Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. I am thankful for mine, including many more who are not pictured. I am thankful for their health and am grateful for good friends and a warm home. As always, I am also thankful for good food! What’s on your menu today? Here is ours: Baked brie with […]
Category: Family Fun
Please allow me to introduce the newest Goldsberry: Finn. Finn is a three month old Sheepadoodle puppy, a cross between an Old English Sheepdog and a Poodle. After years of asking for a puppy, Jameson and Harper finally won. And so it was that Finn River came to be a Goldsberry one month ago. Then […]
Good morning from beautiful October in Colorado. I hope you have a hot cuppa in your hands and that your day will feel satisfying. Here’s a little “three things” update about each of us lately, plus a bonus at the end.
October is the best, isn’t it? The beginning of cozy season … Welcome to our fall home! Happy Autumn to you!
Earlier this month, my beautiful parents celebrated fifty years of marriage. To honor the occasion, they invited their most dear friends to come together for a weekend here in Colorado. When I look back upon this year and those special days for my parents, I will do so with a great amount of gratitude. I […]
Welcome to sultry August. How does this month make you feel? Depending on where you live, it could mean another glorious and uninterrupted month of summer. Here, it means it’s time to get back to reality. It means school is right around the bend. We are wrapping up summer break, checking off a few things […]
I have been traveling to the tip of Wisconsin for more than thirty-five years. My brother and I would load up into the minivan, dad at the wheel and mom navigating, and leave our suburban Chicago house to head to the Door every other year or so of my childhood. Once you get past Sturgeon […]
We spent the last couple of weeks settling into summer. It feels good to be home. It’s green and breezy and slower. Here’s a smattering of what we have been up to: Growing: Puzzling: Summer Eating: Library Visits and Picnics Celebrating the best Daddy: Slipping and sliding: Reading and writing: This morning, we wake up […]
Happy Father’s Day to the dads and dad figures who make our lives so beautiful. I hope you spend today doing something you love, with the people you love. This year is bittersweet. There are not too many words to share. But I do have a few, in recognition of the fathers in my life, […]
Harper Grace, you have been alive for a decade. Wow! Just as you amazed me from the moment you arrived, you continue to amaze me (and your dad and all of your family). I watched you this evening, carrying on conversations about all kinds of things. You, with your tall elegance, held your presence in […]
