My kitchen cabinets have been ordered and I’m feeling excitedly nervous about the project. They should be delivered at the beginning of August. It’s the biggest thing I’ve done – so many decisions. Will it look OK and more importantly will it all make a functional room? This morning I got a cabinet door sample…

For Father’s Day Brian mostly just wants to go for a long bike ride and not have me nag him to get home already. So we let him ride today. The girls and I drove up to Volo Bog and he rode his bike. We had a nice picnic and a good long walk and…

We picked strawberries this week. We took a friend of Claire’s and it was a drippy hot day. It seems less common for people around my town to go picking strawberries or blueberries or anything like that. So it’s happened a few times now that I’ve taken a little friend of Bea or Claire and it…

Is there any moment happier than when you walk out of school and you have your whole summer ahead of you. Ahh, to be a kid. For this happiest moment I made the happiest cookies. The recipe is from Smitten Kitchen and I completely copied her when I took the photo below. A jar of…

We are just a few short days away from the end of the school year. Claire will finish kindergarten and Bea will finish third grade. I think often of how my days will very soon be different because Claire will be in school for a full day.  The girls seem particularly happy lately. They are…