We had a great visit with Steve's family over Easter weekend.  We also got to see some of my family, some old friends, and a very ful...

One of the most valuable life lessons that I have learned and am still learning is to focus my energy on things that I can change, as opp...

As I mentioned last week , one of our favorite holiday activities this year turned out to be wreath making.  We almost didn't even do...

One of our Christmas day activities was a gingerbread house/train decorating contest.  We waited too long to buy gingerbread house kits a...

Hi friends!  Was your Christmas magical?  Ours was pretty great and I can't wait to tell you all about it and show pictures next week...

  Good morning, friends!  Do you have big plans for the few hours of daylight we'll get today?    I have already been photograp...

I feel like one of Santa's elves, and it's not just because I live in a festive, cozy house with another small person.  It's ...

Good morning, friends!  As usual, we had a weekend that was full to bursting!  On Friday, we spent the day running Christmas-y errands a...

 Well, we finally let the tree come inside.  The other night we made a party of it and had Rudolph playing on TV while we set up the t...

Well, we celebrated Thanksgiving in full-on party mode.  There was turkey.  There was pie.  There was blood orange sparkling soda in the ...