Hello! It’s September! Just like that, our sweet summer doggy paddle transitioned right to treading in six feet of water. Our heads are still above the surface, though. I think. We started school, and the kiddos are happy campers! Harper is in class with a group of good friends and a sweet-as-honey fifth grade teacher. […]
We are fully in B2S mode around here! The supplies have been purchased, the teacher’s gifts are ready, snacks and ziplock baggies are busting out of cabinets, and pencils are sharp. Our kiddos have one more week of summer fun with their Grandparents (ahem, thank you Grams and Gramps) while Jason and I head back […]
Happy Saturday! It’s a great day for monster cookies, and these are our favorite! Last week, we delivered a big batch to Nana’s office at the high school where she works, as per back to school tradition. These are a crowd pleaser, and the recipe makes a big, big batch. Keep this in your back […]
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 […]
There was a time I had subscriptions to multiple magazines at one time. Though I am down to only two at the moment (Food Network and Yankee), I still find myself eyeing the racks at grocery stores and bookstores. They’re such a colorful feast for the eyes. Over the years, I have also managed to […]
Harper has read some wonderful books over the course of the last few months. Some, she shares with Jason or me, and some she reads on her own. She has a knack for picking interesting titles. When I asked her how she chooses her reads, she said she likes topics about what’s happening in the […]
Jason was born and raised a Cornhusker – brought up in a close knit community with 10+ aunts and uncles and countless cousins and lived simply and happily, running back and forth between his house and the soccer field across the street. Though Jason and his parents have been Coloradans for some time now, you […]
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 […]
Recently, the kids and I cleaned out bookshelves, making hard decisions about which books we felt ready to donate, and creating room for new ones. We ended up with a sizable stack that we were ready to pass along to others. We love to give books to friends or donate them to Good Will or […]
Hello reader friends. How are your book-stacks evolving? Mine’s bigger somehow. Summertime means extra reading minutes for me, so even though I have taken titles off the stack, my little book-buying habit persists. Yesterday, we were on a flight home; I finished one book and pulled out the next, carefully placing the former gently into […]
