Just like Picasso, we had fun painting with light. A string of Christmas lights: Bea put small flashlights inside her socks: Oh and do you like my new BIG photos. I’ve had them too little for too long.

We went down into the city to see the Christmas Market last weekend. The weather was strangely warm and foggy. The crowd was big.

Mmmmm our house smells like GINGERBREAD! This gingerbread man got a broken arm so Bea made a frosting cast. He might be in pain. Claire spent about 40 minutes decorating this gingerbread girl. I like to call her Hot Lips. After Hot Lips Claire spent about one minute decorating this gingerbread person (no name). This…

I pulled out of the driveway this morning and noticed a package on our front steps. I made a mental note to remember it when I got back home. A few minutes later when I did get back home a mischievous squirrel had chewed a hole in the box and was about to gobble up…

We’re ready for Christmas around here. I’ve gotten all my trinkets out and I’ve carefully placed them around the house.  Every year I get these cardboard trees out. I made them a few years ago – one for Claire, one for Bea. They fit together like a paper doll and the girls each have a…

A few more Thanksgivings in Midland like the one we just had and we will be forced to rename it All The Fun You Can Have With Your Grandmas Weekend. My girls are lucky in the grandma department. Whenever they are in Midland they go from one grandma’s house to the other and they get…

Claire has been taking ballet class again this Fall. This week was parent observation day. Oh golly I do love watching my little doll dance. She spends a lot of time dancing around the house with her ponies lately. She’s got the funniest moves and she’s so free. At ballet class she does a good…

The first snow of the season came on Friday and the girls were so excited. Bea has been dreaming of snow all Fall – she says winter is her favorite season. It started snowing at about 7:30 and we went for a walk around our block after dinner. The girls yelled and giggled and threw…

I pulled the last carrots and beets out of my garden just before our first of the season snow started falling. Then I roasted them for dinner – mmmm.