The great lakes – what an understatement. They should be called the fantastic, spectacular, so big you can never see the other side lakes! This rock was perched on a bench on the steps down to the water. I am trying to be happy, but I also feel like I’m in limbo. Between one section…

We shipped all of our art supplies over to Switzerland – our paints and brushes and colored pencils and paper and markers and chalks. Everything! How can we survive these summer months without some art? We can’t. I had to take the girls to the art store to buy some paints. And wow, we have…

I tried a new recipe for the shortcakes – Smitten Kitchen’s version. It was very quick and easy and I think I would use it again. I also made a strawberry milk recipe from Smitten Kitchen that I first tried last year. If you get your hands on a few cups of good strawberries I…

We are missing Brian like crazy. He sends us photos like this on the weekends.

I grew up doing so much serious camping and I loved it – it’s a wonder that I don’t do more camping with my kids. So I took the girls and Bea’s best friend camping for a couple nights. We went to the Kohler-Andrae State Park in Wisconsin. The park is right along Lake Michigan,…

Have you heard that gardening rule of thumb about how perennials grow – they sleep, then creep, then leap. I think there is some truth to it, but I like to just say that the third year is the charm. We took out some overgrown shrubs in March of 2015. Then I planted viburnums, perennial geraniums,…