We finally sat down for a session of painting. We were inspired by these paintings. Everyone was focused and into the process for a long time – that makes me so happy.

School has started.  Brian and I spent a lot of time anticipating how Bea would adapt to school. She liked school in Switzerland and she got a lot out of it, but she had some big issues. So I worried and worried and worried some more.  So far it’s been going really well and we…

Today Claire made me a cutecumber sandwich with her play food. I hope she stays three for a long long time.

My first project for our new house – Claire’s headboard is done. It started out like this:  Somebody thought metalic paint would be a good idea. This is the footboard that I have not tackled yet because I don’t think we’re going to use it. Here it is all clean and purple and pretty: Now…

School starts on Monday – to finish off our summer we spent a good chunk of the day at the Beach. Everyone else had the same idea – it was busy, busy, busy!

I was hoping to come away with some lamps or a hamper for Claire’s room, but instead I found some pretty old sheets. I was thinking some of them would make darling nighties. Or I could just use them for making muslins – can’t beat the price. Or maybe we could just use them as……

Here are Bea and Claire’s rooms right now. I can’t wait to take some of that wall paper down and do a hundred other things to make the rooms more our own. I’m working on a headboard for Claire. I found an old Jenny Lind style bed that I’m repainting. She asked for purple (my…

Not much to report here. We’re gearing up for the start of school and still trying to settle into our house with all our stuff. Here’s Brian explaining electricity to Bea – atoms, protons, generators, charges, etc. It’s not a great photo, but it shows something I love. Bea just eats it up when Brian…

You know that saying about how it has to get worse before it gets better. Well we seem to be stuck in the worse zone. Things went from crazy when our stuff was delivered to a complete disaster area now. It seems like it’s taking me forever (and a day) to figure out where all…

Our boxes and furniture came on Wednesday. It was a long eight weeks that we waited and I was so looking forward to having my bed, our toys, our silverware – everything. But then on Thursday I was just completely overwhelmed all day. I staggered around opening box after box not feeling like I was…