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Autumn splendor.

My favorite season of the year is Autumn. Time for gingerbread, cappuccino and making woolens… and today is perfect – overcast, a bit of a chill in the air, but only cool enough to need a sweater…Today, I really need to be putting up more tomatoes,...

A glimpse of Tuesday.

   Lizzie’s first day of preschool.       One of Allison’s amazing chalk drawings!        Some fabric for one of the birthday girls arrived in the mail.  The day started with typical Tuesday happenings. A few books being read about...

Some birthday cake?

      We ended up without a football(at least American football) for Lizzie’s cake, but we did find some other cake decorations to use. For the cake and frosting, I used recipes from Apples For Jam. I absolutely love this cookbook, from main courses to...

A picnic = happier Momma.

The morning didn’t get off to the greatest start, Luke tried his new gluten-free cereal and didn’t like it. So for another morning, I make far more breakfasts then I care too. I still had dishes from the evening before and more dishes is something I never...

A bit of this last week.

Days go by so rapidly. Some many times I have so many things I want to get down on paper or here, and by the time I get to the computer, I have forgotten or am too tired to record it all…  Lizzie took the photo of Alli and me Some of the flowers in the garden-I...

Hello sunshine.

The sun is shining to welcome the first day of Spring.         In February we started working through the book “My Garden.” It breaks down the gardening cycle in weeks, starting in January and ending in October. We first started this sunflower in...