Maine
Spring Week-ending
May 9, 2011
A weekend for saying goodbye to familiar places. Our favorite Japanese restaurant, where Brienne has been eating since she was five days old - her first outing. Ok, she didn't eat the food there when she was five days old but she did nurse! A little stop at the toy ...
Celebrate Winter
January 31, 2011
I love having four seasons but winter has been the most challenging for me to embrace with my whole heart. Not as a child mind you. Aside from the "inevitable" colds and flus I experienced, winter as a child was fun. (An aside about colds and flus - my own ...
Saturday Morning Inspiration
January 29, 2011
Every Saturday morning (or Sundays if we hike on Saturday) during winter and fall I prepare baked Maine apples for breakfast. Sometimes I add frozen blueberries or raspberries also. We are still eating the raspberries from our marathon picking in early July. Saturday mornings start slow around our home. We ...
Moving Forward
January 20, 2011
After keeping all of you (or some of you) in suspense we're now ready to share our big news, we have decided to return to Canada in this year of 2011. It's unbelievable the amount of mental, creative and emotional energy that have gone into that one little sentence. Many ...
A Maine Camp Experience
August 28, 2010
For the eight years we've lived in Maine we've heard about "camps". These are, most often, small and rather rustic vacation cottages that dot the shores of Maine's many beautiful ponds and lakes. Where we grew up there were few nice fresh water lakes and no one I knew had ...
Intimacies
August 14, 2010
We celebrated our fourteenth anniversary this week with an over-night getaway to Bethel, Maine's most beautiful mountain village. If memory serves me well (Damien thinks we may have done this once though I don't recall) this is our first ever over-night trip without any children. What with no relatives living ...
