Category: Family Life

January 11, 2019

Christmas Recap

Christmas this year was a little more calm and homey than usual. But it was…

December 28, 2018

Today is Ely’s “inside-out day.” She’s been on the outside as long as she was…

December 22, 2018

I’ve been waiting for Silas to experience total absorption in a book. I knew that…

December 12, 2018

I took the kids to their first book signing. Jan Brett came to JMU on…

December 9, 2018

Over the summer, we got a membership at the Frontier Culture Museum. I love this…

December 4, 2018

A few years ago, I saw a blog or something where a family had written…

November 18, 2018

My children are blessed with a large and generous family–which means that every year, as…

November 14, 2018

As is traditional, we went trick-or-treating with Myers, Laura, Arthur, and Lillian. This year’s special…

November 3, 2018

Petra’s selection for the book quilt when she turned five was Everyone Poops. So that’s…

November 2, 2018

Petra felt that she needed to tell everybody at her party that she was not…