Indoor sunshine
January 22, 2008
Desperate for a little beauty in my life I started working on curtains for our front porch today. Sadly, until we get the porch painted the entry will still look dreary but at least it will have pretty curtains. I washed, dried, ironed and cut the fabric. One of these ...
Bradbury Mountain Snowshoeing
January 21, 2008
Snowshoeing Bradbury MountainPhoto album from our snowshoe trek at Bradbury Mountain. It was our first trip out this New Year and it was great to be in the woods. While we were out there I actually let it slip that I might consider winter camping if there was a way ...
Yarn
January 18, 2008
I'd like to become proficient at crochet and eventually knitting so I can justify buying beautiful yarns. I'm like a kid in a candy shop when I'm around farm grown and homespun wools. After seeing the mounds of wool at the farm in December I needed to come up with ...
Viking history
January 17, 2008
On Thursday afternoons I pay bills, balance the checkbook and attend to financial matters. It is the one time during the week that the kids can watch TV (not including family movie nights). I've been renting educational DVDs from Netflix for this weekly TV time. Right now we're studying Vikings ...
Winter Carnival
January 17, 2008
Tonight was Winter Carnival at Bates. It's a fun indoor play time for kids - big & small. The kids bounced, ran & climbed on "blow up" structures. And we all enjoyed the chocolate fountains with mounds of fruit, marshmallows and graham crackers. A fun break in the mid winter ...
Quote of the Day
January 16, 2008
Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself - Leo Tolstoy
Yes... and No
January 16, 2008
I've been thinking lately about how for everything I've chosen to do there is something I'm choosing not to do. Mostly these are not difficult choices to make but it is hard when saying Yes to a good thing means saying No to an equally good thing. I'm currently struggling ...
