I have a bit of an addiction to books. I don’t get to read them for myself as often as I’d like, but the book section is always one of my first stops at the thrift store. I came home with these treasures just the other day. The Boy Knight, by G.A. Henty It doesn’t have a printing date, but… Read More »Thrifting, Watching, Reading
Emma and Sophie helped me plant bulbs last fall. Emma had asked what we were planting and I told her tulips, and that they would bloom after the snow melted. So once the snow finally disappeared, Emma would ask, “When will our lips grow?” The other morning, just in time for Mother’s Day, she looked out the window and said,… Read More »Mom, Our Two Lips are Blooming!
My stitching with rope as a way to focus has been exactly what I needed and didn’t know. I’ve been making, and experimenting, and, well, playing, with the rope. Playing with shapes and thread colors, and moving into playing with colors through natural dyes – only turmeric and strawberry so far, but I’m so excited about the possibilities. Some of… Read More »rope therapy
My goodness I’ve been absent for such a long while! We find ourselves to be in a season full of so much potential change. I find my thoughts spinning out of control at times, as one decision nearly made presents even more changes and choices to be thought out. So many things to be considered in every possible path. So… Read More »Thoughts Spinning
I read just the other day that the U.S. has 3.1% of the world’s children, but buys 40% of the world’s toys. That’s pretty eye opening. We’ve been doing our own sorting and purging here for the last long time. We still have toys, but sometimes I wonder why. Especially when Silas and I play with a couple of Olaf… Read More »who needs toys
Last week when the Littles asked if they could please sew, I wasn’t too hard pressed to come up with something. A couple of colors of felt, a bit of embroidery floss, a cookie cutter set for the pattern, and we were off stitching away for the afternoon. Emma had a bit of trouble remembering to put her… Read More »sewing hearts
Do you see anything wrong with this picture? I was washing up the breakfast dishes, and far outside my kitchen window I saw something that shouldn’t be. Some things were walking where they shouldn’t have been. (Abby, my faithful companion, loves having some work to do. Her presence will stop a goat in its tracks.) Now, in the spring, summer… Read More »wrong side of the fence
I’ve been doing quite a bit of rearranging lately – moving furniture in the living room, rearranging the Littles’ bedroom to make room for all three of them, and trying to create a bit of creative space for us all. That last bit of rearranging was my most recent, and involved moving all my fabric, which unearthed some fabric in… Read More »make me jammies
(Babcia. It’s Polish. It means Grandmom. There are other ways people spell it, and lots of ways people pronounce it. We say “bah’-chee”. I love hearing my oldest granddaughter call me that.) Over five years ago, when I was just a few months pregnant with Sophie, my 6th child, our oldest daughter and son-in-law announced that they were expecting their… Read More »on being Babcia
About 2 years ago (I think it was 2 years ago, it might have been 3), my husband had 4 days off from work. And we had recently had a bit of a leak in our dining room ceiling that was caused by a certain child who forgot that the shower curtain belongs inside the tub when taking a shower. … Read More »A Little Blue, and So Happy About It