This past month has been a blur due to our jam-packed schedules and the fact that the girls really aren’t home long in the evenings (the bus drops them off close to 5 p.m.). It really did catch me off guard when the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas seemed like only a week. We were [...]

We made our annual trek to Minnesota for the Thanksgiving holiday this year. Mike picked up the girls from school while I made the finishing touches on our laundry basket luggage, and then we left shortly after. I can’t tell you what a relief it is now to know that we only have to travel [...]

The girls can be quite clever sometimes. My Amazon princesses are simply divine. I crocheted earflap hats for the girls last winter, but I don’t think I ever posted the one I made for Mimi (maybe Annie’s, too). We dug them up from the winter archives, and the girls were quite pleased to see them [...]