With Great Joy

The library has beckoned us several times over the course of the summer.  Here are three of our favorite picture books: The King of Littl...

I am ever-so-happily reading again, after a 6-month hiatus!  And I am so enraptured with words (how I love them!) and sentences and thoug...

For our 18th wedding anniversary, Mark gave me $18 to spend on books, and $18 to spend on music.  It's a fun gift!  Last week I sat on o...

This week we cleaned out our bedroom.  This is a major feat.  Some of you may have nice and tidy bedrooms, but we positively do NOT.  Our ro...

This weekend marks eighteen years of marriage to my man.  Eighteen!   Years ago, when we were dating, I asked God if Mark was *the one*.  ...

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...

Here's our garden right after planting- towards the end of May: I don't have a recent photo, but things are happily growing!  T...