Family Life & Kids


Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

March break & renovations

March break & renovations

Early March break I posted earlier this month about taking a break from our usual school routines these past couple weeks. That break is coming to an end but it was very productive. My parents came to visit for a week with the express purpose of repairing and painting our ...

Early March Review - Finding Sanity & Joy

Early March Review - Finding Sanity & Joy

I have a lot I want to write and I'm struggling with how to condense it all. I think that's why I love photography so much - a picture says.... you know the rest. For some inexplicable reason I want to summarize the last couple weeks of our life, I ...

Brienne's swimming post

Brienne's swimming post

I jumped off the end of the swimming pool today. I wasn't very comfortable but I did it! And I went back floating and the water was cold. And I shivered the whole time. (I can't seem to log into Brienne's blog so I'm posted for her.)

Snowshoeing Date

Snowshoeing Date

In a departure from our usual do-everything-as-a-family routine Laurent & I went snowshoeing, just the two of us, yesterday afternoon.

leaky oj

leaky oj

We were at BJ's today (kind of like Costco) buying a few items and when we got to the till I noticed the screw top of the OJ jug was leaking a bit. I muttered a complaint about picking a bad jug, even though it was otherwise perfectly fine looking. ...

Happy Birthday Laurent

Happy Birthday Laurent

Yesterday we celebrated Laurent's 7th birthday with a race car themed party. Laurent decorated the walls with large drawings of cars and sent racing car invitations. Daddy set up an xbox borrowed from friends to play Need for Speed, we put together Laurent's hot wheels track and raced little cars ...