With Great Joy

My apologies for the delay in getting a new post up, friends.  It has just been busy around here.  Mark and I were able to get away for a fe...

I'm sure I've mentioned that breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. I almost always eat different things than the kids-- I'l...

Strawberry bed #1   Waiting for some weeding attention.  ;) Mark and Ella, working on a puzzle.  I love these two.   Sourdough br...

This morning I was up early-- our days go s o much better when I am-- and exercised, had a quiet time, and showered.  The girls were arguing...

Look, photos!  (I just uploaded them straight into blogger ( thank you, Tamara , for the idea ), so the technical issues with Flickr/Yahoo r...

Well.  I was all set to write a new post a few days ago and went to upload my photos to Flickr (so I could then pull them into my blog post;...

1. The other night I was asleep by 9:30 and slept till 5:30.  I was awake briefly and then went back to sleep until 8:15. (This NEVER happ...

I knew when we planted our garden this spring that I didn't want to do a lot of canning.  It's just a lot of work , and I was tir...

This week stretches ahead of us with literally NOTHING on our calendar: just a whole string of days at home with no school, no evening enga...