Finding Normal

Finding Normal

I'm currently searching for a state called normal. If anyone finds it before I do please let me know where to locate it. In the meantime, the search was temporarily suspended this morning while the kids & I went sledding. My enthusiasm for winter is waning but I choose to ...

Snow Day Journal, Wednesday February 13

Snow Day Journal, Wednesday February 13

8:28 am We all sleep in after returning home late from the previous night's Banff Film Festival tour. After the 6:00 am automated phone call from Bates we go back to sleep and don't get up till 8:00 am. In the meantime however I keep waking up worried that the ...

Banff Mountain Film Festival

Banff Mountain Film Festival

Our family attended the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour last night at Merrill Auditorium in Portland. What a blast. The whole program was 3 hours long and we didn't get home until 11:30 but it was worth it. The films were beautiful and the people and geography they explored ...

Weekend Sledding

Weekend Sledding

We went sledding this weekend with our good friends the McLeods and Russells. I'm fairly certain the adults had as much fun as the kids - maybe more.

February Lilac

February Lilac

I feel a bit like this lilac bush today - frozen in midwinter blah. We've gotten lots of snow these past few days and we haven't seen much of the sun. Just bright white snow and dull gray skies. Kind of sums up my spirit. But the buds on the ...

The North Wind and The Sun
Goodreads

Goodreads

Thanks Em for inviting me to join Goodreads. I'm trying something new and "shelving" and reviewing all my recent reads on Goodreads.