Daphne is our two-year-old, and one of her very lovable personality traits is improvising. I first noticed this when she and Lina were trying to play a game that requires marbles and couldn’t find any (because I hide things like that). She said, “I know where some are,” and ran away. When I followed her, I found her biting a sort of decorative ball off the top of some large paperclips. She had several loose already. Anyway, this picture below is one of her hot new fashion ideas.  And if you ever run into some fabric you really want to embroider, you won’t be unprepared!

One of the best feelings in the world has got to be grocery shopping. I mean the kind where you know what you need, you get it all,  preferably some pantry items that you don’t need yet, and you come home feeling a little more prepared for life. It is even better when I manage to clean the fridge out first. You get the great joy of seeing the fruit bowl loaded high, and you can say without a shadow of a doubt that you do in fact have an onion. Seriously, nothing beats it. I even  Read More

So I don’t know about how the rest of you are, but personally I like a clean and orderly house. This is by no means saying that that is what I have, but it is what I like. I work for it, daily sweeping what must be pounds of debris off of my floors, struggling with an unearthly amount of unmatched socks, and surveying under beds for ancient sippy cup/ bottle carnage. Sometimes we go for almost a whole week with a pretty clean house! But occasionally something happens and everything collapses -  Read More

Here is a little reminder for those of us in the midst of a good snowfall just what it looks like to enjoy God! I love this dog, and I’m not even a big one for animal videos!

The other night while I was making dinner I spotted our four year old fiddling with the computer. I told her to get down, which she did, and that was that. After dinner we ran out to do some errands and while my husband ran in Starbucks, I goofed around with his i-phone. I checked my e-mail to find a  “Thank you for your $106.oo purchase” note from my cookbook club! Apparently Lina had gone ahead and purchased the entire contents of the shopping cart (which incidentally was not full of anything that I still wanted).  Still, it’s nice to have a little help shopping sometimes!

Here are my babies, getting warmed up for a day of birthday fun! I can’t believe they are a year old already, and we are all still alive! Hurray!