Family Life & Kids

The First Day of Spring

March 21, 2012

Yesterday was a good day. what a novelty to read my book on Laurent's iPod! I birthed my first e-book. Spring arrived on the calendar. And it was the birthdate of both my grandmothers. I didn't plan to launch this book the first day of spring. I didn't give any ...

Sunday Skiing and Simple Suppers

March 19, 2012

Sunday is our sabbath. Our one day a week to have a break from regular life responsibilities. A day to play and rest. We do this is in the great outdoors. Although last week the girls and I stayed in pj's and watched a movie - we need those days ...

Ides of March (on St. Patrick's Day)

March 17, 2012

(No Weekend Edition links today.) I just learned about the Ides of March this week. We were reading Chapter 35 in The Story of The World: Ancient Times (the one that's taken us about 2 years to read through) and came across the significance of March 15th. While reading the ...

Our Sparkle Story

March 13, 2012

When we moved last fall we lost good library service. A big loss to be sure but one we are learning to work around. During that time, with limited access to other resources, I started paying more attention to Sparkle Stories. I had seen their name mentioned on many blogs ...

Sunday with My Girls

March 11, 2012

The boys are in the mountains today skiing. We girls are at home. I don't mean to be sexist here but the truth is sometimes the girls slow the boys down. (Sometimes we kick their butts too, like Celine's dogged determination on our backpacking trip last summer.) And though our ...

The March Perspective

March 9, 2012

March is not my favorite month. It's definitely not spring and it's not the crystalline beauty of January either. It's... March. Melting snow. Freezing snow. Falling snow. Dirty snow. Some days feel like honest-to-goodness winter, the morning temperatures hover at 0F. And other days you feel sweaty and overdressed in ...