-long) breaks in between kicks. I like cooking better than baking. Read More...
