Family Life & Kids
Why we have children
March 30, 2007
Have you heard the latest news? Angelina has adopted another child. I read about it on the cover of People Magazine today while in the grocery store. When I got back to the car, where my family was waiting, I proceeded to tell Damien about the news. We agreed that ...
creative mess
February 2, 2007
What does homeschooling look like today? In a word, messy. It started this morning with finding flat plastic trays to catch the mess and water under our seedling trays. Celine and I took an adult ed course last night on starting seedlings indoors and came home with some seeds carefully ...
A rare treat
September 18, 2006
What a rare treat to have extended family visit us this weekend. We had a wonderful visit with my grandparents and aunt & uncle who were traveling on their way to Nova Scotia for a vacation. Their visit brought up that by now familiar tension in me. The struggle between ...
Mouse in the House
July 28, 2006
So we have a mouse in the house. No, not the kind we want to trap or hope our cat Pixel finds. In fact the exact opposite. We are hiding the mouse from the cat to protect it's life. But back to why we have a mouse. It's not just ...
Winter blah
March 6, 2006
Photos from our hike today I was starting to think I was emotionally unstable or perhaps stark raving mad and then I realized, with the help of my insightful husband, that I simply have the winter blahs. So this hasn't been the most rosy week to post about. I've moped ...
Christmas in Maine
December 30, 2005
We've had a wonderful Christmas week here in Maine. Here's some photos from the past week: So, what have we been up to this past week? Well, last Saturday - Christmas Eve day - we were busy in the kitchen preparing food for Christmas Day. Christmas Eve we went to ...
Tis the season
December 15, 2005
Well it's been a little busier around here than usual this week, I guess that's all part of the season. For the most part this month has been very enjoyable. Since we are not going anywhere or expecting family we can basically relax and not be too busy with preparations. ...
