We’ve received more ornaments from families since I last reported. Our tree is now filled with so much new sentimentality, whimsy and so many stories, thanks to you all! With every package that arrived, we all gathered and opened the ornaments together and read the stories or notes inside. One family even sent a bird…
Category: happy stuff
A Little Picture and Poem by Victoria
Presents have boxes Presents have bows You won’t get a present If you bite my toes Happy Thursday!
Happy Holidays from the Real Us!
Every holiday season, we have a tradition of dressing all the kids up in some fancy clothes and taking them someplace suitably festive to take holiday pictures. Sometimes it’s a nearby casino resort that puts up an indoor sleigh for photos. We take pictures and then go to their buffet restaurant for dinner. Sometimes it’s…
Meet Felicity from Thin Air
Have you heard of this sweet month-long online activity? Hello! We’d like you to meet Felicity. She is six and three quarters and has a big imagination. She loves magic tricks and making things with her hands. Felicity comes from a city high up in the clouds called Thin Air. This December, we’re taking her…
An Impromptu Ball
The other night, Annalee announced that she would be holding a ball the next day. We had the whole day to prepare. In the morning, there was a tea party with tiny sandwiches and fancy water. Later, there were invitations and party plans. When the time came for the ball, I brought out my wedding…
Making Your Mom Cave
My sweetie sent me this article about how to make your own Mom Cave today and I thought the advice was worth sharing. Years ago I had my own den to hide out in, but over time I moved on to give that space over to children. My “cave” is now a corner of our…
Go Take a Hike
We’ve done a lot of hiking lately, something we don’t get to do too much of in our flat little town surrounding by cornfields. I have to say that it feeds our souls like nothing else. We have had a habit for years of stopping by libraries of whatever nearby towns we travel to in…
Sort of Wordless Wednesday
I love the idea of Wordless Wednesday but I’m too yappy to possibly go without speaking in a whole post and there are too many pictures I love from the past few days to narrow it to only one. So this is my (not really, kinda) Wordless Wednesday entry, but with extra pics. I’ve never…
Magical Landscaping
We’ve been lucky enough to go visit at Magical Mama Lonni’s house the past couple of weeks when we’ve been in her neck of the woods and I was so delighted by her whimsical, wonderful, child-friendly yard that I asked if I could take pictures. Of course she said yes, because she’s nice like that. …
…And Now for Something Completely Different!
Have you seen Your Morning Adorable yet? This fun feature highlights a different darling video or photograph each time, from a miniature horse foal playing with a giant ball to baby bunnies twitching their noses while sitting in paper cups to the kitten who hasn’t quite got the hang of playing yet. What a lovely…