While not technically summer, the very warm, sunny weather of late has been pointing us in that direction. The girls and I have cleared away the spring table and begun to gather items for our summer table. It’s just beginning to take shape – rocks from a nature hike, sweet alyssum from the yard, beeswax [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 29th, 2009
Tum Tum and I are home from my grandmother’s funeral in rural Indiana. It was a good visit with relatives and friends, and much needed opportunity to say our farewells to Grandma.
I feel very blessed to be given some table cloths that belonged to my grandmother, and her mother before her. Every time [...]
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Posted in Locally grown, Outings on May 23rd, 2009
Saturday’s ten-block walk to the Farmer’s Market in the blissful sunshine. I think it will become a weekly ritual. We even got to watch the high school marching band rehearsing as they marched around the market. It was a big thrill for the girls.
Yay for Farmer’s Market season!!!
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A lovely family from our church welcomed their second child, so the children and I took them dinner yesterday evening (well, afternoon, really…) Thought we’d include a little something for Baby Nicolas. How about ribbon-tie baby shoes? (Yes, I realize that’s a thumb in the bottom of the picture. Please just ignore it. I wasn’t [...]
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Little Hen picked me a red clover bouquet and slipped it into my knitting basket on our morning walk to the park. “Weeds” growing wild outside the park made a handsome centerpiece on our dining table. I love how children find beauty in places we overlook.
Where do your children find unexpected beauty?
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Posted in Knitting on May 17th, 2009
After a busy morning volunteering in the nursery at church, then a trip across town to a babyshower, the late afternoon was spent sitting in the sunshine. Little Hen doodled fairies and spidewebs in her notebook, Firecracker thumbed through library books, and the baby napped next to me on the sofa. I was doing some [...]
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Posted in Playing/ Free Exploration on May 17th, 2009
Tum Tum leaning in for a smooch, and our poor poodle trying to recoil. He’s determined to love on her, and she tries her best to tolerate his presence.
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Pictures from our trip to the Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens in Woodland, WA this past weekend with my husband’s mother, sister, and our niece. If you have never been, we highly recommend the trip – just a short drive North from Portland.
I can hardly wait until next year, when our yard will be ready to [...]
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Posted in Crafting, Giving on May 12th, 2009
Some thrifted linens we sent my mother for Mother’s Day, amongst other things.
And for my husband’s sister, mother, and grandmother, we made earrings (Firecracker picked out the beads), and coupons (from repurposed Starbucks gift cards sleeves my sister gave us for crafting) for things like babysitting, a morning at the zoo with the girls (lunch [...]
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Ever since I was a girl, and our neighbors in San Antonio grew lemons in their backyard, I have wanted a lemon tree of my own. But of course, in the Pacific Northwest, planting a citrus grove in your backyard is not realistic.
Our new home has a large L-shaped bank of windows in the front [...]
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