grateful hearts

Thanksgiving passes quickly. A short holiday squeezed in before Black Friday, Christmas shopping and Advent festivities. Perhaps it is the ...

the big zero-one

Our youngest celebrated her one year birthday last weekend.   Born last year the day after thanksgiving.  Thanksgiving ti...

time to read more Lewis

"The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exac...

tea time

Last weekend we hosted a tea party for Margaret's birthday. A couple weeks in advance she passed out invitations to her little fri...

now we are six

There is now a six year old amongst us. Terribly cute, sweet & sensitive, avid tree climber, cheerful helper, lover of ho...