Daryl has been on the lookout for an old fashioned screen door for a play he’s putting on in September. Last week, he spotted one by the street for trash pick-up and snagged it. When he got it home, he realized it seemed to be made for very tiny people (!) and would not work…
Category: happy stuff
Adventuring
My dishes went unwashed today, I didn’t make the bed, I took his hand and followed Where his eager footsteps led. Oh yes, we went adventuring, My little son and I, Exploring all the great outdoors Beneath the summer sky. We waded in a crystal stream, We wandered through a wood. My kitchen wasn’t swept…
Fashion Choices
One of the things I love about children is their fashion bravery. There is nothing quite as wonderful as taking a walk with a winged princess, a superhero or a small child wearing 18 separate patterns. Here’s how my boys dressed for an evening stroll yesterday. Note: It was not raining. I smiled the whole…
Happy Pics
I’m back! Sorry to be gone so long and so quiet! I promise to get back to sharing neat stuff tomorrow. In the meantime, here’s a few pics of our week in Nebraska that make me smile. 🙂 Here’s to good friends, field trips, silly fun, English chocolate, dancing in the rain and finding everyday…
The Little Things
The kids made me up lists of why they love me for Mother’s Day (I’m a sucker for gratuitous flattery!) and they really made my day. They were also a good reminder of what matters to my kiddos. Sample entries of Anna’s: You keep your promises, you make us smoothies, you take us camping, you…
Rock Cuties
I just stumbled onto these pictures that Victoria took last summer when she was staying with Magical Mama Tiffany and her family. How’s this for cheap, easy and delightful fun? 🙂 She and her friend Judith, who was visiting from Texas, made all of these little folks… Now if it would only stop raining long…
Play Trees!
I have heard of training apple trees against walls to make beautiful patterns but I had never heard of this sort of tree manipulation until now. Check out this plan for a living playground made from living trees! Apparently it’s fairly common to tie young trees into knots and such to make interesting shapes years…
Lions and Tigers and Bears Can’t Compare
You can take a small boy to the zoo and show him tigers and rhinos and black bears and emus… But if he finds out that a peacock will come this close when you’ve accidentally dropped two Cheerios… Nothing else can possibly compare! Zoos are fabulous, but I love that kids can often be just…
Beauty in Parking Lots
Victoria has a new (to her) camera and has been itching to go to a greenhouse with it. The other day she saw one in the parking lot of the grocery store and she ducked in for 10 minutes of snapping while I picked up goodies for lunch. My sweetie came back a few minutes…
Happiness Is…
Art with the neighbors… Picnics in the back yard… Digital cameras… Ten year old gourmet cooks… Zany photo shoots… Daddy time… Playing in so much mud that the tub looks like this after Mama hoses you off… What’s making you happy these days?