Stuffed Tomatoes

Stuffed Tomatoes

I'm a pretty proud mama this evening. My eight year old wanted to "make something" today. So we put her creative energies to work in the kitchen, and what fun we had. She choose a recipe for cottage cheese stuffed cherry tomatoes but seeing as we don't eat cottage cheese ...

Dancing Girls

Dancing Girls

We went to a community concert yesterday afternoon in Festival Plaza. The girls got dancing to the toe-tapping bluegrass music of "The Grassholes". Beautiful day, fun time. I couldn't chose just one favorite to post so I'm posting a slideshow.

Books... finally

Books... finally

I have been in a dry spot for reading material lately. Just can't get into anything and nothing is grabbing my attention. Thanks to facebook (and a friend's favorites list) I found out that Anne Lamott has a new book. Yipee! We went to the library this morning to get ...

Only in Auburn Maine

Only in Auburn Maine

can I be driving through the deserted mall parking lot (after a fruitless trip to get new eyeglass nosepads - I forgot the glasses at home, arhhh) and come across a parked minivan with a bagpiper (playing the pipes) and 3 young kids riding bikes in circles around their bagpiping ...

Meeting together

Meeting together

I don't really know what else to call it. We met in our home last night with fellow Christians to talk about life, what God's put on our hearts, to pray and play Sequence. None of it was planned except the invitation we put out to anyone interested in joining ...

Swimming Lessons

Swimming Lessons

The kids are in swimming lessons, Maine style, at a local lake. Earlier this summer Celine and Laurent wanted to learn how to swim but I wasn't sure how to accomplish this since we would miss 2 weeks (during vacation) of the swimming programs I saw advertised. Then I remembered ...

Jungle of a garden

Jungle of a garden

Garden Late JulyWe came home from our vacation to a jungle of a garden. This is our first vegetable garden, not counting the tomatoes and lettuce I grew in containers 2 summers ago. Since that is my only vegetable growing experience I am rather shocked that my tomato plants are ...