Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. For once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language; let’s sto...

Every year as we snuggle down during Advent and try to spend the long winter nights together with stories and baking and wholesome good work...

  I wish I had taken a picture of the tree when all the leaves were still clinging to the branches.  Blanketing the ground, though, t...

Last weekend we took a little family day and headed out to Astoria on the Oregon Coast.  We'd never really explored this town before.  A...

As in year's past, we've been collecting all the gorgeous colors of Autumn on our occasional nature walks.  We dipped our leaves in ...

"Mommy, why do they call it a tutu?...                     Why don't they just call it a four?" (And she hasn't even...

For over ten years I have loved this old house.  We've made many changes over time, replacing most of the windows, adding skylights...