Kristin's family was out of town this weekend, and half of our household was under the weather, so our Sunday was not the usual kind of...

Back to earlier wake-ups and Morning Time and poetry and Mozart and co-op and The Vikings and The History of Medicine and narrations a...

"Autumn is the mellower season,  and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits." ~ Samuel Butler Autumn is the seas...

... supposed to be a "vacation" week because Ron was off from work, although we didn't plan to do a big trip, just a day trip...

Kati continues to hone her photography skills, and has to look no further than her own family for subjects.  She has five adorable nieces an...

Didn't I just say in last week's Sunday Snapshots , "Thus ends the crazy August birthday season?" Well, yes, I did.  But...

Oh what beautiful words of truth these are, spoken by Charles Hadley Spurgeon in a sermon "Rest for the Laboring" in 1876.  So bea...

As I prefer to observe the seasons unscientifically (posh to all the talk of equinoxes and solstices), I have considered this last week of...

Because I like an index of sorts to order my thoughts, I have created this reference page to all the recipes I have featured here over the s...

Last week, Mom, my sister Linda, Kati, Bekah, and I made our annual trek to the beach for a day of family fun in the sun.   The sur...

Today's post is the last one in my series on summer salads.  But wait!  Did I really sneak in an autumn salad here at the end?  ...

When three generations of women   celebrate birthdays within a span of eleven days they decide to get together and share the cake and t...

I'm not talking about dinner leftovers, although I love those.  I'd much rather have some reheated soup or some salad for lunch than...

On June 3, my daughter  Kristin announced The Dress Project Summer Challenge .  I immediately put on my thinking cap, but it took me (actua...