I’m thankful for warm hugs greeting me at the door, recipes that come out once a year, bustling around a warm kitchen before the big meal, sweet cousins, waking up to the smell of baking pie, holding hands with great grandma and the Rockettes. 

There is a lot of not getting along around here lately. So when there are moments like this – moments of giggling and peaceful playing I have to enjoy it. That’s the puppet show curtain that Jennifer made for the girls. It gets used and loved now and then.

Every year I make a Christmas wreath for my mom-in-law. This year I made one from egg cartons. I like how it turned out.

He went to the windows of those who slept,And over each pane, like a fairy, crept;Wherever he breathed, wherever he stepped,By the light of the morn were seenMost beautiful things; there were flowers and trees;There were bevies of birds and swarms of bees;There were cities with temples and towers; and theseAll pictured in silvery sheen!…

Bea wrote a poem: Snow, snow, snowIt’s snowing and I’m knowingthat winter is on its way

When Brian and I went to New York I bought some pretty ribbon to make a skirt for Claire. Claire prefers wearing skirts and dresses right now. She’s been wearing a couple little skirts that I made for Bea a reallly long time ago and they are finally getting a little snug and too short for…

Our house is feeling cozy this week. The temperatures dropped and it just feels good to walk in and feel the warmth. When we returned from New York the girls had decorated for my birthday. Of course they had lots of help from my mom. She brought doilies and they made a darling garland. Say…

I’m just going to skip over any Halloween post because I’m feeling behind and because the weather was so dreadful, I didn’t get any good photos. We’ll go right to a report on my 40th Birthday! One of the benefits of having a thoughtful husband who travels all the time and has tons of airline…

We’ve been soaking up that last warm sunny days of the year and doing all the things that you can only do in Fall. I’ve also been appreciating indoor plumbing this week. We couldn’t flush or run any water down our drains from Thursday to Monday last week. Our sewer line was plugged with roots…